Dr Andrzej Kassenberg is a co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development (InE) and the Polish Energy Efficiency Foundation. He served as president of InE for 24 years. He holds a Master’s degree in Geography and a PhD in Technical Sciences. Since 1980, he has been involved in the environmental movement, including the Polish Ecological Club. For many years, he has been engaged in academic work in the field of sustainable development; he currently specialises in energy and climate protection issues. He has lectured at numerous Polish and American universities. He was the initiator and first chair of the Commission for Environmental Impact Assessments under the Polish Minister for the Environment. Between 1991 and 1995 and 1999 and 2000, he was a member of the Council for the Environment and Social Issues to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Between 2009 and 2015, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, serving as its chairman for the last three years. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Scientific Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences, he was honoured as ‘Polish Ecologist of the Year 2005’. He is the author or co-author of over 150 publications.
