Dr. Pierce Riemer is the Director General of WPC Energy. His role as CEO of the WPC Energy involves managing the 70 member countries (representing over 97% of the worlds oil and gas production and consumption) and international committees and liaison with other international organizations and the UN. He is a climate change expert and represents WPC Energy at UNFCCC meetings (has attended from COP1) and at the UNFC Sustainability Committee and UNECE Reserves and Resources committees. In addition, he sits on the board of the Energy Access Platform with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). He joined WPC Energy after 8 years with the International Energy Agency, where he set up the GHG Programme in 1990, responsible for initiating carbon dioxide capture and storage activities. His responsibilities included, technical programme, demonstration plants, JI, AIJ, CDM activities, and studies relating to greenhouse gas emissions from all sources at the IEA. During this time he also set up a monitoring programme for the Sleipner activities. He was the official Liaison with Oakridge National Laboratory (USA) for ETDE and was in charge of producing expert documents for PROMPT (The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies), for DGXVII and DGXIII of the EU.Before joining the IEA, Dr Riemer was with the British Coal Corporation, where he was involved in the Environmental and later the Corporate Planning Branch. Prior to this he worked on environmental projects and power generation and utililisation studies for the National Coal Board and Coal Products Ltd.Dr Riemer holds a Degree in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Catalysis (Gas to Liquids). He is a Chartered Chemist, a Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of The Energy Institute.Dr Riemer is the author of over 200 technical papers, more than 60 magazine features and 15 books. He also holds 8 patents.