Dr. Clive Lipchin
South Africa, Israel
South Africa, Israel
Clive serves as the director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies’ Center for Transboundary Water Management where he oversees research and development projects, workshops and conferences that focus on transboundary water and environmental problems facing Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. His specialty is in water resources management and policy. Clive has conducted research for a number of international water agencies such as the World Bank, EU, UNDP and USAID and has been involved most recently with the European Union’s Water Initiative project for the Mediterranean region and the USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) program and the Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) program. He also served as the Israeli partner for the USDA funded project – CONSERVE (COordinating Nontraditional Sustainable watER use in Variable climatEs): A Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food and Health.”
Clive’s research and development work has recently focused on cross-border stream restoration and waste water management issues between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and on integrated food, energy and water systems for off-grid communities in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority and the developing world. He is also leading a study in wastewater epidemiology on monitoring the presence of the corona virus in wastewater in Israel and the West Bank as part of an early warning public health program on combatting the spread of the virus in marginalized communities in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Clive also serves as the CEO of Laguna Innovation- www.lagunainnovation.com. The company has developed an innovative off grid and onsite wastewater treatment and reuse technology. The company provides wastewater treatment services to communities, farmers, industry and any other water user that is not connected to a sewer system. The company not only treats the wastewater onsite but returns it to the customer as high quality effluent for irrigation use in agriculture or for any other non-potable use of water. The company has run successful proof of concept pilots in Israel and the West Bank and is now actively working with clients in Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and South Africa.
Clive, a native from South Africa has been living in Israel for over twenty years. He received a BSc degree in zoology at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, a BSc Honors in wildlife management from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, a MSc in desert ecology from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and a PhD in resource ecology management from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.
Roger Philippe Bertozzi
Switzerland, France
Switzerland, France
Roger-Philippe Bertozzi has a solid experience in the aluminium industry. He is the co-founder of the Federation of Aluminium Consumers in Europe ( FACE ), created in 1999 by leading European aluminium transformers to support the competitiveness and the sustainability of the independent EU downstream aluminium industry.
Pierre Henri Guignard
France
France
After studying Economics and Public Affairs,
he joined the Foreign Affairs ministry and served in Peru, Mexico, Canada and the United States and, later..
Ariel Ezrahi
Germany
Germany
Ariel Ezrahi, based in Berlin, is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs where he is working on a range of regional projects and initiatives. Ezrahi is an energy and sustainability diplomacy expert who appears regularly in the media.
Previously, he was the first director of energy at the Office of the Quartet where he shaped all energy aspects from conventional to renewable energy, and sustainability initiatives.
Ezrahi was the architect of the Gas for Gaza project and chaired its task force since inception, where he worked closely with the project’s key international actors, on this cornerstone Palestinian project, in close cooperation with Israel.
Ezrahi was the Energy Adviser to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Quartet Representative. Prior to that role, he worked for international law firms, in the corporate energy field, with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa region.
He holds an M.Phil. in modern Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College), an LLM in international law from Georgetown University, and an LLB from the University of Manchester.
Dr. Hakima El Haité, Chair
Morocco
Morocco
Hakima El HAITE is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of sustainable development, environment and climate change. She has 26 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and businesswoman, as well as an appointed official and international advocate. This experience provides her with a unique ability to identify, communicate and execute environmental policies and projects.
As the former Minister of Environment for the Kingdom of Morocco, EL HAITE updated the national legislative framework and harmonized it with international legislation, realized the national strategy for sustainable development and introduced green growth into national solid waste management and industrial policies.
She was an active negotiator for the framework of The Paris Agreement and was subsequently elected to the Vice Presidency of COP21. She played a major role in bringing COP22 to Morocco and was a central actor in its organization and implementation.
In her capacity as Minister, EL HAITE served as a representative at the UN on climate change. She was chosen by His Majesty Mohammed VI of Morocco to be the Special Envoy, and High-Level Champion of the International Climate Conference (COP 22). She launched the Marrakech Partnership gathering together ministers, governmental negotiators, private sector actors and civil society (seventy-five worldwide coalitions) to build a concerted agenda for action and published with the support of the UNFCCC the first year book.
In her leadership roles EL HAITE traveled worldwide to campaign for the recognition of Climate Change as an urgent national and international issue, and vital necessity to switch from words to action. She succeeded in mobilizing sixty-eight heads of state to attend COP22 and to adhere to the Marrakech Partnership.
Prior to serving as Minister, EL HAITE was the President/CEO of EAU GLOBE, the first environmental engineering firm in Africa and the Middle East which she founded in 1994. EAU GLOBE successfully supported the development of integrated water management strategies throughout Morocco. She worked in the sectors of water, waste water, solid waste management, industrial depollution and institutional and legislative reforms in the field of environment and sustainable development. EL HAITE on behalf of EAU GLOBE was involved in projects in Africa and the Middle East, including those financed by the World Bank.
She serves as an international advisor on high level sustainability projects, currently acting as Special Advisor to President Macky Sall of Senegal on the development of environmental policy solutions for solid waste management and urban planning.
EL HAITE has been recognized internationally for her work. These honors include recognition by US President OBAMA as an innovative entrepreneur in 2010 at The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship held in Washington, D.C.
Currently Appointed by the UN general Secretary as member of the advisory board of Zero waste initiative 2023-2026
2019 and 2023 recognized by times as one of the 100 more influential people in the field of climate change