Kjetil Stake
Managing Director & Head of Board
Mr. Stake is the Managing Director and Head of the Board of The Sahara Forest Project Foundation and holds an MA in Economics from College of Europe and BA in International Economics from The American University of Paris. Mr. Stake has experience in business development and start-ups. He previously served as Managing Director for The Brussels Office, advising a large number of companies on energy and environmental affairs. Fields of competence include European affairs, business policies and regulation and he is an experienced international speaker on Energy and Environment affairs.
kjetil@saharaforestproject.com
Frederic Hauge
Frederic Hauge founded Bellona in 1986, at the age of twenty. He is still the President of the largest environmental NGO in Norway. Bellona has offices in Oslo, Brussels, St.Petersburg, Murmansk and Kiev. Trough academic work, legal action and non-violent activism, Bellona has changed the opinion and set the agenda on environmental issues in Norway for almost three decades. The work of the Bellona Foundation has led to concrete changes in environmental policy and awareness among political and business leaders, both in Norway and internationally. Hauge was in 2007 elected Vice Chairman of the European Commission's Technology Platform for CO2 sequestration (ZEP). The same year TIME Magazine named him "Hero of The Environment". In 2009 Frederic Hauge became a board member of the EU Biofuel Platform (EBTP), and he became one of the founding partners of the Sahara Forest Project. In 2010 he took a leading international role in exploring the possibilities of combining biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS), through the creation of JointTaskForce. In 2011 he was asked to be one of the 12 personal advisors to the EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on the extensive EU Energy Roadmap 2050. In 2012 Frederic Hauge launched the company Ocean Forest.
Michael Pawlyn
Mr. Pawlyn jointly initiated the project and assembled the team that became formalized as The Sahara Forest Project. He established the architecture firm Exploration in 2007 to focus on biomimicry. Prior to establishing his own firm, he was part of the core team of architects at Grimshaw that designed the Eden Project. Mr. Pawlyn has lectured internationally on biomimicry and innovative approaches to sustainability and is the author of the book Biomimicry in Architecture (new version out 2016).
Mr. Pawlyn is a Board Member of The Sahara Forest Project.
