Luigi Cabrini is the Director of the UNWTO Sustainable Development Department, whose mission is to promote the sustainable development of tourism in line with the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism with special focus on the Millennium Development Goals. The Department undertakes research, develops manuals and provides guidance and training to member States and other tourism stakeholders on sustainable tourism policies and their application to tourism destinations.
He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Pisa and has completed postgraduate courses in International Law, History and Economics. From 1978 to 1982 he worked as a journalist and editor in Rome. In 1982 he began his career in the United Nations, occupying various positions in Mexico, Pakistan, Somalia, Switzerland, Poland and Spain and joined UNWTO in 2002 as the Regional Representative for Europe. Luigi Cabrini speaks fluently Italian, English, French and Spanish and has a basic knowledge of Polish and Russian.

Daniel Scott has BSc in Geography from Brandon University (1991), an MA in Geography from the University of Waterloo (1993) and a PhD in Geography from York University (1998). He is currently a Canada Research Chair in Global Change and Tourism and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Ontario. His current research programme focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change; tourism-environment interactions; climate change and tourism/recreation; climate change and protected areas/parks; demographic change and recreation/tourism; “snowbirds’ tourism.

Daniel is the chair of the joint WMO-UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Expert Team on Climate and Tourism (2006-2010) and has been a co-chair of the International Society of Biometeorology-Commission on Climate Tourism and Recreation since 2002. He has also been a contributing author/expert reviewer for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group II) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports. He was the lead author of the 2007 report “Change and Tourism: Responding to the Challenges” published by the UNWTO and testified to a US Senate Committee on the issue of climate change and outdoor recreation-tourism.

He is the author/co-author of numerous publications, including 49 books, chapters and reports, 40 papers in refereed journals, 19 published conference papers and 108 conference/presentations.

Dr Geoffrey Love is a former Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), member of the IPCC Bureau and a contributor to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. He is also a former CEO of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and has served the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in a variety of capacities over the past thirty years. Dr Love is currently the WMO’s Director, Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department.

Jean Andrey is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her educational background is in applied climatology and natural hazards. She has three degrees in Geography--from Wilfrid Laurier University (B.A.), University of Calgary (M.Sc.) and University of Waterloo (PhD). She has also worked with a provincial transportation department as a road safety analyst. Her research program is at the interface of transportation geography and the human dimensions of natural hazards/climate change. Current research projects focus on weather-related road crashes, winter road maintenance, and the implications of climate variability and change for paved infrastructure.

Alain Dupeyras is the Head of the Tourism Unit within the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In this role, he provides the strategic direction and manages, with the support of governments, the work of the OECD Tourism Committee. The Tourism Committee examines the efficiency of member countries’ Tourism policies and analyses the main factors of tourism growth and competitiveness, and their implications for policy. The Tourism Committee is actively involved in improving the measurement of tourism services in OECD economies; the Tourism Committee played notably a central role in the development of the Tourism Satellite Account. Mr. Dupeyras also develops active partnerships with non-member economies, the private sector and other stakeholders such as inter-governmental organisations and international networks. Before joining the OECD, Mr. Dupeyras was in charge of tourism and leisure investment-related projects at the SME Development Bank, France.
He graduated from the School of Hotel Management of Paris and from the University du Maine in Economic Sciences. He graduated from the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, specialising in Tourism Management and Economics.

A Scientist by training, Dr. Trotz commenced his University education in Edinburgh , and attained his Doctorate in Organic Chemistry in Toronto , Canada . His career experiences and achievements are wide and varied. He has worked as Director, Science & Technology Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1993 to 1997; as Secretary, Commonwealth Science Council and Science Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretary General, 1991-1997; Secretary-General, National Science Research Council (NSRC), Guyana, 1979-1991; Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Guyana 1976- 1979; Director, Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology in Guyana, 1980-1991.
Since 1997, Dr Trotz, in his capacity as Manager for the GEF-funded CPACC and MACC projects, and the CIDA-funded ACCC project, has been giving direction to the region’s efforts to build capacity for climate change adaptation. He has presented more than seventy (70) papers/lectures at a range of regional and international fora on climate change issues. Recently Dr Trotz assumed the post of Science Adviser to the recently established Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre. He has been publicly recognized in his country of birth, Guyana with the Golden Arrow of Achievement (AA) in National Honours in 1983 for long and distinguished service in Science and Research., and more recently in Barbados , being inducted as an Honorary Distinguished Fellow of the University of the West Indies . Dr Trotz was a Review Editor for Chapter 16 on Small Island Developing States in The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Sibylle Rupprecht joined the International Road Federation (IRF) in 2005. In 2007 she was appointed Director General. IRF is the only world forum advocating better and safer roads through better road design and construction. It is a unique institution that brings together members active in road infrastructure from both the private and public sectors. IRF promotes roads that are safe, economically viable and ecologically friendly. IRF believes that a sound road infrastructure brings prosperity, fights poverty, furthers education and provides better access to health services.
During the past years and under her guidance, the International Road Federation (IRF), founded in 1948, grew to an important international organisation active in all aspects of road infrastructure, such as the IRF Greenhouse Gas Calculator, the ITS Policy Committee, the Best Practice Guide for Greener Roads, the interagency guidelines for Safe Road Infrastructure and in many more projects. Since the beginning of 2009, the IRF also manages the UK Government financed project ‘global Transport Knowledge Partnership’, which is a unique platform of knowledge sharing for road infrastructure and transport knowledge, with a focus on Africa, Asia and EECCA. Prior to joining the International Road Federation, Sibylle Rupprecht held positions as Director General in a number of international organisations. She also worked as an EU consultant for Swiss based companies and organisations. For more than six years she was a consultant to the international headhunting company Korn/Ferry specialising in financial services and government and non-governmental organisations.
She holds a banking degree and a post-graduate diploma in not-for-profit management from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

JP Ceron is a social scientist (with initially a business school training)who has been working for three decades on environmental issues (mainly in the French context), for the greater part of the time within CIRED (Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, CNRS, Paris), a team which is specialised on climate change issues. He now works at the University of Limoges. The relationship between tourism and climate change are now his main fields of interest. On the last topic, he deals both with the impact and adaptation dimensions but also with the potential effects of mitigation policies (transport…) on tourism. He is one of the core members of the eCLAT Network (Experts in climate change and tourism) and has been a Lead Author within the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, dealing there mainly with tourism.