Five Brazilians are on the list of the world’s 100 most influential people in bioenergy for 2011 - 2012, prepared by Biofuels Digest, one of the most prominent international newsletters covering renewable energy. Three of the five Brazilians ranked are in the top 25, including the President of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), Marcos Jank, who ranked 24th.
The list, based on votes submitted by Biofuels Digest readers around the world, is led for the second consecutive year by the United States Secretary of Agriculture and former Iowa State Governor, Tom Vilsack. Iowa is the biggest corn producer in the U.S. and the country’s leader in ethanol production.
The top-ranked Brazilian is the CEO of Raízen, Vasco Dias, in third position. The CEO of Petrobras Biofuels, Miguel Rossetto, is in 21st, while Brazilian President Dilma Roussef, appearing on the list for the first time, is in 36th. Completing the Brazilian contingent, the CEO of Cosan, Marcos Lutz, ranked 58th. The list includes names from 11 countries, who received votes from more than 400 Biofuels Digest readers.
“For the second consecutive year, readers and editors have emphatically selected U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack as the world’s most influential personality in bioenergy. This year, the voting focused on growth opportunities, including commercial and high technology organizations in Brazil and the United States,” said Jim Lane, editor and publisher of Biofuels Digest.
Ethanol Summit 2011
BP Biofuels CEO Phil New came in second in the Biofuels Digest. The list also includes the Amyris CEO John Melo; the President of the Bioenergy Institute at the University of California at Berkeley, Jay Keasiling; the CEO of Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla; the CEO of Italy's M&G Group, Guido Ghisolfi; the CEO of Virent Energy Systems, Lee Edwards; the global sustainable bioenergy researcher at Dartmouth University in the U.S., Lee Lynd and the President of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) in the U.S., Bob Dineen. All were speakers at the 2011 edition of the Ethanol Summit, organized by UNICA in Sao Paulo last June.
BP and Amyris are also participants in the award-winning AGORA Project, one of the most important communications and marketing initiatives in the sugar-energy industry in Brazil.
Here is the complete list of the world’s 100 most influential in bioenergy for 2011-2012, as voted by readers of Biofuels Digest:
1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture
2. Philip New, CEO, BP Biofuels; Sue Ellerbusch, President, BP Biofuels America
3. Vasco Dias, CEO, Raizen
4. Jeff Broin, CEO, POET
5. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme; Harrison Dillon, PhD, CTO
6. John Melo, CEO, Amyris; CTO Neil Renninger
7. Pat Gruber, PhD, CEO, Gevo; Jack Huttner, EVP Corporate Development and Public Affairs
8. Matti Lievonen, CEO, Neste Oil
9. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Energy
10. Alan Shaw, PhD, CEO, Codexis, Wes Bolsen, CMO
11. Bob Dinneen, President, Renewable Fuels Association
12. Brent Erickson, VP Industrial Biotechnology, BIO
13. Mike McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association
14. Vincent Chornet, CEO, Enerkem; Esteban Chornet, CTO
15. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, Lanzatech; Sean Simpson CTO, founder
16. Joe Jobe, CEO, National Biodiesel Board
17. Doug Cameron, Tom Erickson, co-presidents, First Green
18. Jay Keasling, PhD, Professor, UC Berkeley
19. Vinod Khosla, Managing Partner, Khosla Ventures
20. Fred Cannon, PhD, CEO, KiOR
21. Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto, CEO, Petrobras Biocombustivel
22. Wesley Clark, Co-chairman, Growth Energy / Tom Buis, CEO
23. Jim Rekoske, GM, Honeywell’s UOP
24. Marcos Jank, President, UNICA
25. Ray Mabus, US Secretary of the Navy
26. Guido Ghisolifi, CEO, Chemtex
27. Bruce Dale, PhD, Professor, Michigan State University
28. Javier Salgado, CEO, Abengoa Bioenergy
29. Chris Somerville, PhD, Professor, UC Berkeley Director, EBI
30. Jim Imbler, CEO, ZeaChem
31. Bill Glover, MD, Environmental Strategy Boeing
32. Paul Woods, CEO, Algenol Biofuels
33. Lee Edwards, CEO, Virent; Randy Cortright, PhD, CTO,
34. Jason Pyle, CEO, Sapphire Energy; Cynthia (C.J.) Warner, President
35. Gary Luce, CEO, Terrabon
36. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
37. Mary Rosenthal, Exec Director, Algal Biomass Organization
38. Brooke Coleman, Executive Director, Advanced Ethanol Council
39. Rich Altman, Exec Director, CAAFI
40. Ed Dineen, CEO, LS9
41. Bill Brady, CEO, Mascoma; Michael Ladisch CTO
42. Jim Gillingham, Sr, VP, Biofuels Valero
43. Steen Riisgaard, CEO, Novozymes
44. Bill Roe, CEO, Coskata
45. Jim Macias, CEo, Fulcrum Bioenergy
46. Richard Hamilton, CEO, Ceres
47. Peter Williams, CEO, Mark Niederschulte, COO, INEOS Bio
48. Lee Lynd, PhD, Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College
49. Christophe Schilling, CEO, Genomatica
50. Nancy Young, VP, Environmental Affairs, Air Transport Association; John Heimlich Chief Economist
51. Bill Sims, CEO, Joule Unlimited
52. Hunt Ramsbottom, CEO, Rentech
53. Niels Henriksen, CEO, Inbicon
54. Bill Lese, MD, Braemar Energy Ventures
55. Jose Olivares, PhD, Director, National Alliance For Advanced Biofuels and Bio-Products
56. Tim Cesarak, MD, Organic Growth Group, Waste Management
57. K’Lynne Johnson, CEO, Elevance Renewable Sciences
58. Marcos Lutz, CEO, Cosan
59. Robert Brown, PhD, Professor, Iowa State University
60. Bill Hagy, Director, USDA Director of Alternate Energy Policy; Dallas Tonsager, USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development; Sarak Bittleman, Sr, Advisor, USDA
61. Matt Horton, CEO, Propel Fuels
62. Valerie Reed, DOE Biomass Program
63. John May, Stern Brothers; Mark Riedy, Mintz Levin; John Kirkwood, Kreig DeVault
64. Gary Roth, CEO, Syntroleum
65. Todd Becker, CEo, Green Plains Renewable Energy, Tim Burns, CEO, BioProcess Algae
66. Rob Vierhout, Secretary General, EBIO
67. Tom Foust, PhD, NREL; Director, National Advanced Biofuels Consortium
68. Steve Burrill, Managing Partner, Burrill & Co; John Hamer, PhD, Managing Director; Roger Wyse, Managing Director; Greg Young, Managing Director, Ganesh Kishore, PhD, CEO, Malaysian Life Sciences Fund
69. Jim Matheson, General Partner, Flagship Ventures; David Berry, PhD, Partner
70. Heather Brodie, CEO, Biofuels Association of Australia
71. Kirk Haney, CEO, SG Biofuels
72. John Doerr, Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins
73. Paul Bryan, former Program Manager, DOE Biomass Program
74. Jim Sayre, Senior MD, Cargill Ventures
75. Tjerk de Ruiter, CEO, Genencor
76. Neil Gutterson, CEO, Mendel Biotechnologies
77. Sean O’Hanlon, Executive Director, American Biofuels Council
78. Pramod Chaudhari, Executive Chairman, Praj Industries
79. Bob Mayer, CEO, Cobalt Technologies
80. Kef Kasdin, CEO, Proterro, Mike Hamilton, CEO, Renmatix, Andrew Richard, CEO, Comet Biorefining
81. Todd Taylor, Partner, Fredrickson & Byron
82. Kelly Tiller, CEO, Genera Energy
83. Jim Dumesic, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
84. Kevin Berner, CEO, Phycal
85. John Plaza, CEo, Imperium Renewables
86. Barry Cohen, Executive Director, National Algae Association
87. Daphne Preuss, CEO, Chromatin
88. Joanne Ivancic, Exec Dir, Advanced Biofuels USA
89. Philip Pienkos, PhD, NREL
90. Rafael Garofallo, Secretary General, EBB
91. Arnold Klann, CEO, Bluefire Renewables
92. John Benemann, PhD, CEO, Benemann Associates
93. Chas Eggert, CEO, OPX Biotechnologies
94. Thomas Maschmayer, co-founder, Ignite Energy
95. Philip Wolfe, CEO, UK Renewable Energy Association
96. Xiucai Liu, CEO, Cathay Industrial Bioetchnology
97. Jim Stewart, Chairman, Bioenergy Producers Association
98. Riggs Eckelberry, CEO, OriginOil
99. Mark Emalfarb, CEO, Dyadic
100. Susan Pond, Director, Dow US Studies Center, University of Sydney
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