Policy Dialogue: Bioenergy and Development, with Recent Insights from Brazil's Bioenergy/Agro-Industry

The dialogue will be facilitated by Prof. Lee Rybeck Lynd (Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College) & Prof. Luiz A Horta Nogueira (Order of Rio Branco, Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil).

A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1987, Professor Lynd is an expert on utilization of plant biomass for production of energy. Spanning science, technology, and policy domains, and including leading research on fundamental and biotechnological aspects of microbial cellulose utilization. Lee is co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Director of biofuel start-up Enchi Corp., Consolidated Bioprocessing Team Lead for the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, and founder and Executive Committee Chair of the Global Sustainable Bioenergy Initiative.

Prof. Nogueira is a Mechanical Engineer (FEG / Unesp, 1978), Master and Doctor in Mechanical Engineering (FEC / Unicamp, 1981 and 1987). He is (Emeritus) Professor of Thermodynamics at the Federal University of Itajubá until 2014. Visiting scientist at the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1997/1998. Technical Director of the Brazilian Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (1998/2004). Professor at the Latin American Memorial, São Paulo, 2006.  He is a Consultant in energy studies for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and Associate Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Group on Energy Planning at Unicamp. Author of books and articles mainly on energy efficiency and bioenergy.