Dr Daniel Doktor

• Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
• Head of the Working Group Remote Sensing of Ecosystems

Daniel Doktor studied Geography in Münster (Diplom) and afterwards worked at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam. After earning a PhD at Imperial College London – focussing on remote sensing and plant phenology – he started as a PostDoc in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. He now leads the working group Remote Sensing of Ecosystems focussing on the impacts of climate and global change on vegetation deriving e.g. vegetation dynamics and land-use / land-cover or land-use intensities from time series of optical-reflective satellite data. He has been leading several third party funded projects (BMWI, BfN, EU) and was also involved in high-level UFZ strategic processes.

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Dr (rer.-nat.) Kurt P. Günther

Kurt P. Günther studied physics at the University Munich. He finished his thesis about airborne laser fluorescence remote sensing of the ocean at the University of Oldenburg. For more than 25 years he joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR) developing laser fluoro-sensors for vegetation monitoring, algorithms for operational data processing of satellite data (AVHRR, MODIS, MERIS, Landsat), radiative transfer models and global models for biosphere-atmosphere interaction. Now he works as an independent remote sensing consultant.

Jens Hönerhoff

• DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
• Vice President Sustainability

Jens Hönerhoff is energy and process engineer and works since 2007 as senior environmental specialist for the DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, the private sector development financing branch of the KfW group. As vice president for sustainability he is inter alia responsible for the development of the WWF-DEG “Water Risk Filter”, the mapping tool for water risks.

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Prof Gernot Klepper Ph.D.

• Kiel Institute for the World Economy
• Research Area “The Environment and Natural Resources”

Gernot Klepper is an economist and received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. He is a senior researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy where he was for many years head of the Department “Environmental and Resource Economics”. Besides his research activities on climate change, energy, and land use issues, he was and still is involved in numerous advisory functions such as being the chair of the National Committee for Global Change Research (NKGCF) of the German Research Foundation (DFG), deputy chairman of the German Climate Consortium (DKK), the association of the leading climate research institutes in Germany, chair of the board of International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) as well as chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research (UFZ).

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Dr Rafaël Schneider

• Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
• Deputy Director Policy & External Relations
• Coordination Food Security Standard (FSS)

Rafaël Schneider (Dr. rer. nat.) is geographer and works since 2007 for the Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., a private organisation acting in the area of development cooperation and humanitarian aid. As deputy director of the Policy Division and coordinator of the Food Security Standard Project, he addresses development policies related to global food security, rural development, agriculture, nutrition and the Human Right to Food. Before, he has been coordinator at the German Development Service (DED) in N’Djaména (Chad) and senior advisor in a DED-GTZ-Program on rural development in Natitingou (Benin).

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