Center for Clean Air Policy-Europe
Avenue de Tervueren 402, 1150 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: ccapeurope@interel.eu
Phone: +32 (2) 808 04 84
Fax: +32 (2) 777 05 10
Staff
President
Ned Helme
Ned Helme is the founder and president of the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP). As a leading expert on climate and air policy, he advises Members of Congress, state governments, the European Commission and developing countries on these issues.
A noted speaker and facilitator, Ned is the author of more than 50 key studies on climate change, air quality, electricity regulation, and transportation policy. With more than twenty-five years experience in climate and air policy, Ned has a broad and deep understanding of cap-and-trade programs and other market and non-market approaches to addressing climate change.
Ned played an instrumental role in the development and passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990, which established the first national emissions trading program in the U.S. He was also a driving force behind the Decin Project in the Czech Republic, a pilot program to implement projects that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development, and led stakeholder discussions that produced the design of the Clean Development Mechanism. Ned also led the expert team that developed the original design of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme.
He serves on the Transportation Research Board and has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to starting CCAP, Ned directed the Natural Resources Division of the National Governors Association and was a legislative director to a U.S. Congressman. He holds an M.P.P. from the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and a B.A. in political science and psychology from Haverford College.
Director, Brussels Office
Tomas Wyns
Tomas Wyns is the director of the CCAP Europe office in Brussels, Belgium. From 2007-11 Tomas was the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Policy Adviser of Climate Action Network Europe and NGO representative in European Climate Change Policy working groups on the EU Emission Trading Scheme. Tomas coordinated the NGO campaign on the 2008 EU Climate and Energy package. Later he took on the role of policy team coordinator at Climate Action Network Europe.
Prior to that, Tomas worked as a climate change policy adviser for the Flemish Ministry of the Environment where he focused on the EU Emission Trading Scheme, in particular the Flemish Allocation Plan. He coordinated the Flemish environmental regulations concerning energy efficiency and provided technical support in the realization of the Flemish Benchmarking Covenant. Tomas was the Flemish negotiator at the ENV Council Working Group and represented the Flemish Government within the EU Working Group III in the Climate Change Committee.
Born in Belgium in 1974, Tomas holds a master's degree in physics and a diploma in international relations from the University of Leuven.