Patrik Kolar has been Head of Department B (LIFE and Horizon 2020 Energy, Environment, Resources) at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) in Brussels since October 2017. His Department is responsible for implementation of the EU LIFE Programme, CIP Eco-innovation, Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 3 (Energy efficiency) and Societal Challenge 5 (Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials). Research and innovation as well as close-to-market activities supported by EASME mainly focus on energy efficiency of buildings, heating and cooling, involvement of industry, consumers, public authorities and energy services in energy efficiency actions. Before joining EASME Patrik has been leading different Units at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation since 2007. He holds PhD in chemistry from the University in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is Alexander von Humboldt research fellow from the University Karlsruhe, Germany.
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David Weatherall is Head of Policy at the Energy Saving Trust, the UK's leading energy agency. He has worked for fifteen years on policy to encourage governments to introduce a strong and effective policy framework around home energy efficiency. He is committed to maximising the value of Energy Performance Certificates for home owners and for the energy efficiency industry and has worked extensively on policy and programme development to achieve this. David developed and worked on two cross-Europe projects to increase the impact of EPCs and earlier this year was funded by the EU and UK Governments to advise Canada on launching a building energy labelling system. David has served on several UK government stakeholder committees. He has a particular interest in refurbishment of multi-occupancy and rented buildings and tackling fuel poverty. Alongside his work at the Energy Saving Trust David in 2016 and 2017 was a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at Oxford University working on reducing legal barriers to energy efficiency.
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