Councillor Biographies
Dr. Hermann Scheer, President, EUROSOLAR, General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy; MP, Germany
Dr. Hermann Scheer has been a Member of the German Parliament since 1980. Since 1987 he has been a Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is President of the European Association for Renewable Energies (EUROSOLAR) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. Honours include the "World Solar" Prize (1998), the "Right Livelihood" Award (1999) and the "World Prize on Bio-Energy Biomass" (2000). He was named one of five Global Heroes for the Green Century by TIME Magazine in 2002, the only parliamentarian honoured thus. His books 'A Solar Manifesto' and 'Energy Autonomy' have been published in many languages.
Watch Hermann Scheer talk about the WFC here
