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Who's Who

The International Polar Foundation (IPF)  |  The IPF & antarctica.org team


ANTARCTICA.ORG IS A PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLAR FOUNDATION

The International Polar Foundation

The International Polar Foundation (IPF) is headquartered in Brussels and has local antennas in France, Switzerland and in the United Kingdom. The Foundation has been founded in 2002 by the Belgian explorer-writer Alain Hubert who is also its chairman. IPF has been recognized as a "Fondation d'Utilité Publique" by the belgian authorities.
The development of Canadian and US antennae is currently in progress. For detailed contact information, please have a look at our IPF team page. If you are interesed in International Polar Foundation structure, please consult the IPF and the Polaris Centre pages.

Our mission

To communicate and educate on the reality of climate change through the findings of Polar sciences and thereby convince society to act responsibly now to ensure a sustainable world for future generations.

Polar Regions & Climate Change

The International Polar Foundation believes that the polar regions and polar sciences are the best tools to convince our society to act now in order to mitigate the effects of climate change for future generations:

  • The polar regions play a key role in the global climate system of our planet;
  • The polar regions are our early warning systems in showing the pace and magnitude of climate change;
  • The polar regions are our archives. Earth's climate memory is recorded in their ice.

Activities

The IPF communicates with the general public on research in the polar regions through:

  • Information: developing, supporting and encouraging projects that inform the public about polar science and how it improves understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change.
  • Education: developing, supporting and encouraging innovative educational projects and materials to sti
  • mulate a positive public attitude towards polar science and action on climate change. This recognises the particular importance of outreach to the next generation which will experience the impacts of climate change on a great scale.
  • Demonstration: developing, supporting and encouraging projects offering constructive responses to sustainable development issues. The IPF also seeks to lead by example - in the IPF's own activities the best available methods and techniques for clean development are used wherever possible.

Our wider objectives are:

  • To stimulate and lend support to the preoccupations and concerns of individuals and society, in seeking credible and ethical avenues of progress towards the future;
  • To rehabilitate the place of science in society, as a positive force for human and technological progress necessary for addressing the challenges of the twenty first century;
  • To raise public awareness of the reality of a changing World, and the role of scientific research, in understanding the processes causing the changes;
  • To demonstrate, by tangible examples, how human behaviour might be modified in order to mitigate the effects of coming changes;
  • To address the issues raised with regard to the consequences of a changing planet and adaptation to the effects of climate change, underlining the role that science and technology will play in helping to find solutions;
  • To stress the importance of scientific education for all to allow elementary but vital concepts, affecting the role of every individual in society, to be assimilated so that there is universal agreement and cooperation on the future direction of society;
  • To stress the importance of reviewing educational priorities and strategies so that the workforce has the skills necessary for the evolving economy;
  • To aim for a greater emphasis on investment in research so that the evolving needs of society with regard to cleaner and more efficient technologies can be met, generating a powerful new wave of innovation in industrial products and processes.

The IPF team

The IPF is an international organisation headquartered in Brussels. It is also established in other countries via local offices in Brussels (Belgium), Cambridge (Great-Britain), Geneva (Switzerland) and Paris (France). Hereunder is the list of the IPF staff.

Bruxelles (Belgium)

Nighat Amin
Global Strategies Director
International Affairs
Tel.: +32 (0)2 358 20 50
Fax: +32 (0)2 358 59 50
E-mail: gg@polarfoundation.org

Johan Berte
Antarctic Station Project Manager
Tel.: +32 (0)476 84 70 86
Fax: +32 (0)16 77 70 32
E-mail: johan.berte@polarfoundation.org

Michel Brent
Journalist & webmaster, Antarctica.org
Tel.: +32 (0)2 346 38 06
E-mail: michel.brent@antarctica.org

Gauthier Chapelle
Scientific Liaison Officer
Phone: +32 (0)2 543 06 98
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: gauthier.chapelle@polarfoundation.org

Jérôme Coupé
Communications & Multimedia
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 97 33
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: jerome.coupe@polarfoundation.org

Thomas De Sterck
Logistics co-ordinator
Phone : +32 (0)476 920.114
Fax : +32 (0)16 777.032
E-mail: thomas.desterck@polarfoundation.org

 

Richard de Ferranti
Journalist
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 97 36
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: richard.deferranti@polarfoundation.org

Philippe Gosseries
Head of Communications
Phone: +32 (0)2 543 06 98
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: philippe.gosseries@polarfoundation.org

Martin Hubert
Communications & Multimedia
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 97 33
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: martin.hubert@polarfoundation.org

Thierry Touchais
Executive Director
Phone: +32 (0)2 543 06 98
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: thierry.touchais@polarfoundation.org

Sandra Vanhove
Scientific Officer
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 97 36
Fax: +32 (0)2 543 06 99
E-mail: sandra.vanhove@polarfoundation.org


Paris (France)

Agnès Levillain
Museologist
Phone: +33 (0)3 80 33 48 60
E-mail: agnes.levillain@polarfoundation.org

Pierre Morize
Museologist
Phone: +33 (0) 1 69 28 14 52
E-mail: pierre.morize@polarfoundation.org

 

Thierry Touchais
Chargé de mission
Phone: +33 (0) 1 49 49 00 31
Fax: +33 (0)1 40 22 08 38
E-mail: thierry.touchais@polarfoundation.org


Geneva (Switzerland)

Laurent Dubois
Education & IPF Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)22 793 79 60
Mobile: +41 (0)76 343 34 63
E-mail: laurent.dubois@polarfoundation.org

 

Agathe Weber
Scientific Officer
Phone: +41 (0)22 321 73 47
Mobile: +41 (0)78 850 34 63
E-mail: agathe.weber@polarfoundation.org


Cambridge (Great-Britain)

Jean de Pomereu
Managing Director
Phone: +44 (0)20 887 44 824
E-mail: jean.depomereu@polarfoundation.org