Nobel, who will deliver a speech during the forum slated for May 13 at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, is expected to share his perspectives on the building of energy-management platforms for higher energy efficiency and the development of alternative energies, according to the Taiwan Architecture and Building Center (TABC), one of the two sponsors of the forum.

The other sponsor is the Taiwan Society of Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

The 68-year-old Nobel, a citizen of both Sweden and Switzerland, has international scientific and commercial experience in fields ranging from life science, satellite communications, and Internet services to finance and investment, management information, and crisis management.

He participated in the introduction of magnetic resonance imaging at Fonar Corporation in 1980 and has since maintained his interest in the field as CEO of a group of companies that perform diagnostic imaging services.

In addition he is on the board of 12 international companies in diagnostics, treatment, investments, and information systems in the medical field.

Nobel also participates in many humanitarian projects internationally. He is the board chairman of the Non-Violence Project Foundation, a worldwide nonprofit organization focused on changing children’s attitudes and behavior regarding gratuitous violence.

He is also chairman of ANPPW, an American foundation collaborating with the United Nations, UNESCO and UNICEF, and is also head of the Nobel Family in his role as chairman of the board of the family society.

Nobel’s speech will be a timely one, given efforts by governments all over the world to fight global warming, which is the product of massive emissions of carbon dioxide.

In fact, former U.S. vice president Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize for promoting the fight against global warming in the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

In Taiwan, people have also become more aware of the harm and dangers of global warming, with President-elect Ma Ying-jeou promising to reduce the level of CO2 emissions to half that of 2000 by 2050.

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