getting ready... Wednesday's (1/27) Program....

I'm using the blog to get ready for the program and do a bit of research about who we will be meeting on the trip.    


We start on Wednesday with an introduction to topic of Study Tour,  Dr. Camilla Bausch, Ecologic Institute.  I actually visited the Ecologic Institute in Berlin and look forward to meeting Dr. Bausch.  


From the website: http://ecologic.eu/3020


Dr. Camilla Bausch is Head of Climate and Energy at the Ecologic Institute. She leads and works on a number of projects, for example: negotiations on the future UN climate regime post 2012, emissions trading, the improvement of the legal framework for the energy sector. Trained as a lawyer, she has a strong background in legal and institutional analysis, complemented by several years of experience working in interdisciplinary and international settings.


In 2008/2009 Camilla Bausch took a sabbatical to work for Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) in the U.S. House of Representatives. There she worked on climate and energy policies, and contributed to the “Waxman-Markey-Bill” (American Clean Energy and Security Act), which passed the House of Representatives in June 2009.


That evening we have dinner at the BMW Foundation Keynote Speaker: Karsten D. Voigt, Former Member of the German Bundestag.  


It looks like Karsten Voigt now works as the Coordinator of German-American Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy
here


From website: The Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America appointed Coordinators for German-American relations in 1981 on the initiative of the German Government. The German Coordinator's official title is "Coordinator of German-American Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy". Since February 1999 the position has been held by Karsten D. Voigt, former foreign-policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.