Minister IMELS
CORRADO CLINI
Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea - Republic of Italy
1975 – 1989 Director of the Department of Environmental Protection and Public Health, Venice-Porto Marghera
Since 1990 Director General of the Ministry for the Environment
Head of the national programmes on industry and environment, energy and environment, transport and environment, research and development of new technologies for energy saving and natural resources conservation;
Head of the international cooperation programs (431 projects in 67 countries) for the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources, the dissemination of renewable energies and clean technologies, the institutional capacity building in environmental governance.
Chairman of the inter-ministerial task force of the Italian Government for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
Head of the technical Italian delegations to the United Nations Conventions and Protocols for the Protection of the Global Environment.
Chairman of the G8 Task Force Renewable Energy 2000-2001
Member of the Bureau of the European Environment Agency 2003-2008
Chairman of the Board of the Regional Environment Center of Budapest 2004-2009
Chairman of the G8 - Global Bioenergy Partnership since 2006
Chairman of the European Environment and Health Committee since 2007
Visiting professor at the Department for Environmental Sciences and Engineering –
Tshingua University – Beijing
Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Member of the Clinton Global Initiative
Editor “Sustainable Development and Environmental Management. Experiences and Case Studies”, by Springer, 2008