Dr. Barbara Dubach, founder and managing director of engageability, has a longstanding, international industry and management experience with a flair for energy- and resource- intensive industries. She has a broad knowledge with the following core competencies: strategy and materiality assessment, risk and crisis management, stakeholder engagement, facilitation and moderation of events and stakeholder dialogues, evaluation and impact assessment as well as knowledge transfer and communication. Between 1997 and 2010 she held various management positions at Holcim Ltd (today LafargeHolcim) in Switzerland and abroad during the last 7 years as Senior Vice President for Sustainable Development Coordination and Corporate Social Responsibility and before that she was seconded to the WBCSD as Advocacy and Communications Director.

She holds a Ph.D. in Managing Environmental Communication in Multinational Companies, University of St. Gallen and a M.A. in economics and business, University of Zurich. 

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Dr Tomas Kåberger is affiliate professor of Industrial Energy Policy at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg and Industrial Growth Executive at the Scandinavian office of InnoEnergy. In addition he serves as Executive Board Chairman of Renewable Energy Institute in Tokyo and as senior advisor to GEIDCO in Beijing. He is appointed by the Swedish government as member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council and to the board of Vattenfall. The Norwegian Government has appointed him to the board of the Research Council of Norway. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and The Swedish Association of Energy Economists. He has held leading positions in companies working with bio-, wind- and solar energy. In the 1990s he was a member of the government energy commission launching the re-regulated electricity market in Sweden. From 2008-2011 he was Director General of the Swedish Energy Agency.

Catherine Saget is a Chief of Unit with the Research department of the International Labour Office (ILO). She was the lead author of the ILO yearly flagship report World and Employment Social Outlook 2018 Greening with Jobs (www.ilo.org/weso-greening) and the 2019 report on the impact of heat stress on productivity and decent work. She has also contributed to the setting up of a unit on wages within the ILO and had worked on employment policies at times of economic crisis. She was the Senior Employment Specialist of the ILO Office in Delhi. As an Economist with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, she participated in the OECD thematic review on youth employment policies. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).