The following table lists the main participants in the project, together with their institutional affiliation and role. The roles are as follows (see section 10 starting on page 96 for details). The "Core team" is all work package leaders, project manager, project director.

• "Work package leader" denotes a leader of one of the work packages.
• "Staff" denotes a member of the project team without leadership responsibilities but with a definite tasking on one or more work packages.
• "Advisor" denotes a member of the advisory board, with broad responsibilities to provide expertise and guidance throughout the project as outlined in the description of work package 1.

Curriculum Vitæ

Ayres, Robert                                   < top of page>

Professor Dr. Robert Ayres is Sandoz Professor of Environment and Management at INSEAD, since 1992, and Director of CMER. He holds a joint appointment in economics and technology management. Previously he was Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, and (from 1987 to 1990) he was Deputy Leader of the Technology and Society Program at IIASA, in Laxenburg, Austria. He has held numerous consulting and advisory positions, is on the editorial advisory boards for six journals, has authored or co-authored sixteen books, edited or co-edited another eight books, and authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, IIASA Research Reports or book chapters. His principal research interests in recent years include environmental economics, industrial metabolism, industrial ecology and growth theory.

Berg, Christian                                   < top of page>

 Christian Berg is researcher at the intistute of Clausthal and works closely with Ildiko Tilbure.

Bierhoff, Jan                                   < top of page>

Jan Bierhoff is programme leader of the International Institute of Infonomics in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Until spring 2000 he worked for the European Journalism Centre, an international mid-career facility based in Maastricht, as its founding director. Before coming to the Centre in 1993 he directed the international activities of the Dutch School of Journalism in Utrecht. At this institute, he also lectured in media theory. After graduation in Mass Communication at Nijmegen University, Mr Bierhoff started his professional career as a radio journalist, wrote for magazines and newspapers and worked as a communication consultant for international bodies. Publications include textbooks on media structures, local media and media strategies in general. Jan Bierhoff is also member of international advisory boards of media institutions.

Botterman, Maarten                                   < top of page>

Drs. Maarten Botterman will act as project manager. He is a project leader at RAND Europe in the Telecommunications and Information Technology practice area. His emphasis is on the areas affected by the emergence of the Information Society. He holds a degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and is an internationally recognised expert in new methods of working. He has been involved as a Commission Officer in the development of the EU 5th Framework programme while working for ACTS (Advanced Telecommunications Technologies and Services: Programme Preparation and Evaluation) and IST (Information Society Technologies: New Methods of Work). In this period he has built his experience in working with international consortia and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Cave, Jonathan                                   < top of page>

Professor Jonathan Cave will act as project director. He is a Senior Economist at RAND Europe with extensive experience in regulation, law and economics, and policy evaluation. He holds degrees from Yale (B.Sc.), Cambridge (MA), and Stanford (Ph.D.). In his position as Senior Economist at RAND Europe, he has led projects on a variety of issues in telecommunications (PHARE posts and telecommunications evaluation, transition from rate-of-return to price-cap regulation, legal issues arising on the electronic highway, universal service and the Internet), programme evaluation (UK National Audit Office projects), social policy (effects of ageing European populations), industrial policy, and government’s evolving role (passing on costs of government activity to private parties, market failure in the waste disposal industry, use of government procurement as a tool to spur innovation). Many of these projects involved international comparisons and teams spread across different organisations and nations. He has also worked on projects in the areas of health, transportation, trusted services and procurement/outsourcing reform. Dr. Cave is also a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Warwick, where is involved in the Information Technology theme of the ESRC Centre for Research on Globalisation, Regions and Emerging Markets and the Centre for the Study of Behaviour under Regulation. He is also a member of European and British networks on Industrial Policy, Public Economics, Internet Economics and Law & Economics.

Descamps, Pol                                   < top of page>

Education: Engineer Univ. Leuven Belgium (1958) &MSAP (Computer Sciences &Physics) Harvard Univ. USA (1959). He has 40 years experience in audio visual communications and displaying equipment research, design and manufacturing at BARCO NV Kortrijk Belgium; as technical manager, Managing Director, Director Strategic Planning, and Advisor Special Studies (R&D). In addition, he worked and audited CEU funded projects in the visual communications area 1982-1999 (RACE, AIM, TIDE, DELTA, ESPRIT, TEN-IBC, ACTS, INFSO), with special focus on the evolution planning, Techno-economics and network roll-out modelling for advanced tele-services and applications on alternative broadband access networks. He participated in the ACTS Horizontal Action project ASIS ‘Alliance for a Sustainable Information Society’ (1998-2000), has initiated international R&D actions for regional (sustainable) development using ICT, is member of the Advisory Board of the Belgian BIPT (Belgisch Instituut voor Post en Telecommunicatie), and is currently Advisor Special Studies for BARCO NV General Services Department and is member of the Co-ordination Team for the new International Master Program in Technology Assessment and Integration at the West-Flanders Engineering College Kortrijk Belgium.

Dyer, Bernard                                   < top of page>

Bernard Dyer is Visiting Fellow of the Computer Science Research Centre within the Information Systems Department at the LSE, is an independent consultant with Enterprise LSE, is one of the directors of the Information and Document Management Association’s research programme and is an Associate of Henley Management College where he supervises MBA students. He has a background in engineering, information management and information systems. He has worked extensively on the business, social and educational impact of computing and electric communications within the government and private sectors. He played an important part in the introduction, development and application of computing for economic growth in the UK covering highways and bridges, construction, nuclear, marine, petroleum, aerospace and manufacturing industries, His work has also been concerned with management issues such as business modelling and analysis, management of change, electronic commerce, information and document management and the development of IS and IT strategies to resolve business needs within such sectors as banking, insurance, retailing and engineering. He has developed methodologies, incorporating a set of principles of good practice, for information management and has applied this work within organisations, supply chains and industries to improve business performance. His work has been used to develop a strategy for assisting a developing country build a modern economy based in information technology industries.

Fauconnier, Christophe                                   < top of page>

Christophe Fauconnier is Director, World Wide Division, CENSYDIAM. Marketing experience in Unilever across Europe and in India. Expert in assessment of consumer needs and lifestyles across cultures. Consultant for global clients like Heineken, UNICEF, Unilever, Coca-Cola across markets in the areas of consumer development and understanding. Higher university degrees in psychology and economics.

Harkonen, Ene                                   < top of page>

Ene Härkönen was born in Tallinn, Estonia. She studied geography at University of Tartu, Estonia (1989-1993, Bachelor’s degree) and at University of Joensuu, Finland  (1994-1998, Licentiate in Philosophy). She has specialized in several themes such as regional development, economic life, rural development and knowledge society. She worked at University of Helsinki in 1999-2001, where she performed as main researcher in the EU project PRIDE (Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe / FAIR research programme). Since 2001, she works at Finland Futures Research Centre. Recently, she wrote a knowledge society strategy for Southwest Finland 2002-2005.

Hughes, Barry                                   < top of page>

Professor Barry Hughes will lead the modelling /tool-building activities. He is consultant at RAND Europe and the developer of the International Futures (IFs) model from which TERRA2000 will evolve. He earned BS in Mathematics from Stanford in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota in 1970. He taught at Case Western Reserve University, is professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and serves the university as Vice Provost for Graduate Studies. His principal research interests are in the areas of (1) computer simulation models for economic, energy, food, population, environmental, and socio-political forecasting, (2) policy analysis, and (3) global futures. His fundamental concern lies in developing effective response to long-term global change. Dr. Hughes has consulted and taught widely around the world. He has written several books and many articles, including International Futures (Westview 1999).

Inglehart, Ron                                   < top of page>

Ronald Inglehart is a professor of political science and program director at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has, on several occasions, been a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and will work in that capacity during the life of this project. He helped found the Euro-Barometer surveys and is chair of the executive committee of the World Values Surveys. His research deals with changing belief systems and their impact on social and political change. His most recent books are Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) and Human Values and Beliefs: A Cross-Cultural Sourcebook (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998). Author of over 125 publications, he has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Nigeria and has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department and the European Union. For more information, see Inglehart’s website: http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/ringlehart/index.html

Jischa, Michael                                   < top of page>

Michael F. Jischa was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1937. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, from where he received a doctorate in Engineering in 1968 and a lecturer degree (habilitation) in 1971 for the subject of fluid dynamics. He became Full Professor for Fluid-Dynamics at the University of Essen in 1974 and for Applied Mechanics at the Technical University Clausthal in 1981. He also received visiting professorships at Haifa-Technion, Israel; Marseille, France; and Shanghai, China. In the Association of German Engineers (VDI) he is member of the committees “Man and Technology” and “Technology Assessment”. Since 1999 he is Chairman of The German Association for the Club of Rome (CoR). During the last 10 years he has worked intensively on applying systems theory to world development issues in the framework of the CoR "problematique", and is the author of the widely acclaimed book "Herausforderung Zukunft", which addresses the general public on these issues. In industry he is also well known as a leading expert on technology assessment.

Kaivo-oja, Jari                                   < top of page>

Researcher, Lic. Jari Kaivo-oja is born in Finland and graduated from Economics/International Economics -programme, Development Studies-programme and Journalism & Mass Communication-programme at the University of Tampere in Finland (1990). In 1990-91 he carried out an international research project concerning energy sector project evaluation (CBA) systems and practices in Tanzania. In 1991-1994 Kaivo-oja was a project co-ordinator of a "Demonstration Project for Sustainable Development" in the South-Savo region in Finland. At the University of Tampere he also did a master thesis "TQM System for Environmental Programme Evaluation" in the Department of Regional Science and Environmental Policy (1995) at the University of Tampere, where he also defended his Lic. Thesis "Essays in Sustainable Social and Regional Development Planning: Futures Approach" in 1998. Since 1996 he has been a researcher at the Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC). In 1996-1997 he was the programme mentor for Uusimaa 2020 -project, which analysed and built future scenarios for Helsinki Metropolitan area till the year 2020. He is an author or co-author of over 90 articles & research reports. His research interests are connected to sustainable information society topics and the use of foresight methods in environmental and socio-economic policy analysis and management.

Recently he has developed a macromodel and scenario approach for country-level sustainability evaluation analysis together with Prof. Pentti Malaska and Dr. Jyrki Luukkanen. Researcher Kaivo-oja has consulted various ministries and companies (especially in ICT & telecommunication business) in Finland. Currently researcher Kaivo-oja is nominated to be researcher for the socio-economic part of a large-scale study in the years 1999-2001, in which comprehensive, long-range scenarios are built for Finland according to IPCC model framework. His job in the FINSKEN-project (a part of Finnish Global Change Research Programme, FIGARE-programme) is combine socio-economic models to climate change models and build coherent, long-range & scenario-based evaluation framework (IA-framework) for country-level environmental and infrastructure policy analysis. Kaivo-oja is member of International Young IA-Network and board member of the Society of Progressive Scientist in Finland.

Kämpke, Thomas                                   < top of page>

Dr. Thomas Kämpke has experience in formal and empirical equity analysis. He started his career with a degree in mathematics and worked in the early years in the computer science departments. In 1986/87 he studied at the University of California on a grant from the Alexander van Humboldt Foundation, since then he works at FAW on several subjects, including formal modeling, autonomous systems, design and analysis of algorithms, man computer interaction, discrete planning, scheduling, adaptive systems, bio informatics, practical optimisation, data and decision analysis and decision support systems, computer vision and signal processing, probabilistic modeling and graphics computing.

Kapitza, Sergei                                   < top of page>

Professor Sergei Kapitza graduated from Moscow Institute for Aeronautics in 1949. Since then his engineering and scientific career began, spanning many fields of research. Since 1956 SK has taught on a part time basis at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology and in 1965 became full professor there. For 33 years he was in charge of the chair of physics, responsible up to 1998 for teaching general physics for the first three years. In 1973 SK published «The life of Science» – a collection of introductions to major works of science, which provided background for a TV series discussing matters of science and society, which has run for 26 years, and has received numerous prizes. This led to participation in the Pugwash conferences and membership of the Club of Rome. Professor Kapitza has long been active on the world stage in discussing matters of science, security and society, including international scientific co-operation, population growth and other areas of application of quantitative techniques to social problems.

Klingemann, Hans-Dieter                                   < top of page>

Hans-Dieter Klingemann works in Research Area III: Social Change, Institutions, and Mediating Processes Research Unit “Institutions and Social Change” Email: klingem@medea.wz-berlin.de Tel. +49-30-25491-320 Fax: -345.

Levin, David                                   < top of page>

Dr. David Levin holds a Ph.D. in set-theory based algorithms and computations, published about 100 papers and two books. Recent projects: modelling under incomplete data; system analysis and project management for CAD applications in machine construction; modelling of socio-economical processes and sustainability scenarios. He is Director of the Non-Commercial Partnership "For Sustainable Information Society in Russia", Director of Siberian Branch of The Russian Information Society Institute and President of LEDAS Company specialising in applications of high level modelling software tools.

Luukanen, Jyrki                                   < top of page>

Dr. Jyrki Luukkanen (University of Tampere, Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy) has a long-term expertise both in technological and social science research. He has a vast teaching experience in systems theory and in environmental policy and worked as an acting professor of environmental policy in 1998-99. His area of specialisation is climate and energy policy and politics, material flow analysis, development studies, energy, material and environmental modelling and scenario building, and environmental planning. He has been a leader of several national and international research projects dealing with environmental, energy and development issues, natural resources, and local and global environmental policy and politics. He has been the leader of the Finnish partner in an EU/TSER funded research project “Modelling Sustainable Europe” co-ordinated by Wuppertal Institute in 1996-98.

Malaska, Pentti                                   < top of page>

Professor Dr. Pentti Malaska He is a professor emeritus of management science and operations research in Turku School of Economics and Business Administration since 1966. He was also a director of the Finland Futures Research Centre during 1992-1997. He holds a doctor's degree of technology (energy engineering) in Helsinki Technical University. He has gained expertise on operations research, strategic planning and visionary management and scenario approach in business and on energy policy and energy economics and consulting many companies and the State Bank of Finland and the Parliament. His research interest covers futures studies, sustainable development, nature-oriented technology, interaction society and evolutionary dynamics of societal development, exergy analysis of material development, third world problematique, and modelling of practical decision situations. He has published or edited five books and over two hundred scientific papers and essays. He is a member of the Finnish Technological Society, Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences, The Club of Rome, Finnish Society for Futures Studies (President 1980–1989), the World Futures Studies Federation secretary general 1990–1993 and President 1993–1997, and the International Kondratieff Foundation, and a professional member of the World Futures Society. He was awarded the Medal of the Finnish Technological Society, the State Medal of Finland, the Aurelio Peccei Prize and plate of the L´Eta` Verde Association, the Futures Prize of the Finland Society for Futures Studies, and Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland –medal, Honorary member of the Futures Study Academy, Russia 4.2.99.

Mesarovic, Mihaljo                                   < top of page>

Professor Mihaljo Mesarovic played a founding role in the development of mathematical general systems theory and hierarchical, multilevel systems theory. He has also developed a family of global models, including the Mesarivic/Pestel model, the World Integrated Model, FORECASTII and GLOBESIGHT. He has published widely on systems theory, world modelling and the use of such models to analyse global societal problems.

Radermacher, Franz-Josef                                   < top of page>

Since 1987 Professor Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher has been scientific director and chairman of the board of FAW (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing) in Ulm, Germany, and Professor of Data Base Systems and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ulm. He holds doctoral degrees in Mathematics and Economics, his habilitation in Mathematics was effected at the Technical University (TH) of Aachen in 1982. 1983-1987 Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Passau. 1988-1992 president of the GMÖOR (German Society for Mathematics, Economics and Operations Research). 1990-1991 chairman of the AKI (Council of the German Research Institutes for AI). 1990-1993 member of the Landesforschungsbeirat Baden-Württemberg (research advisory committee of the State of Baden-Württemberg). 1992-1993 member of the Zukunftskommission Wirtschaft 2000 (advisory committee ‘Economics 2000’ of the State of Baden-Württemberg). Since 1993 member of the commission ‘Research and Technology’ of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Association for Computer Science). 1994-96 member of the Innovationsbeirat des Landes Baden-Württemberg (innovation advisory committee of the State of Baden-Württemberg). 1995-97 member of the Multimedia-Enquêtekommission (a commission of the Land Baden-Württemberg which dealt with the chances and risks of new information and communication technologies). Since 1995 member of the Information Society Forum of the European Commission (since 1997 chairman of Working Group 4 “Sustainable Development” and member of the Steering Committee). 1996-99 member of the expert group INFO2000 of the European Commission. Since 1996 member of the working group “Mobility” of the initiative “Schritte zu einer nachhaltigen, umweltgerechten Entwicklung” of the Federal Ministry of Environment. 1996-98 member of the Strategic Requirements Board for the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission. 1996/97 chairman of the AKI. Since 1997, he's been a member of the scientific advisory board of several thematic park areas of the EXPO 2000. Professor Radermacher has also strong relations to the UN Development Agency and the UN Environmental Programme; the German foundation for World Population Issues; The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations; and to the Rotary International Fellowship on Population and Development. Since 1999 member of the Plato Network founded in March 1999 in Poitiers/Futuroscope at the World Symposium on Network Media. 1999-2000 Member of the Board of the IPTS Futures 2010 Project.

Professor Radermacher has a strong interest in technical issues of information technology and intelligent systems, the future of work and social systems, the global information society and its interplay with the sustainability issue. He emphasises in these areas on population issues, dematerialisation, avoiding of rebound effects, global eco-taxation and global social systems. Professor Radermacher will serve as a member of the advisory team of the project and as leader of work packages 9 (events) and 10 (dissemination).

Schauer, Thomas                                   < top of page>

Dr. Thomas Schauer studied chemistry (1983-1989) at Konstanz University (Germany). He did research on digital image processing, molecular biology and cell biology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Munich (1990-1993) and participated in a genome-sequencing project at Konstanz University (1994-1995). Working for the Social Democratic Party he co-ordinated the delegates and scientists in the Enquete-Commission on Sustainable Development in the German Parliament with focus on Information Society Technologies (1995-1998). In 1998 he joined the Research Institute for application-oriented knowledge processing (FAW) in Ulm Germany. At the FAW he was project manager of the ASIS project funded within the ACTS-programme of the EC and of a project on sustainable lifestyles funded by several companies from industry. Additionally, he serves as expert in several national and international think tanks on sustainability and the Information Society.

Simmons, Stephen                                   < top of page>

Mr. Stephen Simmons, a British citizen, is an honours graduate of the University of London in Civil Engineering. He was elected Chartered Engineer in 1972 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1994. His current work is in e-work implementation within the micro-SME sector, with particular relevance to socio-economic questions (e.g. quality of life, and sustainability). He is Managing Director of Addico Cornix Ltd, Chief Executive of the U.K. National Association of Teleworking, and the author of Flexible Working (Kogan Page) (London 1996), Editor Regional Research Networks (E.C.) 1995 and Editor, Small Business Networks (E.C.) 1996. He was a partner in the ASIS Alliance for a Sustainable Information Society, contributing SME-related scenarios and perspectives, and is technical co-ordinator for the ASSIST study of consumption substitution by immaterial IST.

Soete, Luc                                   < top of page>

Professor Dr. Luc Soete is professor of International Economics, founding director of MERIT and director of the International Institute of Infonomics. Before coming to the University of Maastricht he worked at the department of Economics of the University of Antwerp and at the University of Sussex, England. He was visiting associate professor at the department of Economics of Stanford University. Dr Soete has published a large number of books and articles on the subject of industrial innovation and its economic implications for western countries. He is a member of various scientific committees of European universities. Recently, he has been engaged in discussions about the bit-tax issue, the taxation of online transactions. Dr Soete chaired the High Level Expert Group on the Social and Societal Aspects of the Information Society for the European Commission. This group was set up to look into the implications of the emerging Information Society and reported to the Commission in April 1997.

Tesch, Tom                                    < top of page>

Tom Tesch graduated as an electronics engineer specialised in micro-electronic design in 1999. He has worked as an ASIC design engineer for the IMEC research centre (Leuven) and is now employed by the West-Flanders Engineering College. He is participating in the TERRA project in order to broaden his knowledge concerning complex systems and in preparation of his Ph.D. Within the TERRA-project Tom Tesch is mainly involved with the system dynamic modelling of the effects of networking. Besides societal assessments of technology, Tom is currently exploring technological fields of research that include broadband wireless-technology for use in peer to peer environments, and adaptive computer-systems

Tuinenga, Jan Gerrit                                   < top of page>

Jan Gerrit Tuinenga is a research leader and has a background in operations research/econometrics. His work mainly relates to the design and implementation of model systems which are used in analysing and forecasting multi-modal transportation demand. He functions as assistant project manager in Terra 2000.

Tulbure, Ildiko                                   < top of page>

Ildiko Camelia Tulbure was born in Petrosani, Romania on 18.12.1969. She studied mechanical engineering at the University of Petrosani. She was awarded the degree of Dipl.-Ing. in 1993. She worked then as a research and teaching assistant for fluid mechanics at this university. She obtained a DAAD-scholarship for the time 1994-1997 at the Institute for Applied Mechanics of the Technical University Clausthal, Germany, where she received the doctor title in Engineering in 1997 together with the Research Award of the University. She continued 1998 the activity in Romania. Then she obtained 1999 a Humboldt Fellowship at the Institute for Applied Mechanics of TU Clausthal. Since 2000 she is working at this Institute as a research and teaching assistant. Her research areas are concentrated on methods and strategies to operationalise the concept of sustainable development and on modelling dynamic systems.

Weiler, Raoul                                   < top of page>

Professor Dr. Ir. Raoul Weiler is engineer in Chemistry and Agro-industries and doctor in Applied Biological Sciences (1966) of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Before joining the chemical industry he was a postdoctoral fellow of the National Science Foundation, US at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of the Air Force Research Office at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC and of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, at the Université Paris V. The research fields consisted in the study of self-diffusion in colloïdal systems with the use of radioactive tracers and of the study of the liquid structure of vitreous systems by the use of ultrasonic relaxation.

He joined a German multinational chemical company in 1970 in the division Applied Physics doing applied research on catalytic reaction systems, worked as a process engineer in Germany and Belgium and later as IT-manager of a Belgian subsidiary.

During the same period he was the founding-chairman of a Working Party on Filtration Technology within the Royal Flemish Engineer Association and was President of the 4th World Congress on Filtration in 1986.

In 1988, he started a Working Party on Science, Technology and Society. These activities resulted in the publication of four books on the subject of the Philosophy of Technology, Sustainable Development and Global Change. From 1995 on he got involved in several academic activities at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium in the programme ESST (European Interuniversity Association on Society, Science and Technology), the University of Antwerp, at the University of Maastricht and at his present University at Leuven, with teaching activities on the relationship between technology and society and especially on Sustainable Development and Global Change. In 1997 he joined the Club of Rome of which he is now an associated member and the European Academy, Vienna in which he is dean of the Class Engineering Sciences.

His research interests are related with the study in the fields of Sustainable Development and Global Change, especially using modelling systems (dynamic systems), in order to elaborate long term assessments and views as a help and contribution in local and planetary decision processes.

Currently he is involved in Technology Assessment and participates in the set up of an Institute for the Flemish Government.