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Figure 75: ISES Board Meeting in Florida 2005

• Torben Esbensen from Denmark is elected ISES President for 2006-2007
• At the ISES Board Meeting held in conjunction with the Orlando Congress Rian van Staden steps down
as Executive Director of ISES after 4 years in the role. He had worked at ISES HQ since it moved to
Freiberg in 1995. Christine Hornstein was named the new Executive Director.

Figure 76: Christine Hornstein and Monica Oliphant

2006
• In April ISES helps to organise the 2nd International Solar Cities Congress, being held within the framework
of a Memorandum of Understanding between ISES and the city of Oxford.
• First Young ISES members’ meeting held during Eurosun 2006 in Glasgow, Scotland.
• ISES participates in the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) 14th session and hosts
a side-event focusing on renewable energy in developing countries.
• the new ISES vison statement is launched: Rapid Transition to a Renewable Energy World.

2007
• ISES inaugurates the Solar Carport at the Headquarters Office, Villa Tannheim in Freiburg.
• ISES hosts a side-event focusing on 100% renewable energy in Asia and Africa at the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development (CSD) 15 session held in New York April/May 2007.
• The SWC2007 was held in Beijing, China, co-hosted by the ISES Section, the Chinese Reneable Energy
Society.
• The name of the Löf/Duffie Best Paper Award for papers in Solar Energy journal is changed to Solar Energy
Journal Best Paper Awards. It is presented every second year at the SWCs to authors of papers that
demonstrate significant pioneering contributions to the solar energy literature, for innovative concepts or
approaches, and whose quality and presentation have a lasting impact.
• Larry Kazmerski received the Karl Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit for 2007 and gave an honory speech
at SWC 2007.
• Monica Oliphant from Australia is elected ISES President for 2008-2009 becoming only the second female
president of ISES.

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