Wim Turkenburg

Who is Wim Turkenburg?

Wim C. Turkenburg is Professor and head of department of Science, Technology and Society at the Utrecht University, and he is scientific director of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation of Utrecht University. Also he is a member of the board of the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands. In addition he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Energy Assessment, vice-chairman of the Dutch research programme on CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage, member of the Netherlands Platform Communication on Climate Change, and member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Energy for Sustainable Development. From 1997 to 2004, he was a member of the Council on Housing, Physical Planning, and Environment of the Netherlands. Also he was scientific director of the Utrecht Centre for Energy Research UCE, and a member of the General Energy Council of the Netherlands.

He is author or co-author of many articles and publications on renewable energy, energy system analysis, energy technoly assessment, energy policies, and climate change. He has served on numerous national and international boards and working groups, including the board of the Netherlands' Physical Society, the Dutch division of the International Solar Energy Society, the working group on renewable energy of the World Energy Council, the working group on energy supply mitigation options of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for Development of the United Nations. He also served on the Editorial Board of the World Energy Assessment and was Convening Lead Author of the WEA chapter on Renewable Energy Technologies.