CAJ: Advanced infrastructure megaprojects - Desertec #3 (Who?)

Desertec

Who?

The project is supported by the DESERTEC Foundation, which is a non-profit, non-governmental (NGO) organisation. It is both the initiator and inventor of the concept.

DESERTEC Foundation was created by the consortium called Dii (Desertec industrial initiative), which was founded in 2009. It is a German, limited liability company (GmbH). Its aim is to create the technical, economic, political, social and ecological conditions to realize the Desertec concept in the EU-MENA region.

The Dii was developed by the Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation (TREC), an international network of politicians, scientists and economists. It is a voluntary organisation made up of experts from all across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA).

Dr Gerhard Knies, the main initiator of Desertec

The main initiator of the entire concept is a German particle physicist, the founder of TREC: Dr. Gerhard Knies. In 1986, seeing Chernobyl, he started looking for a potential alternative source of clean energy.

A TedTalk with Dr. Gerhard Knies:

The DESERTEC Foundation has 2 directors and a CEO:

Dr Thiemo Gropp,
director of the DESERTEC Foundation,
German physicist and co-founder of the DESERTEC Foundation

Dr Ignacio Campino,
director of the DESERTEC Foundation,
Chilean ecologist

Paul van Son,
CEO of Dii GmbH,
senior international energy manager

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