Speakers

Abyd Karmali
Managing Director & Global Head of Carbon Emissions, Merrill Lynch
President, CMIA

Abyd Karmali has worked for 18 years on climate change and the carbon
markets and serves as President of the Carbon Markets and Investors
Association and member of Her Majesty's Treasury Carbon Market Expert Group.
He is the point person for carbon business opportunities across Merrill
Lynch's geographies and financial products and serves on the firm's
Environmental Sustainability Working Group. Mr. Karmali has provided
strategic advice on the commercial risks and opportunities posed by carbon
emissions constraints to dozens of European, US, and Asian companies in the
FT Global 500 as well as to several government agencies and regional
development banks.

Mr. Karmali holds a M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and was previously employed with ICF International
in Washington DC, Toronto, and London where he served most recently as
Managing Director, Europe. In 1996-97 he was Climate Change Officer at the
United Nations Environment Programme's Industry office in Paris and
participated in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations.
His voluntary sector activity includes work with the agencies of the Aga
Khan Development Network and a three-year stint on the Board of Trustees of
Focus Humanitarian Assistance Europe Foundation. He is a running, football,
world music, adventure travel, and gastronomy enthusiast.