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Description
Ada Ámon is currently the director of
the Energy Club which is an independent, non-governmental,
not-for-profit group working for sustainable energy policy.
After
graduation at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1993 she
started to work for the Energy Club as a volunteer. In 1994 she was
contracted as the Hungarian resident consultant on energy policy for
the International Institute for Energy Conservation, London. In 1996
she joined the CEE Bankwatch Network as the Hungarian Energy
Coordinator. Since 1998 she has been the director of the Energy Club,
which is a leading NGO and think tank group in CEE on energy policy
issues. Among other programmes, the Energy Club organised courses,
trainings and seminars for the new generations of CEE NGO activists on
energy and environment related themes over the last decade.
Since
April 2004 she is a member of the National Environmental Council, a
body which is the official advisory group of the Hungarian Government.
She was an invited lecturer several times at the Central European
University besides other Hungarian universities. She has been on the
advisory board of many national and regional energy programmes, such as
the International Finance Corporation, the Hungarian Energy Centre. She
has been the delegated person for the consumer protection body of the
Hungarian Energy Office for many years. She has been involved in
numerous international campaigns and was the initiator of successful
policy recommendations over the past decade. Energia Klub - with her
leadership - has been working for and together with the Green/EFA group
of the European Parliament, OkoInstitute, Climate Action Network,
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and many more. At the moment she
is the Chair of the AGREE.NET.
Her publications cover the
problem of nuclear energy, climate change, general energy policy
questions and the international financing of energy investments. She
was an invited author of the Jo’Burg Memo, published in 2002 by the
Heinrich Boll Foundation (Berlin) and recently the editor of the
Sustainable Energy Strategy for Hungary (2006).
Lecture:
lecture Statement from a representative of regional NGOs as author at Conference on Climate Change: An Opportunity for Growth, Brdo pri Kranju 2007, 3067 views |