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Michael is Chief Executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, having founded the company in 2004. Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Energy and is on the Selection Committee for the Zayed Future Energy Prize. Prior to founding New Energy Finance Michael was an entrepreneur, venture capitalist (with Groupe Arnault), and executive, helping to build around 25 successful companies. In the 1990s he acted as Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television, Founding Director of Sports News Television and non-executive director of Interactive Investor. He also spent five years in the London office of McKinsey & Company. He is a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Michael has an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. He was a member of the British Ski Team at the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games and is Chairman of St Marks Hospital Foundation, a medical charity.

Jon has over 20 years' experience of building professional service firms in the financial services industry, serving clients across the US, Europe and Asia. Prior to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Jon's career started with a decade at J P Morgan, supporting their Commodities business and Accenture within their Financial Services practice, including two years helping build the Asian Financial Services practice. This was followed by a decade where Jon was co-founder then CEO of a business consulting firm, m.a.partners, which provided services to the global capital markets community. Jon has a B Eng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering from Nottingham University and has attended professional development classes at Harvard and NYU.

Angus has 18 years' experience as a financial writer at national newspaper level, writing extensively on subjects such as the markets, derivatives, economics and investment, as well as most business sectors, for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, Sunday Business, Sunday Telegraph and The Scotsman. He has also worked part-time for eight years as a senior economist for Centre for Economics and Business Research, and as founder and director of an FSA-authorised financial services company. He holds the Securities Institute's Certificate in Investment Management.

With a background in economics, engineering and finance, Guy has worked extensively in the field of environmental economics, climate change and renewable energy since the early 1990s. In particular he has spent much of his career analysing the theoretical and practical implementation of emissions trading schemes. He has advised numerous companies on the business implications of the Kyoto mechanisms and the EU ETS, and has worked for several governments to help design and implement climate change policies. Guy holds degrees in Economics and Engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK), an MSc in Environmental Policy from Manchester University and is a graduate of the London Business School Corporate Finance Programme. He is also a founding participant and active member of the Carbon Markets & Investor Association and a member of the Barclays Environmental Markets Index Committee.

Before joining Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael was a partner at McKinsey, where he consulted across a range of industries including energy, technology and telecoms. He worked with equipment providers and operators across Europe as well as in Asia and the US. Previously, Michael worked in the UK Department of Energy in the 1980s across a variety of energy policy areas, including one of the very earliest privatisations (Amersham International), as well as deregulation of the gas industry, renewable energy, nuclear policy and the financing and privatisation of the electricity industry. During that period he was also private secretary to both the Minister of State for Energy and the Permanent Secretary.