Symposium

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2A: BUILDINGS – Mobilizing Public and Private Investments in the Built Environment

Moderator

Robert Dixon
Sr. Vice President & Global Head, Energy & Environmental Solutions, Building Automation
Siemens Building Technologies Inc.

Bob Dixon is the senior vice president and global head of Energy Services and Solutions at Siemens Building Technologies, Inc (SBT). SBT helps companies all over the world upgrade their buildings and building components to make them more comfortable, safe, secure, and energy-efficient. Dixon joined the Alliance to Save Energy Board in 2005 and also currently serves as the president of the National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO).

Rapporteur

Peter Love 
Chief Energy Conservation Officer
Ontario Power Authority

Peter Love was appointed Ontario’s first Chief Energy Conservation Officer in April 2005 to head the Conservation Bureau, a division of the Ontario Power Authority.  The mandate of the Conservation Bureau is to provide leadership in electricity conservation and demand management and advance a conservation culture in Ontario.

Mr. Love has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the area of energy efficiency.  As the Executive Director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, he was a leading advocate for energy efficiency and its related benefits to the economy and the environment. Early in his career Mr. Love worked as a project coordinator for Pollution Probe with the team that developed the concept “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, and co-founded a coalition to advocate responsible waste management policies and programs.

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Speakers

Vincent Berrutto
Head of Unit Energy Efficiency
Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI)

Vincent Berrutto is Head of Unit at the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI), a newly set up organisation managing the Intelligent Energy Europe programme under powers delegated by the European Commission. His Unit supports more than 200 on-going European projects, across 30 countries, to unlock the potential for energy efficiency in buildings, appliances, industry, transport, and communities. Mr Berrutto is an engineer with a PhD in building sciences.

Evangelina Hirata
Deputy Director General
National Housing Commission (CONAVI)

Evangelina Hirata Nagasako is Deputy Director General at the National Housing Commission (Comisión Nacional de Vivienda—Conavi) in Mexico. She has been involved in different construction, engineering and urban planning companies in the private sector in Mexico and Spain. In the governmental sector, she has held various positions in the Secretariat of Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social) and the National Housing Development Commission. An urban architect by training, her projects have participated in various international competitions, such as the International Union of Architects competition at Warsaw and the design competition at Bilbao, Spain. She has also given conferences in Canada, the United States and Japan.

Thomas Lowery
Vice President of Service & Solutions - Europe & Africa
Johnson Controls, Inc.

Tom is currently the VP and GM of Service & Solutions in the Europe & Africa divisions of Johnson Controls. Tom started with Johnson Controls in a technical sales position. After 9 years, he left to become president of a small private college. After 3 years, in this position he joined Mettler Toledo as VP of Global Service. After 4 years, Tom returned to Johnson Controls. Tom has a BS of Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Grammatiki Tsingou
Director General Projects Directorate
European Investment Bank

Grammatiki Tsingou is currently the Director General of the Projects Directorate. Prior to this position she was the Director of the South-East Europe Department, which covers Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, and Alternate Director for the EIB on the Board of the EBRD from 2000-2003. In 2001she was the Senior Cadre for lending in Poland and the Baltic States. She played a prominent role in the development of cooperation with Russia, and the first loans in St Petersburg, as well as in preparing for the Bank’s activity in Ukraine. She received a degree in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc in Quantitative Economics from Bristol University.