Dan Joergensen was appointed Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities on June 27th 2019 Dan Jannik J�rgensen, born June 12th 1975 in Odense. Member period Member of the Folketing for The Social Democratic Party in Funen greater constituency from June 18th 2015. Candidate for The Social Democratic Party in Middelfart nomination district from 2011. Parliamentary career Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities from June 27th 2019. Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries December 12th 2013 - June 28th 2015. Vice-chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party. Member of the European Parliament July 20th 2004 - December 11th 2013, president of the Animal Welfare Intergroup. Vice-Chairman of European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Head of the Danish delegation of Social Democrats in the European Parliament. Education MSc (political science), Aarhus University, 2004. EmploymentExternal lecurer, Seattle University, 2012-2013. External lecurer, Sciences Po, Paris, 2012-2013. External lecurer, Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Copenhagen, 2011-2013. Adjunct Professor, Aalborg University, 2016. External lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 2013. External lecturer, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, 2010. Affiliations Member of the board of AWE Center Nairobi, Center for Education and Humanity 2007-2010. Member of the advisory board of World Watch Institute Europe 2011-2013. Publications Author of �Eurovisioner - Essays on the Europe of the future�, Informations Forlag, 2006, �Green Globalization - environmental policy in change�, Hovedland, 2007, �Politicians with both legs on the ground do not hang on the trees�, Informations Forlag, 2009, �Mellem Mars and Venus - The EU's role in the world order of the future �, Sohn Publishing, 2009, and� Green Hope - Climate Policy 2.0 �, Sohn Publishing, 2010. Co-author of� Beyond deniers and believers: towards a map of the politics of climate change � in Global Environmental Change, 2015.

Dr. Hussain Rasheed Hassan was appointed as the Minister of Environment on the 17th of November 2018, following the inauguration of the new administration of President H.E. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. The new Minister is responsible for the conservation of the natural environment, water resources and energy sources in the Maldives.

Alok Sharma was appointed Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 13 February 2020. He was also appointed President of COP 26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, on the same date. He was previously Secretary of State for International Development from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Minister of State for Employment at the Department of Work and Pensions from 9 January 2018 until 24 July 2019. He was Minister of State for Housing and Planning, for the Department for Communities and Local Government from 13 June 2017 to 9 January 2018. Parliamentary career Alok was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 17 July 2016 to 13 June 2017. He has served as a member of the Commons Treasury select committee, a member of the Commons Science and Technology select committee, a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Treasury and from 2012 to 2015 as a Conservative Party Vice Chairman. Alok was appointed in 2016 as the Prime Minister�s Infrastructure Envoy to India. He also served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, the former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who had overall responsibility for the Cabinet Office. He was elected as the Conservative MP for Reading West in May 2010. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy which brings together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation and energy. This includes: ? developing and delivering a comprehensive industrial strategy and leading the government�s relationship with business ? ensuring that the country has secure energy supplies that are reliable, affordable and clean ? ensuring the UK remains at the leading edge of science, research and innovation ? tackling climate change Previous roles in government ? Secretary of State for International Development o 2019 to 2020 ? Minister of State for Employment o 2018 to 2019 ? Minister of State for Housing and Planning o 2017 to 2018 ? Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Asia and the Pacific) o 2016 to 2017

Shri Raj Kumar Singh assumed the charge as the Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Government of India on 3rd September, 2017. Shri Singh joined Indian Administrative Service in 1975 and held various important assignments, such as the District Magistrate of East Champaran and of Patna, Director and Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Government of India, Commissioner of Patna Division and Home Secretary of Bihar, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Principal Secretary of the Road Construction Department of the Government of Bihar. He also held the post of Secretary, Department of Defence Production, Government of India and the Union Home Secretary, Govt. of India. He was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014. He served on various Parliamentary Committees including mainly, the Privilege Committee, the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence and the Standing Committee of Ministry of Health &Family Welfare. He was also a Member of the Standing Committee for Peace and Security of International Parliamentary Union. As Minister of State with Independent Charge of the Ministries of Power and New & Renewable Energy, he had the privilege of launching and accomplishing the task of the world’s biggest power access programme, under which all villages and hamlets in the country were provided access to electricity. Thereafter, he implemented the “Saubhagya Scheme”, which saw electricity connections being provided to more than 26 million households who were earlier deprived within a span of 18 months (October 2017 – March 2019). The International Energy Agency acknowledged this achievement as the most significant initiative in the energy sector worldwide. His term as the Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister was also marked by connecting the whole country into one grid under the initiative ‘One Country, One Grid, One Frequency’. This has ensured access to the better quality of power, stability to the grid and also the efficient use of energy in line of Sustainable Development Goals. In the Renewable Energy Sector, Shri Singh has effectively catalyzed India’s vast RE potential with renewable energy capacity already reaching around 90 GW as on date with around 50 GW under installation. India is now well poised under his leadership to achieve the target of 175 GW by December 2022.

Shri Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi (IAS) has assumed the charge as Secretary in the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India. Prior to this appointment, he was serving as Additional Chief Secretary and Additional Secretary (Climate Change Department) at the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of Jharkhand. Shri Chaturvedi is a 1987 batch IAS officer and belongs to the Jharkhand cadre. Shri Chaturvedi is B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT- Kanpur and holds a P.G. in International Development from Harvard University (USA). He has also worked as Joint Secretary or equivalent in PMO, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry Of Finance. He has extensive experience of working in other departments like the erstwhile Planning Commission (now NITI Aayog), Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions. Shri Chaturvedi has also undergone training in Financial Management, Community Mobilisation & Participatory Management Techniques.