 
Susan Hockfield
MIT President, Welcoming Remarks
Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.
A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.
Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research.
 Jeffrey Immelt
CEO of General Electric
Jeffrey R. Immelt, 50, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE. Mr. Immelt, the 9th Chairman in GE's 128-year history, was appointed to this post on September 7, 2001. Previously, Mr. Immelt served as President and Chairman-elect of GE starting in November 2000.
He began his GE career in 1982. Over the last 24 years, Mr. Immelt has held a series of global leadership roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. He became an Officer of GE in 1989, and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.
In 2005 and 2006, Barron’s named Mr. Immelt one of the World’s Best CEO’s. Under his leadership, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” in a poll conducted by FORTUNE magazine and the world's most respected company in polls conducted by Barron's and the Financial Times.
He serves as Chairman of The Business Council and is on the board of three non-profit organizations: Catalyst, devoted to advancing women in business; and Robin Hood, focused on addressing poverty in New York City; and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Mr. Immelt holds a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College (1978) and an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1982). He and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter.
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 Daniel Yergin
Chairman & Co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA)
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics and economics and on energy. Dr. Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.” He is both a world-recognized author and a business leader, as chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms in its field. He is also executive vice president of IHS, the parent company of CERA.
Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States. The book has been translated into 12 languages.
Dr. Yergin plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He chaired the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association, and a member of the National Petroleum Council and this year became the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas. He is also one of the “Wise Men” of the International Gas Union.
He is CNBC’s Global Energy Expert.
In November 2005 Dr. Yergin was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining “an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community.”
Of Dr. Yergin’s most recent book, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy , the Wall Street Journal said, “No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II.” It has been translated into 13 languages. Dr. Yergin led the team that turned it into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary -- the major PBS television series on globalization. The series received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold WorldMedal for best documentary.
Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and on the Board of the New America Foundation, a Director of the US-Russia Business Council and on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Economics.
Dr. Yergin received his BA from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Dr. Yergin co-founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates, now an IHS company. Its offices are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Beijing, Calgary, Dubai, Mexico City, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.
 Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding
Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems. Starting in
1980 when he worked on changing the state of the art of
Electrical Computer Aided Design at Daisy Systems, to 1982
when he founded Sun Microsystems, Vinod played a role in
the commercialization of reduced instruction set computing
(RISC) processors, the "open systems" philosophy,
TCP/IP public networks. As a General Partner of Kleiner
Perkins for many years he helped build the firm’s
foray’s in many areas of technology innovation. In
2005 he formed Khosla Ventures in order to operate with
more flexibility. He continues to maintain a close relationship
with Kleiner Perkins (www.kpcb.com ) and remains a General
Partner of the existing funds (KPCB IV-X).
He joined the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers in 1986 to work with innovative technologies
and entrepreneurs, helping them and guiding them in the
process of building durable companies. As a self-termed
"venture assistant", he has since helped develop
many entrepreneurial ventures including the Intel compatible
product line sold by AMD, the IP Routing product line of
Juniper that forms the backbone of the internet, and many
other ventures in communications, computing, consumer and
internet technologies. He has a passion for nascent technologies
that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on
society. Vinod serves on the boards of a number of the companies
which he has assisted, including EASIC (programmable ASIC
platform www.easic.com ), Infinera (optical communications
www.infinera.com ), Kovio (printed electronics www.kovio.com
), Skyblue (internet PC) Spatial Photonics (Micromirror
displays), Xsigo (datacenter switch www.xsigo.com ), among
others. Vinod’s greatest passion is being a mentor
to entrepreneurs, helping them build technology based businesses.
Vinod is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global
network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992
that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries.
He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School
of Business. His current passion is Social Entrepreneurship
with a special emphasis on Microfinance as a poverty alleviation
tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations
in India and Africa. Vinod is also passionate about alternative
energy, independence from petroleum, and the environment.
Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a
Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon
University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School
of Business.
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Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Correspondent, Economist
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist.
He joined the magazine’s staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992. He opened its first office in that region in Mexico City, and served as bureau chief until 1997. As the newspaper’s Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. His portfolio now includes global health, pharmaceuticals and innovation.
Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the selection committee for CFR’s annual Arthur Ross Book Award. He teaches at NYU’s Stern Business School, and is a regular commentator on Marketplace radio, in the Wall Street Journal and at other media outlets.
He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” (www.vijaytothepeople.com). Harvard’s John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it “by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available.” Vijay’s next book, “ZOOM: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future”, co-authored with Economist colleague Iain Carson, will be published in autumn 2007.
Vijay’s book and magazine articles have received various prizes in America and abroad. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Madras, India, and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He now lives in New York.
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Chansoo Joung
Managing Director, Energy Group, Warburg Pincus
Chansoo Joung is a managing director of Warburg Pincus LLC, where he has been employed since September 2005. Previously, he was head of the Americas Natural Resources Group (Energy and Power practice) in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1987 and served in the Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions departments and also founded and led the European Energy Group. Mr. Joung is on the board of directors of Targa Resources, Inc., Broad Oak Energy and Floridian Gas Storage Company.
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Dr. Charles L. Cooney
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles L. Cooney is Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is the Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, Co-Director of the Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry (POPI) and MIT faculty director of the Consortium on Advanced Manufacturing for Pharmaceuticals (CAMP). He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. His Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemical Engineering are from MIT in 1967, and 1970, respectively. After a short post-doctoral time at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in 1970, he joined the faculty of MIT as an Assistant Professor in 1970 and became a full Professor in 1982. He received the 1989 Gold Medal of the Institute of Biotechnological Studies (London), the Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the James Van Lanen Distinguished Service Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Microbial and Biochemical Technology and was elected to the American Institute of Medical and Biochemical Engineers. He serves as a consultant to a number of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, is on several editorial boards of professional journals, sits on the Boards of Directors of Genzyme, BioProcessors and Biocon, Ltd (India), is a member of the BP Technical Advisory Council. He chaired the FDA Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science from 2004-2006.
Prof. Cooney's research interests span a range of topics in biochemical engineering and pharmaceutical manufacturing. He has published over 300 research papers, over 30 patents and co-authored or edited 5 books including the recently published Development of Sustainable Bioprocesses: Modeling and Assessment, Wiley Press 2006. He has particular interest in bioreactor design, operation and control, downstream processing for recovery of biological products, processing of pharmaceutical powders and manufacturing strategy in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry and biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals. As founding faculty director of the Deshpande Center he is interested in the process of stimulating technological innovation and translating innovation into new company creation.
In addition to his professional interests, Prof. Cooney is a Trustee of Boston Ballet, and an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other interests include rock climbing, skiing, high altitude mountaineering (with assents of Denali, Ama Dablam, Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro, Huascaran), scuba diving and antique map collecting.
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Philip G. New
President, Global Biofuels, BP plc
Philip New leads BP’s recently established Biofuels business. The business is intended to position BP as a leader in the Biofuels industry; defining and implementing a business development strategy, establishing a distinctive and progressive voice in the shaping of the industry, investing in capability and capacity growth, and building strategic relationships.
Since joining BP from Oxford University in 1983, Philip has had a range of general management roles in Europe and Asia. He played a central role in the creation of BP’s lubricant business, including the acquisition of Burmah-Castrol in 2000 and the extraction of activities from Mobil in Europe, and went on to manage BP’s business-to-business sales and marketing operations in Europe and North America.
Before moving to head up BP’s Biofuels activities he lead the team that laid down BP’s core fuels product strategy and which developed and launched BP’s highly successful premium fuel – BP Ultimate – in 15 countries around the world.
Philip lives in Oxford with his wife and three children.
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Dr. Robin L. Graham
Group Leader, Oak Ridge National Lab
A 1976 undergraduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Robin L. Graham received her PhD in forest ecology in 1981 from Oregon State University with Dr. Jerry Franklin. Following her degree, she worked for Weyerhaeuser Company in the State of Washington in the Timberlands R&D Division. She was responsible for vegetation management research both in the nurseries and in the western plantations.
In 1986 she joined the Environmental Science Division (ESD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Between 1986 and 1993 she worked on a variety of research topics including NEPA assessments, use of satellite imagery to detect forest productivity and deforestation, and the impacts of global warming on forests. From 1993 to 2004 she did research and analysis for the DOE Office of Biomass Program in EERE. She was the Biofuels Feedstock Development Task Leader for integrated bioenergy assessments. Her role has been to analyze the potential for and constraints to bioenergy feedstock economic competitiveness and to assess the extent to which social goals such as clean water, protected soils, jobs, national security can be satisfied with bioenergy feedstocks. Most recently she estimated potential US corn stover supplies (Graham et al. 2007. Agron J. 99:1-11). Between 1995 and 1997 she also served as an Activity leader on the International Energy Agreement working on non-technical barriers to bioenergy systems.
She was an author of the 2005 joint DOE USDA publication “Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: the Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply.” She is currently the ORNL PI of the DOE multi-lab study on Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) and the manager of the ORNL NASA Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Cycling.
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Mark Stowers
Vice President, Research and Development, Broin Companies
Mark D. Stowers, Ph.D. joined the Broin Companies’ team in October of 2006 as the Vice President of Research and Development and will be responsible for overseeing scientific and technology advancement for the company. Stowers came to Broin from Lansing, Mich., where he served as President and CEO of MBI International since 2001. MBI International is a leading firm focused on the development, scale-up, and commercialization of products from biotechnology.
While at MBI International, Stowers guided an organization that developed new agricultural chemicals, food ingredients, drug intermediates, polymers and structural materials. MBI is a private, non-profit research and development institute that develops and commercializes agricultural biotechnology to increase farm productivity and bring to market food and pharmaceutical products that help reduce dependence on petroleum feedstocks. Stowers was involved in numerous projects funded through the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A native of Houston, Texas, Stowers graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor of Science in biology before earning his Master of Science and Ph.D. in microbiology from North Carolina State University. He completed post-doctoral studies at Cornell University’s Boyce Thompson Institute.
Stowers has spent the majority of his career in the biotechnology field, including contributing to the creation of industry guidelines for the regulation of food and food processing to assure the safety of foods produced by genetic modification. His guidelines were adopted by the Food and Drug Administration in 1992.
Stowers began his professional career with NPI in 1983 as a senior project leader. In 1986, he went to work for Eastman Kodak Company where he held numerous positions until 1989 when Stowers began his eight-year career with Monsanto. From 1996-2000, Stowers worked or Seminis, Inc., before moving on to MBI International.
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Doug Cameron
Chief Scientific Officer, Khosla Ventures
Dr. Douglas C. Cameron is the Chief Scientific Officer of Khosla Ventures in Menlo Park, California. He is on the board of directors of Mascoma, Inc., a cellulosic ethanol company. He is also on the boards of Gevo, Inc. and LS9, Inc., companies focused on alternative biofuels. From 1986 to 1998, he was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he established a research program in the areas of metabolic engineering and fermentation technology and did pioneering work on the microbial production of industrial chemicals. In 1998, Cameron moved to Cargill, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN where he built the Cargill Biotechnology Development Center and led biotechnology research until 2006. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is on the managing board of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), the board of directors of the Biobusiness Alliance of Minnesota and the outside advisory board of the Iowa Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing. Cameron is on the editorial board of the journal, Metabolic Engineering. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Wisconsin and a consulting professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Cameron received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986.
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Prof. H.D. (Jake) Jacoby
Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
An undergraduate mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Formerly Director of the Harvard Environmental Systems Program, Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Associate Director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, and Chair of the MIT Faculty.
Professor Jacoby has made contributions to the study of policy and management in the areas of energy, natural resources and environment writing widely on these topics, including five books. Public involvement has included Chairmanship of the Massachusetts Governor's Emergency Energy Technical Advisory Committee (1973-74); and service on the National Petroleum Council (1975-83), the Climatic Impact Committee of the National Academy of Sciences (1973-75), the AAAS Panel on Climate and Water Resources (1986-89), the NAS/NAE Committee on Alternative Energy R&D Strategies (1989-90), a study by the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment of "Systems at Risk from Climate Change (1992-93), an NRC Panel on Metrics for Global Change Research (2004-05), and the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (2006- ). In 1998-99 he was Environmental Fellow of the American Council on Capital Formation.
His current research and teaching is focused on economic analysis of climate change and its integration with scientific and policy aspects of the issue.
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 Prof. Martin Zimmerman
Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Commissioner, National Commission on Energy Policy
Former Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Ford Motor Company
Dr. Martin B. Zimmerman is Clinical Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan. He retired in 2004 from the Ford Motor Company as Group Vice President, Corporate Affairs, a position to which he was appointed on November 7, 2001. In that position he was responsible for Corporate Economics, Governmental Affairs, Environmental and Safety Engineering, Corporate Citizenship and the Ford Motor Company Fund.
Zimmerman was previously Vice President, Governmental Affairs, a position he assumed on January 1, 1999. Prior to this, Zimmerman was Executive Director, Governmental Relations and Corporate Economics, since January 1994.
Zimmerman joined Ford in August 1987 as the company's chief economist. Before joining Ford, he was a professor and Chairman of the Business Economics Department at the University of Michigan's Graduate School of Business Administration.
Zimmerman joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1983 and became Chairman of Business Economics in 1985. He interrupted that assignment to serve one year as Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors from September 1985 to September 1986. From 1988 to 1992 Zimmerman served on the Advisory Council of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration. He was a faculty member in the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. before joining the University of Michigan.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, the National Commission on Energy Policy, and the board of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also served on the Panel of Economic Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office, as Business Co-Chair of the Transatlantic Policy Network, and on the Boards of Directors of Business for Social Responsibility, the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan and the Detroit Metropolitan Visitors and Convention Bureau. He is also a past recipient of the Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Award.
Zimmerman received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1967 and a doctorate degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.
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Joe Goffman
Legislative Director, Office of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
Joe Goffman currently serves as Legislative Director for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (I/D- CT), for whom he also served as environmental counsel in 2005. Goffman had previously served in the 101st Congress as associate counsel to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works under the direction of Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and Senator George Mitchell (D-ME). In that post, he was principally responsible for developing and drafting Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. After a year at the US EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, Goffman spent 12 years as a senior attorney and program manager at Environmental Defense where he specialized in market-based approaches to climate change and air pollution, many of which are now reflected in the framework of the Kyoto protocol and in federal legislative proposals for climate change. Goffman also practiced commercial litigation at the firm of Weil, Gotshal and Manges in New York. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
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Michael J. Murray
Director - Corporate Legislative Policy, Sempra Energy
Mr. Murray is the Director of Corporate Legislative Policy for Sempra Energy. He manages the development of corporate policy as it relates to, federal and state government actions for all the Sempra business units.
Mr. Murray has been involved in permitting, construction, and operation of energy facilities, and development of sound energy policy for 25 years. He started his career as a field project engineer with Combustion Engineering where he was involved in the construction of large central station coal and nuclear electric generating plants. He has worked as a consultant in the energy and petroleum industry advising clients on environmental and regulatory matters in the permitting and construction of major facility projects.
He joined Pacific Enterprises, now Sempra Energy, in 1984 as a local government affairs manager for their natural gas processing operations in Santa Barbara, California. In 1995, he became a lobbyist for Sempra Energy, representing the company’s interests on energy and environmental issues in Sacramento and other states. In 2002, he was named Director of Environmental & Safety Policy and Compliance where he managed the development and implementation of corporate environmental and safety policies. In 2004, he was named Director of Corporate Legislative Policy. In his current capacity, he manages the development of corporate legislative policy.
Mr. Murray holds a Bachelors of Science degree in chemical engineering, an MBA and a JD. He is a member of the California State Bar and a licensed general contractor in the state of California.
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Travis Bradford
Founder, President and Director,
Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development
Travis founded the Prometheus Institute in 2003 as a means to connect the vast reach and power of industrial and capital markets with the technologies necessary to sustain and develop long-term economic well-being for people around the world. Travis is currently the Editor-in-Chief of PVNews, the solar energy industry’s oldest newsletter, and is the author of Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry published by MIT Press. He is also a partner at Atlas Capital, a hedge fund based in Cambridge, MA.
Prior to founding the Prometheus Institute, Travis was a partner at Steel Partners II, L.P., a hedge fund based in New York City focused on the acquisition, growth, and sale of small publicly traded and privately owned businesses. In this capacity, Travis served as both a board member and active management participant in these types of businesses in industries ranging from industrial filters to fertilizer distributors to financial service providers. Travis has worked for the Federal Reserve Bank, has lectured at top Universities including Columbia University, Duke University, New York University, and Harvard University on finance, entrepreneurship, and alternative energy economics.
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Richard Swanson
Co-Founder, President, and CTO,
SunPower
Dr. Swanson co-founded SunPower in 1985. He has served as the company’s president and chief technology officer since June 2003, and was a member of the board of directors from 1985 through 2002. Previously, Dr. Swanson held the position of SunPower’s president and chief executive officer from 1991 to 2003, and vice president and director of technology from 1990 to 1991. He was professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University from 1976 to 1991. Dr. Swanson holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and both a bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.
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Charles Gay, Ph.D.
Vice President and General Manager, Solar Business Group, Applied Materials
Charlie Gay was named corporate vice president and general manager of the Solar Business Group at Applied Materials in 2006. An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the solar industry, Dr. Gay is responsible for establishing and building Applied Materials’ solar business.
Dr. Gay is also a co-founder of the Greenstar Foundation, an organization that delivers solar power and internet access for health, education and microenterprise projects to small villages in the developing world. Greenstar has been recognized for its innovation by the World Bank, the Stockholm Challenge, the Technology Empowerment Network and the Tech Museum Awards.
Dr. Gay began his career in 1975 designing solar power system components for communications satellites at Spectrolab, Inc. and later joined ARCO Solar, where he established the research and development program and led the commercialization of single crystal silicon and thin film technologies. In 1990, Dr. Gay became president and chief operating officer of Siemens Solar Industries and from 1994 to 1997, he served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the world’s leading laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and technology. In 1997, Dr. Gay served as president and chief executive officer of ASE Americas, Inc., and in 2001 became chairman of the advisory board at SunPower Corporation.
Dr. Gay has a doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Riverside. He holds numerous patents for solar cell and module construction and is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Achievement from the World Renewable Energy Congress.
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Rhone Resch
President, Solar Energy Industries Assocation
Rhone Resch is the President of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association of the solar energy industry. In this capacity he is responsible for managing all aspects the trade association and ensuring their success in advancing solar energy in the U.S. SEIA serves as the voice of solar energy in the United States and is responsible for all market analysis and lobbying on behalf of the solar industry with Congress and the Administration, and was responsible for the creation of the residential and commercial tax credits in the 2005 Energy Policy Act. SEIA also orchestrates public campaigns working with the media to help shape public support for solar energy.
Mr. Resch has over 15 years of experience in clean energy and energy efficiency, both in the private sector and the federal government. Prior to coming to SEIA, he was Senior Vice President of the Natural Gas Supply Association, a trade association that represents both major and independent companies that produce and market natural gas.
In addition he has served as Program Manager at the EPA’s Climate Protection Division in the Office of Air and Radiation, where he developed and implemented energy efficiency programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hazardous air pollutants from the petroleum industry.
He also sits on the boards of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Global PV Solar Energy Council, and is Chairman of the Western Governors Association Solar Energy Task Force.
He holds an MPA in Management from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, a Master of Environmental Engineering from SUNY Syracuse, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Lisa and two children and has a 6 kW photovoltaic system on his home.
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Jigar Shah
CEO,
SunEdison
Jigar Shah, CEO, has extensive experience in both the PV solar and wind industries. Until he resigned in 2003 to found SunEdison, Jigar worked in mergers & acquisitions, corporate strategy, and sales - specializing in national commercial accounts - for industry giant, BP Solar. Along with working for the Department of Energy on alternative vehicle and fuel cell programs, Jigar has worked in an engineering capacity for both AstroPower, the largest publicly traded pure-play PV solar company, and Atlantic Orient Corporation, a leader in the medium sized wind turbine market. Jigar has a MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.
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Richard Ward
Senior Director of Research - Upstream Strategy, Costs and Technology
CERA - Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Richard Ward, is Senior Director of Research for the IHS-CERA Cost
Research Group in addition to the CERA Upstream Technology Practice. He
is an expert in oil and gas exploration and production information
technologies, including strategic applications, market advantage, and
financial strategies of technology use.
Mr. Ward has served with CERA for six years and worked on a broad range
of projects and studies. He joined CERA from NetworkOil, where he served
as CIO and Vice President of Technology, as well as Rice University
where he was an Adjunct Professor with the Jones School of Business.
Previously with Landmark Graphics, a division of Halliburton, Mr. Ward
managed operations in Latin America, Indonesia, and the United States
for seven years. Mr. Ward is on several industry steering committees and
is a frequent contributor to publications such as The Economist, the
Financial Times of London, and The Wall Street Journal. He holds a BA in
Physics from Rice University.
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Nancy Lever
Managing Director, Non Conventional Group, ARC Financial
Nancy has been involved in the energy sector for more than 25 years and has an extensive range of experience covering oil and gas exploration and production, business development, marketing, research and frontier development. Nancy's principal responsibilities involve the origination, structuring, execution, monitoring and exit of investments in the infrastructure, power and non-conventional resource segments.
• Joined ARC in 1993, primarily involved in our corporate advisory business through 1997.
• Currently represents ARC on the boards of North American Oilsands Corporation, Reveal Resources Ltd. and TSC Company Ltd.
• Prior to joining ARC, was engaged in various operating and management roles with a major integrated oil company. Prior to that, worked in the electric utility industry.
• Education includes an M.B.A. from the University of Calgary and a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University.
• Institute of Corporate Directors, Institute-Certified Director, ICD.D
• Member of the Board of Directors for Mount Royal College.
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Stephen Mut
CEO of the Shell Unconventional Resources Unit
Stephen R. Mut serves as Vice President of Shell Exploration & Production, Unconventional Resources, based in Denver, Colorado. He is leading a team to research and develop a new enhanced recovery method in northwestern Colorados oil shale resources. The Mahogany Research Project, as it is known, is field-testing the technical and environmental viability of Shell's in situ (in ground) process.
Steve Mut dedicated much of his career to operational and new business venture activities in the oil and gas, refining and marketing, chemical and mining sectors at ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company) prior to joining Shell in 2000. There, he served in various internationally based executive roles in both upstream and downstream businesses. His global expertise has contributed to industry success around the world from Europe to South America to the Asia Pacific as well as in the United States. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he earned a Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Environmental Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Mut has served in various positions for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, The National Mining Association, The Western Regional Council, the United Way of Denver, the Boy Scouts, and the Nature Conservancy. Mut and his wife, Neyeska, have two sons, Neal and Stephen. The Mut family lives in the Denver area.
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Harold Wright
Chief Technology Officer, Rentech Inc.
Harold A. Wright serves as the Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer of Rentech Inc. In that role, Dr. Wright is responsible for the technology development and research related to coal to liquids, Fischer Tropsch, and other technologies.
Prior to joining Rentech in 2007, Dr. Wright was the Vice President Technology for Eltron Research Inc. from 2005 2007. Eltron Research develops technology related to energy and chemicals, advanced materials, and environmental remediation and monitoring. Dr. Wright spent 14 years with Conoco and then ConocoPhillips from 1991 2005. In his last assignment at ConocoPhillips, Dr. Wright was the Director of Gas to Liquids Research and Development. He supervised an R&D staff of 75 to develop and successfully scale up their Gas to Liquids technology.
Dr. Wright has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri Columbia. He is the inventor on 23 issued U.S. Patents and is a registered patent agent. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
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Dan Woynillowicz
Senior Policy Analyst, The Pembina Institute
Dan Woynillowicz is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Pembina Institute. Dan joined the Pembina Institute in 2001 as an environmental policy analyst in the Energy Watch Program. Since 2003, he has led the Institute's oil sands policy research and advocacy work. Dan acts as a frequent media spokesperson for the Institute and has presented expert testimony regarding the environmental impacts of oil sands development before both provincial and federal regulatory review panels. He completed a BSc in Environmental Science (University of Calgary) and an MA in Environment and Management (Royal Roads University). As a Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council scholar Dan's graduate research focused on corporate environmental strategy in the Canadian oil and gas sector.
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Prof. John Heywood
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Director, MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory
Professor Heywood did his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University and his graduate work at MIT. He then worked for the British Central Electricity Generating Board on magnetohydrodynamic power generation.
Since 1968 he has been a faculty member at MIT, where is he now Director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory and Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In January 2003, Professor Heywood was appointed Co-Director of the Ford-MIT Alliance. He is also now co-directing MIT's Mechanical Engineering Department's Center for 21st Century Energy, which is developing a broader set of energy research initiatives.
Professor Heywood's current research is focused on the operating, combustion, and emissions characteristics, and the fuels requirements of internal combustion engines. He is involved in studies of automotive technology and the impact of regulation. He has also worked on issues relating to engine design in MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing Program; he was Engineering Co-Director of the Program from 1991-1993, and is currently involved in studies of future road transportation technology and fuels.
He has published over 190 papers in the technical literature and has won several awards for his research publications. He is a author of a major text and professional reference "Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals," and co-author with Professor Sher of "The Two-Stroke Cycle Engine: Its Development, Operation, and Design." He holds a Sc.D. degree from Cambridge University for his published research contributions.
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K. G. Duleep
Managing Director – Transportation, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc.
Mr. Duleep, Managing Director, Transportation, is an internationally recognized expert on vehicular fuel economy and emissions issues. He has been involved with automotive technology, fuel economy, and emissions issues for over 20 years and has directed studies evaluating new technologies for vehicular engine and fuel combinations including methanol, natural gas, and other alternative fueled vehicles. He has been directly involved in EEA's development of advanced forecasting models, several of which are used by U.S. EPA and U.S. DOE to forecast national vehicle and transportation consumption trends. Mr. Duleep has completed projects for the U.S. and state government, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Taiwan and other countries where his technology evaluations and forecasts have been the basis for automotive regulation. He has testified on transportation technology issues for the U.S. Congress during debates on the Clean Air Act and CAFE (fuel economy) standards. Mr. Duleep also advises a number of auto manufacturers on fuel economy and emissions issues. Mr. Duleep received a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a dual MS in Aerospace Engineering/Computer Information and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Mark Duvall
Senior Project Manager - Transportation, Electric Power Research Institute
Mark Duvall is the Manager of Technology Development for the Electric Transportation Program at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an independent, non-profit center for public interest energy and environmental collaborative research. He conducts research and manages technology development efforts on electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles. He oversees a number of partnerships and collaborations between EPRI and electric utilities, automotive companies, local, state, and federal agencies, national laboratories, and academic research institutions.
Mark’s work is currently focused on: (1) plug-in hybrid electric vehicle research, development, and demonstrations in collaboration with major automotive manufacturers like the EPRI—DaimlerChrysler PHEV Sprinter Van Program; (2) advanced battery system development and testing; (3) electric charging infrastructure; and (4) environmental analysis of the air quality and greenhouse gas emissions characteristics of plug-in hybrids and other electric transportation technologies.
Prior to joining EPRI, Mark held the position of Principal Development Engineer at the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center of the University of California, Davis. He has worked in the field of advanced transportation since 1990 and has led the development of several prototype advanced vehicles. He holds B.S and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.
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Ted Miller
Technical Specialist, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering
Ted Miller manages Ford Motor Company's advanced battery technology development for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). As Technical Leader of Advanced Battery Technology, Mr. Miller supports production vehicle development programs in North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as prototype vehicle development at Ford Research in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Miller is Chairman of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) Management Committee and past Chairman of the USABC Technical Advisory Committee. He holds several battery technology patents, is the author of numerous published papers, and a frequent speaker and technical conference session chair.
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Jaycie Chitwood
Senior Strategic Planner,
Advanced Technologies Department.
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Toyota’s Advanced Technologies, or “Environmental Vehicles," group works on the long-term market development for advanced-technology and alternative-fuel vehicles.
Jaycie’s role is quite broad and interdisciplinary. In addition to developing demonstration and research programs for advanced technology vehicles,
She is responsible for evaluating and communicating the environmental impact of various fuels and vehicle technologies, based on a life-cycle impact assessment; developing corporate partnerships that focus on environmental stewardship; and investigating non-vehicle-related CO2 mitigation strategies.
She also develops sustainability education and outreach programs within several U.S. National Parks, and coordinates waste management and renewable energy projects in the Galapagos Islands with the World Wildlife Fund.
She joined Toyota’s Long Range Planning group in 2000, after completing her MBA at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and was quickly chosen as part of the inaugural Advanced Product Strategy group. In this role, she used insights from her undergraduate degree in Psychology to help create a new research tool for bringing consumer needs and wants into the product development process.
Prior to joining Toyota, Jaycie worked for many years in various capacities within the oil & gas industry, from supply/demand and retail marketing analysis, to pipeline logistics, to domestic crude oil trading.
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Steven Taub
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing – Renewables, GE Energy Financial Services
Steven Taub is Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing for renewable energy at GE Energy Financial Services of Stamford, CT. In this role he analyzes the global renewable energy industry to guide GE's investment activities along three dimensions: renewable energy resources and technologies, regional markets and value chain position. He also works closely with GE Energy Financial Services' investment professionals to evaluate specific investment opportunities and to create and develop new ones.
Prior to joining GE, Steve was with Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), where he was engaged in research and strategic consulting on energy technology and electric power for a wide range of clients worldwide. His responsibilities at CERA included coverage of the technology, economics, policies, markets, and industry dynamics of all forms of renewable power, as well as distributed generation (such as fuel cells and cogeneration), gasification, nuclear energy, and other power generating technologies. At CERA, Steve worked on policy issues including�electric transmission, distribution, energy metering, wholesale market design, power market modeling, long-range scenario planning, and corporate strategy development.
Prior to CERA, Mr. Taub was with the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., where he served as a career employee in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management and the Office of New Production Reactors.
Steve earned master s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. He also completed a U.S. DOE engineering intern program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA.
Mr. Taub is a native of Hauppauge, NY and currently resides in Brookline, MA.
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J. Charles Smith
Executive Director, Utility Wind Integration Group
Mr. Smith is a Senior Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society, and a member of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems. He received his BSME and MS degrees from MIT in 1970. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Utility Wind Integration Group (UWIG), and is also the Managing Director of the consulting company Nexgen Energy. Previously, he served as President of Electrotek Concepts, a power engineering consulting firm. He has 37 years of experience in the electric power industry.
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Pete Duprey
CEO, Acciona North America
Peter joined Acciona Energy, in May 2006 to lead the growth of the business across the all of Acciona’s renewable technologies including wind, solar thermal, bio-mass and bio-fuel portfolios. Peter brings significant renewable energy experience from GE Energy where he was General Manager - Marketing for GE Energy’s wind business, where he was responsible for new product introductions and global strategy. Prior to joining the wind business, he led GE Energy’s business development efforts in renewable energy focused on wind, solar, biomass, and fuel cell acquisition opportunities. He led GE Energy’s acquisition of Enron wind along with other renewable energy companies. Peter also worked for six years in GE Capital, in diverse roles such as business development, finance and quality.
Peter came to GE through GE Capital’s acquisition of Eastman Kodak Credit Corporation in 1993 where he was the CFO of this $ 1.0 billion asset business. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Rochester, New York. He graduated Clarkson University with a B.S. Degree in Accounting & Finance and received an MBA from the William E. Simon School Of Business.
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Sandy Butterfield
Chief Engineer, National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sandy graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering in 1977 where he studied under Bill Heronemous, famous for his floating offshore wind farm proposals in the early 1970s. He worked at Rocky Flats Small turbine research center as a test engineer, design reviewer and analyst till 1980 when he co-founded ESI, a wind turbine manufacturing company. As Vice President of Engineering he was responsible for the all aspects of design and manufacturing. After selling ESI in 1985 he joined the Solar Energy Research Institute (which later was renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory - NREL) as a research engineer. His work at NREL has included aerodynamics research, testing, design reviews, contract management, manager of the applied research program, leader of the certification / standards program, Chief Engineer and leader of the codes group. Currently he is also working on offshore wind energy as well as systems integration. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers.
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Michael Jacobs
Deputy Policy Director
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
Mike Jacobs deals with transmission access for wind development as the Deputy Policy Director for the American Wind Energy Association. Previously, Mike worked as ISO Coordinator for TransEnergieUS, the developer of the Cross Sound Cable transmission line and several unbuilt transmission projects in ISO-New England, PJM, and New York.
He is a member of the Board of the Wind Coalition in Texas and Wind on the Wires in the Great Plains
In the past, he worked at Second Wind Inc., manufacturer of data systems for wind and utility applications, and on the staff of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Energy Facilities Siting Council when non-utility power plants and open access to gas transmission began to restructure the energy industry. During that time, he taught a course on energy options at Brown University.
He graduated from Wesleyan University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison with an M.S. in Urban Planning.
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Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang
MIT Department of Materials Science / Co-Founder, A123 Systems
Yet-Ming Chiang is Kyocera Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He received his S.B. degree in 1980 and Sc.D. in 1985, both from MIT, and has been a faculty member at MIT since 1985 with occasional leaves for outside experience including a research appointment at DuPont Central Research in 1992-93. His research focuses on advanced inorganic materials and their applications in energy storage and generation, mechanical actuation, and micro/nano electronic devices. Current projects include advanced rechargeable batteries of various size scales, interfacial thermodynamics and kinetics, self-organizing colloids and related devices, and solid-state electrochemistry-based mechanical actuators for morphing structures.
Chiang is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and recipient of its Ross Coffin Purdy, R.M. Fulrath and F.H. Norton Awards, and a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator award. Basic research from his laboratory recently enabled new battery technology that was honored in 2006 with an R&D 100 Award and the R&D 100 Editor’s Choice Award. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Journal of Electroceramics, Materials Science and Engineering Reports., and Current Opinion in Materials Science and Engineering. He is a founding scientist of two companies, American Superconductor Corporation (Westboro, Mass.) and A123 Systems, Inc. (Watertown, Mass).
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Hal Alper
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
Hal Alper is a postdoctoral research associate in the Whitehead Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on engineering biofuels production in both microbial and yeast systems. This postdoctoral work is done in conjunction with Gerry Fink and Gregory Stephanopoulos. He completed a BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. His PhD research involved the metabolic engineering of microbial systems for the production of small molecules. He currently holds an assistant professor position in the Chemical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin which starts in 2008.
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