Dr. Pierce Riemer

Dr. Pierce Riemer was appointed Director General of the World Petroleum Council in 1999. He is responsible for the WPC secretariat and looking after its 60 member countries. He moved to the World Petroleum Council after eight years with the International Energy Agency, where he set up the Greenhouse Gas Programme in 1990 and was responsible for carbon dioxide capture and storage activities as well as other climate change related projects. He also had responsibility for the technical programmes, demonstration plants, JI, AIJ activities, and studies relating to greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sources at the IEA. During his time at the IEA he also helped set up a monitoring programme for the Sleipner carbon storage activities. He was the official Liaison with Oakridge National Laboratory (USA) for ETDE and was in charge of management and preparation of expert documents for PROMPT (The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies), for the European Commission. In addition he was part of the IEA delegation to the Kyoto protocol negotiations.

Before joining the IEA, Dr. Riemer was with the British Coal Corporation, where he was involved in the Environmental Branch and later the Corporate Planning Branch. Prior to this he worked on environmental projects and power generation and clean coal utililisation studies for the National Coal Board and Coal Products Ltd.

Dr. Riemer holds a PhD in Applied Chemistry (Gas to Liquids). He is a Chartered Chemist and a graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr. Riemer is the author of over 200 technical papers, more than 60 magazine features and 15 books. He also holds 8 patents.