irene n. sobotta irene@greening.it Irene is one of the editors of the book. She has a masters degree in Environmental and Socio-economic Planning and is working as a Climate Change Adviser. Irene is interested in Climate Change and its technological solutions, both on a professional level and as a consumer. Irene is the treasurer of The Greening IT Initiative and her core contribution to the book is within the field of environment and politics, looking into what is needed to facilitate societal change.
Twitter: twitter.com/isobotta

john gøtze john@greening.it John is one of the editors of the book. John is a lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School. He currently serves as President of the Association of Enterprise Architects (a|EA) and Vice President of The Greening IT Initiative. He is co-founder of the Danish think-tank EA Fellows. He has served as enterprise architect at the National IT and Telecom Agency in Copenhagen, and earlier as head of section at the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development. He is the author of many papers on strategic IT issues in a number of recognized journals as well as co-author of Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance. He holds a PhD in Technology and a M.Sc. in Engineering, both from the Technical University of Denmark.
Web: http://www.gotzespace.dk/
Twitter: twitter.com/gotze

laurent liscia laurent.liscia@oasis-open.org Laurent Liscia is the Executive Director at OASIS, provides leadership, operational oversight, and strategic vision for the consortium. He represents OASIS in the international arena, serving as an advocate for open standards in matters of policy and adoption. Laurent also develops new opportunities to extend the breadth and depth of future OASIS work. Prior to joining OASIS, he co-founded several Web-related companies, including Traackr and Webmotion. Laurent served as a Media Attaché for French Foreign Affairs and has worked in France, Canada, Italy, Ecuador, Morocco and the United States. He holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne University and speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Laurent is based in San Francisco.
Web: http://blogs.oasis-open.org/lliscia

tom Raftery tom@tomrafteryit.net Tom Raftery is an analyst for the Green IT division of research and advisory firm RedMonk. As such he specialises in Green tech and sustainability. He is a communicator, blogger, multi-award nominated audio and video podcaster at PodLeaders.com, and social media consultant. He is also a co-founder and director of Cork Internet eXchange - a hyper energy-efficient data center. He holds a PhD in Plant Science and has worked for a number of companies at Group IT Manager/CTO level since 2004.
Web: http://greenmonk.net/
Twitter: twitter.com/tomraftery

flavio souza flako2@gmail.com Flavio Souza holds a double master degree (e-business and MBA) from the International University of Japan (IUJ), Niigata. He has over 15 years of experience working in marketing and hi-tech business areas at global corporations in his native Brazil, Europe and Japan. Souza is also the founder of Green IT group - GreenITers.
Web: http://www.greenITers.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/GreenITers

sean whetstone Sean Whetstone is Head of IT Services for Reed Global. He has worked in the IT industry for 22 years (20 of them for Reed). Reed successfully reduced its carbon footprint by 2,500 tonnes of CO2 per annum in 2006 by rolling out new Thin Client IT infrastructure. He is a regular speaker at conferences about Thin Client technology, Efficient Computing and virtualization issues. He presented a Green IT case study with Global Action Plan at the House of Commons, London. Winner of City of London Resource Conservation Award at the London Sustainable City Awards 2008. Winner of Computing Magazine for Green Project of the Year 2008, and Signed up to EC Code of Conduct for Data centre Energy Efficiency. Winner of Mayor of London Green 500 Trailblazer, Engager & Platinum Awards in June 2009
Web: http://www.geekygreen.co.uk
Twitter: twitter.com/geekygreen

dr. george arnold george.arnold@nist.gov George Arnold was appointed National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in April 2009. He is responsible for leading the development of standards underpinning the nation's Smart Grid. He served as Chairman of the Board of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), a private, non-profit organisation that co-ordinates the U.S. voluntary standardisation and conformity assessment system, from 2003 to 2005. He served as President of the IEEE Standards Association in 2007-2008 and is currently Vice President-Policy for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Dr. Arnold received a Doctor of Engineering Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University in 1978.

ariane rüdiger aruediger@mnet-online.de Ariane is an accomplished and highly respected researcher, analyst and journalist with over 20 years experience reporting on various issues in the IT industry. Her fields of expertise include Sustainable Information Technology, Telecommunications and Renewable Energy to name just a few. Ariane has been published by many well known publications (primarily in Germany) and has intimate knowledge of the IT industry which allows her to analyst and report from not just a technical perspective, but from an economic perspective too.
Web: http://nachhaltige-it.blog.de
Twitter: twitter.com/aruediger

rien dijkstra rien.dijkstra.atwork@gmail.comRien is an innovative technology professional with over 20 years of combined experience delivering results in various IT positions in different governmental and non-governmental organisations. He has a broad and longstanding experience in IT (services) in different roles and functions such as: system administrator, software engineer, system designer, DBA, project manager, consultant and architect. During the first years of his career he was mainly involved in software development. Later on his focus shifted to consultancy where he divided his attention to a number of differentiated IT subjects. After that he focused his attention to IT architecture as lead architect. The past years he has been focusing on developing and giving guidance to IT enterprise strategies. Currently, he is working as an Enterprise Architect. His main focus is on IT Vision and Strategy and the realisation of innovation.

bianca wirth blwirth@computersoff.orgBianca Wirth is the CEO of ComputersOff.ORG, a non-profit initiative dedicated to reducing technology's environmental impact; and founder of GreenITStrategy.com, the only Green IT information portal for Australians. Bianca has a degree in Environmental Science and is a certified provisional Environmental Auditor however since 1998 Bianca has held technology roles in major consulting companies and ISVs globally, including Microsoft. Bianca has led and managed teams of industry professionals; developed and implemented large technology strategies; and lead multi-million dollar projects. All the while, Bianca has earned her reputation as an advocate for green IT as she has put into practice the strategies she promotes. An accomplished speaker and writer, Bianca has written for magazines on technology and green IT issues, and presented to a wide range of audiences from industry, to academics, to school children on the importance of a greener IT future.

Dominique C. BrackGreenIT@807am.comDominique has been working in the field of security and risk management for over 15 years. His areas of specialization include IT risk management, security and controls optimization, IT governance, and compliance management. He is also a long standing member of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium, Inc. He worked on large scale Datacenter projects (Tier-4) in Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia. He has applied knowledge of the Green Grid principles, TIA-942 and including other relevant standards (i.e. ISO). He was working for Big 4 firms, providing information systems audit and sustainability services to large international organizations and public entities, specializing in developing controls and frameworks to deal with sustainability and risk management efforts. Mr. Brack was part of the team counselling News Corp Australia around its “One Degree” initiative. Mr. Brack is a frequent speaker at public and private sector venues including federal agencies, state and local governments, and Fortune 500 companies. He is passionate about sustainability as a discipline and the work involved with promoting the principles and spreading the word.