Board of Trustees

Manuel Collares-Pereira

EEF Trustee

Manuel Collares Pereira is Full Professor at the University of Évora, Chair BES Renewable Energies, Director of IPES-Instituto Português de Energia Solar, founder and President of SUN AID and consultant of...

Amalio de Marichalar

EEF Trustee

Amalio-Joaquín de Marichalar studied Law, Political Sciences and Sociology at Madrid’s Complutense University, then undertook a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Business. He has promoted a number of highly...

Monika Griefahn

EEF Trustee

Right Livelihood Award Foundation / European Environment Foundation

Monika Griefahn is a founding member of Greenpeace Germany and was Co-CEO (1980-1983). From 1984-1990 she worked on the board of Greenpeace Internat. From 1990-1998 she was Minister of the Environment in the...

Rainer Griesshammer

EEF Trustee

Rainer Grießhammer is a chemist, member of the management board of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Freiburg and director of the future heritage foundation (Stiftung Zukunftserbe). Leader of the research...

Peter W. Heller

EEF Trustee

Peter W. Heller worked as Deputy Mayor for Environmental Protection of the City of Freiburg, 1993-1997 he served as Chairman of he Executive Committee of ICLEI, Cities for Sustainability. Peter W. Heller is...

Sigrid Jannsen

EEF Trustee

Sigrid Jannsen’s activities in renewable energies started in 1974. Her scientific focus was on waste water treatment and in particular on the energetic use of biological wastes. After her retirement Sigrid...

Jeremy Leggett

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Jeremy Leggett, author of The Energy of Nations, is founder and chairman of Solarcentury, a VC-backed solar company, and founder and Chairman of SolarAid, an African solar lighting charity set up with 5% of...

Antonio Luque

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Antonio Luque is Dr. Engineer in Telecommunication. Chair Professor of Electronic Technology at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in which he founded the Institute of Solar Energy, and led it for over 30...

Giovanna Melandri

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Giovanna Melandri is an Italian politician and member of the Italian Environmental Organization Legaambiente. She is also a member of the Democratic Left party and former Minister for Youth and Sports in...

Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Virginia Sonntag-O’Brien has more than 20 years’ international experience in the areas of energy and climate change at the interfaces between policy and finance, and public and private sectors, particularly...

Simon Trace

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Simon Trace has over 30 years’ experience working on technology and international development, across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He was the CEO of Practical Action from 2005 to 2015 and was associated...

Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Maritta Koch-Weser has a distinguished career spanning more than three decades in international development, as anthropologist and environmentalist. She has extensive field experience in Latin America, South...

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker is Co-President of the Club of Rome and member of the International Resource Panel of UNEP on Sustainable Resource Use. He worked as a professor for inter-disciplinary biology;...

Paul Walker

EEF Trustee

Green Cross International

Paul Walker, United States, is the International Director of the Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) Program for Green Cross International (GCI). The ESS Program is an international effort to...

Eicke R. Weber

EEF Trustee

European Environment Foundation

Eicke R. Weber was Director of the Fraunhofer Institut for Solar Energy Systems ISE (till Dec. 2016). Since Jan. 2017 he serves as director of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore BEARS....