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| Jim Bartis
Rand
James T. Bartis, senior policy analyst with the Rand Corporation. Expertise: emergency responder safety, energy, environment. Education: Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Background: Experienced in conducting technical assessments, systems analyses, and policy studies applied to energy, environment, and technology development issues. Prior employment includes Science Applications International Corporation (Vice President) and Eos Technologies (Vice President and cofounder). Served in the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of Energy Research, directed the policy and planning office of the Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, and directed the Divisions of Fossil Energy and Environment within department's Office of Policy and Evaluation.
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| Dr. Roger H Bezdek
Management Information Services, Inc.
Dr. Roger H. Bezdek, President, Management Information Services, Inc., has 30 years experience in research and management in the energy, utility, environmental, and regulatory areas, serving in private industry, academia, and the federal government, and is the founder and president of Management Information Services, Inc. – a Washington, D.C.-based economic and energy research firm. He has served as Corporate Director, Corporate President and CEO, University Professor, Research Director in ERDA/DOE, Special Advisor on Energy in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. energy delegate to the European Community and to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and as a participant in the State Department AMPART program.
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| William Clark
Johns Hopkins University
William R. Clark has received two Project Censored awards, first in 2003 for his ground-breaking research on the Iraq War, oil currency conflict, and U.S. geostrategy and again in 2005 for his research on Iran's upcoming euro-denominated oil bourse. He is an Information Security Analyst, and holds a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Information and Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University, where he is manager of performance improvement at the university’s School of Medicine. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.
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 | Cutler Cleveland
Cutler J. Cleveland currently is the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at BostonUniversity, where he also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment. Dr. Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Science, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, and Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier Science, 2005) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecological Economics. Dr. Cleveland is a member of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Energy Statistics, an advisory group to the Department of Energy, and a participant in the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum. He has been a consultant to numerous private and public organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Charles River Associates, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the MacArthur Foundation have supported his research. Dr. Cleveland’s research focuses on the ecological-economic analysis of how energy and materials are used to meet human needs.
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| Mr. John Cogliandro
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
John Cogliandro is a Program Manager with the Mission Innovation CBT of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.
For Raytheon he was appointed to the Mission Innovation Cross Business team in September 2004 after serving in various leadership roles for the development of the Next Generation Surface Combatant (DD(X) program.
Currently he contributes to the development of capabilities in intellectual property licensing, System of Systems (SoS) performance optimization, and mission assurance, as well as the chief engineer role on the Oil from Shale Technologies project.
Prior to Raytheon he served as the Program Manager for the F-18 POD and Airborne Laser guidance systems and was the Systems Engineering lead for the CVN-21 aircraft carrier program. Cogliandro is an internationally recognized speaker and author, having published over 20 articles on technology development, risk management, intellectual property strategy and strategic planning.
Cogliandro holds numerous certifications, degrees, awards and chair positions. He has earned a BS in Industrial Engineering, an MBA, certificates in Advanced Systems Planning, Research and Development and a certification in Systems Integration.
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 | Ms. Debbie Cook
City of Huntington Beach
Debbie Cook has served five years on the Huntington Beach, California City Council, serving as Mayor in 2002. She has served on many regional boards including SCAG Regional Council, SanDAG Borders Committee, Orange County Sanitation District, County of Orange Harbors, Beaches and Parks Commission, Pacific Cable Television Authority, State of California Desalination Task Force, and League of California Cities Administrative Policy Committee. She is currently serving as 1st VP for the Orange County Division of the League of California Cities. Debbie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Science from Cal State Long Beach, a Jurisdoctorate from Western State College of Law, and a license to practice law in California. She is also a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and Leadership Southern California.
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 | Mr. Julian Darley
Post Carbon Institute
Julian Darley is founder and director of Post Carbon Institute and Global Public Media. He is also author of High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis (2004) and c-author of the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil (forthcoming in 2007). Julian has an MSc in Environment and Social Research from University of Surrey in the UK, an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Music & Russian.
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 | Andy A Frank
The University of California—Davis
Professor Frank received a Phd in Electrical Engineering in1967, he has a Masters and bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, 1955 and 1957. He has worked in Aerospace industry for over ten years on such projects as the Minute Man Missile, and the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. After His Phd from USC, he became a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin. While there, his research turned toward advance transportation systems for much higher fuel efficiency. A power split hybrid electric vehicle was developed from the ground up in 1972. A goal of developing a car with 100 mpg and 0 to 60 mph in 6 seconds or less then was set.
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| Kelly Sims Gallagher
Harvard
Kelly Sims Gallagher is Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at HarvardUniversity’s Kennedy School of Government. She has a M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at TuftsUniversity. Her research interests include energy technology innovation, international energy cooperation, energy policy, climate change policy, international environmental policy, and technology transfer/economic development questions. She has an A.B. in international affairs and environmental studies from OccidentalCollege. She speaks Spanish and basic Mandarin Chinese. Her book, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development, will be published by MIT Press in 2006.
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 | Mr. Jeremy J Gilbert
Barrelmore Ltd
Jeremy Gilbert. Born and educated in Ireland. Moderatorship in Mathematics from DublinUniversity. Joined BP in 1964, worked as production engineer in Libya and then helped introduce the new technique of reservoir simulation into BP - working in Libya, US, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi - prior to eight years in Iran in reservoir engineering posts and as Planning Manager. From 1979, supervised BP’s North Sea reservoir engineering and later managed all BP’s UK petroleum and reservoir engineering activities. Worked in San Francisco as Vice President of BP Alaska Exploration before returning to UK in1987 as Technical Manager for the development of Wytch Farm field. Appointed BP’s Chief Petroleum Engineer, responsible for the company’s worldwide petroleum engineering performance and for an associated R. and D. program, in 1988; later became Resource Development Manger, overseeing technical recruitment and helping design and implement the ‘Challenge’ program for new staff. In subsequent posts worked on a range of staff development, equity and major legal issues in London, Houston and Anchorage. Retired from BP in 2001. Is now Managing Director of Barrelmore Ltd., a company providing technical audit and training support to the oil industry worldwide. Has been Chairman of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh)’s Industrial Advisory Board, a member of ImperialCollege (London)’s and of University of Alaska (Fairbanks)’s Industrial Advisory Boards, an external examiner for Masters’ courses at Robert Gordon’s University (Aberdeen) and Heriot-Watt Universities. Has also occupied several significant posts in the Society of Petroleum Engineers, including that of Chairman of the London Section. Lives in West Cork, Ireland - where he and his wife own a bookshop.
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| Jim Gordon
Cape Wind
In 1975, Jim started EMI and over the ensuing years would build EMI into one of the most successful privately held independent power companies in America. He recruited and managed a team of dedicated and highly motivated professionals that were able to complete the myriad and complex tasks of creating state of the art power projects. Jim’s sense of timing and grasp of political and regulatory directions allowed EMI to develop some of New England’s first gas fired cogeneration and independent power projects as well as the first generation of merchant electric plants in the United States. EMI is the developer of the proposed Cape Wind project, an offshore wind farm in Massachusetts.
Jim is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Public Communications and worked for Warner Communications Corporation prior to founding EMI.
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| Charlie Hall
SUNY-ESF
Charlie Hall is a systems ecologist – the application of integrative tools of science (especially empirical simulation modeling) to the understanding and management of complex natural and human-made systems. Throughout the diversity of projects Charlie has worked on, his principle focus is the examination of how organisms and societies invest energy in resource exploitation, and how such investments change as resource quality improves or diminishes.
Charlie has applied these analysis strategies to rivers, estuaries, tropical forests, fish migrations, pollution, tropical land use change, petroleum extraction, and the national economies of the United States, Argentina, and Costa Rica. Most recently his interests have been focused on integrative geophysical modeling of environments and economies, especially in the tropics. Charlie is working on a textbook incorporating principles of biophysical economics as an alternative to neoclassical economics.
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| Richard Heinberg
New College, Santa Rosa
Richard Heinberg is a journalist, educator, editor, writer, lecturer and musician. He has lectured widely, appearing on national radio and television in five countries. His essays have appeared in The Futurist, Intuition, The Sun, Brain/Mind Bulletin, Magical Blend, New Dawn, and on many energy-related forums.
Richard’s monthly MuseLetter was nominated in 1994 by Utne Reader for an Alternative Press Award and has been included in Utne’s annual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. He is the author of Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age, A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture, The Party’s Over: Energy Resources and the Fate of Industrial Societies, and Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.
Richard is a core faculty member of New College of California, where he teaches on Energy and Society, and Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community. He is a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is also an accomplished violinist and illustrator / book designer. Richard has presented around the U.S. and internationally on issues involving energy and society.
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 | John Heywood
MIT Sloan Auto
John B. Heywood, MIT Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab (1972 – present). Publications: author or co-author of 171 publications in journals and conference proceedings plus several books. Research interests: internal combustion engines; automotive technology; energy and transportation; air pollution; combustion. Teaching interests: thermal fluids; internal combustion engines; energy conversion; transportation. Education: B.A., 1960 CambridgeUniversity; S.M., 1962; Ph.D. 1964 MIT; Sc.D., 1983 CambridgeUniversity. Among 10 awards: U.S. DOT Award for the Advancement of Motor Vehicle Research and Development, 1996.
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| David Hughes
Geological Survey of Canada
J. David Hughes is a geologist with more than 30 years experience studying the energy resources of Canada for the Geological Survey of Canada and the private sector. He is the Leader of the National Coal Inventory, which is a digital knowledge base on coal used to determine the availability of resources for conventional and non-conventional uses, including coalbed methane production and the sequestration of CO2. He is also Team Leader for Non-conventional Gas for the Canadian Gas Potential Committee. For the past several years, he has developed a keen interest in the "Big Picture", as it relates to the longer term prognosis for continuity of energy supplies and some of the political and environmental ramifications concerning their use.
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| James Hunt
City of Boston
James W. Hunt, III serves on Mayor Thomas Menino’s Cabinet as Chief for Environmental and Energy Services for the City of Boston. In this capacity, Jim Hunt is the Mayor’s lead advisor on Environmental and Energy policy and oversees several City agencies including the Inspectional Services Department, the Environment Department, Parks Planning, and Boston’s Recycling Program. Jim also serves as a Mayoral Appointee to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and as a Trustee on the Boston Groundwater Trust.
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 | Dr. Robert Kaufmann Ph.D.
Boston U CEES
Robert Kaufmann, Professor for Boston University, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Department of Geography. With three colleagues, Robert co-authored “Beyond Oil: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming Decades,” the 1985 ground-breaking book that was explored long-term oil and energy supply constraints plus attendant consequences. Education: PhD 1988, in energy management and policy, from the University of Pennsylvania. Research interests: “My research focuses on three areas; world oil markets, development and analysis of policies to slow the emission of gases that contribute to global climate change, and ecological economics. In each area, my research makes progress by integrating theory and techniques developed in the social and natural sciences.
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| Michael Klare
Amherst U
Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84).
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 | Charles Komanoff
Charles Komanoff
Charles Komanoff gained renown in the 1970s and ’80s for deconstructing nuclear power cost escalation as author, researcher and expert witness. He is active in the pedestrian, cyclist and energy-efficiency communities in New York City and is co-developer of the innovative Greening A Block project on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. His books and monographs include Power Plant Cost Escalation, Killed By Automobile, The Bicycle Blueprint and Ending The Oil Age. Charles has a B.A. from Harvard in Applied Mathematics and Economics. He lives in lower Manhattan with his wife and their two sons.
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| Mr. Dick Lawrence
ASPO-USA
Dick Lawrence graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Physics. For most of his professional career, he worked for Digital Equipment designing graphics workstations, and later for Intel developing processors for cellphones and PDAs.
In 1986 he read the seminal work Beyond Oil by Gever, Kaufmann et al, which was his introduction to the Hubbert curve, the reality of depletion, and a wake-up call to a nation already addicted to oil. By 2001 the Internet and energy-related web sites made it possible to network with others around the world having similar concerns about our global industrialized civilization and its appetite for fossil fuels. He attended annual ASPO meetings in Uppsala, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon and this year in Pisa, Italy. In 2005 Dick co-founded ASPO-USA with 4 others from Colorado, Texas, and California, and their first national conference took place in November that year. He has developed a proposal for dynamic-systems modeling of world energy flow, for modeling future energy scenarios, which he will present in Boston.
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| Lee R Lynd
Dartmouth
Lee Rybeck Lynd is a Professor of Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Dartmouth College, Professor Extraordinary of Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and Chief Scientific Officer of Mascoma Corporation. He has been a member of the Dartmouth Faculty since 1987. Dr. Lynd holds a B.S. degree in biology from Bates College, an M.S. degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, and masters and doctoral degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College.
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| Milton Maciel
former Secretary of Agriculture
Milton Maciel, an organic farmer, consultant and author of more than 10 books, is a former Secretary of Agriculture in AlagoasState, Northeast Brazil. He specializes in soil regeneration, organic sugar cane and alcohol production and is a designer for Brazilian Zero Oil Farms project.
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| Mr. Mark Pisano
Southern California Association of Governments
Mark Pisano has served as Executive Director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) since November 1976. SCAG is the nation’s largest regional planning agency with a membership that consists of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties. SCAG provides an open forum where region-wide problems can be explored and comprehensive plans dealing with air and water quality, transportation, regional growth and development, housing, and other areas critical to the region can be developed.
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| Bill Reinert
Toyota Motor Sales, USA
Bill Reinert is National Manager of Advanced Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His primary function is to coordinate Toyota’s various research, development and marketing activities related to alternative-fueled vehicles and emerging technologies. He is currently working on several advanced hybrid electric products, direct hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, reformed fuel approaches for hydrogen, full-featured electric vehicles, city electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid concepts, ethanol fuels and sustainable transportation systems.
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| Mike Rodgers
PFC Energy
Michael Rodgers is a PFC Energy Partner and a senior member of the firm's Upstream practice. During his 25-year career, Michael developed expertise in geotechnical and economic risk assessment in numerous basins of South America, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian sub-Continent, and Southeast Asia. At PFC Energy his focus is commercial risk assessment, expected value analysis, project economics and portfolio analysis. In addition, he directs the Global Deepwater Competition Service.
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| Dan Schrag
Harvard University
Daniel Schrag is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University and the Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. In addition to his work on Earth history, he is currently working on technological approaches to mitigating the effects of human-induced climate change. Among various honors, Schrag was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Schrag came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton, and studying at Berkeley and Yale.
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 | Matt Simmons
Simmons International
Matthew Simmons is Chairman of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. The firm has completed approximately 600 investment banking projects for its worldwide energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $65 billion.
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| Arthur Smith
John S Herold, Inc
Arthur L. Smith is Chairman of John S. Herold Inc. the Norwalk- and Houston-based petroleum research and consulting firm. A native of New Orleans, Mr. Smith attended DukeUniversity for his BA. He pursued graduate work at NYU Stern where he received an MBA in Economics (1979). Mr. Smith holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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| Stuart Staniford
TheOilDrum
Stuart Staniford is a consultant (Invicta Consulting) who earned a PhD in Physics (UC Davis) with an MS in Computer Science (UC Davis). He spent most of the last decade doing research, design, and architecture in computer security, especially around the spread of computer worms and techniques for containing them. He ran his own computer firm, with a focus on security, for five years.
As a consultant, he worked on projects ranging from novel algorithm design, system architecture, third party evaluations and code audits, GUI design, and served as an expert witness during litigation. During the last several years, he became extremely interested in problems of energy supply - and is interested in extending his consulting practice in this direction as suitable projects arise. At present he’s the lead editor of The Oil Drum, perhaps the most-respected website researching peak oil.
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| Steven Strong
Solar Design
Steven Strong is regarded as a pre-eminent authority on integration of renewable energy systems in buildings in North America. Drawing on his background in Architecture and Engineering, he has earned a reputation for pioneering integration of renewable energy systems - especially solar electricity - with environmentally responsive building design.
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| Mr. Tom Whipple
ASPO-USA
Tom Whipple publishes a daily newsletter on energy under the ASPO-USA banner that is read and quoted widely throughout the energy-aware world. He also writes a weekly “Peak Oil” column for the (Virginia) Falls Church News-Press which is routinely circulated through web portals and links onto some of the world’s most popular sites discussing the subject. Whipple, a North Arlington (VA) resident, is a former career CIA analyst whose thoroughly-documented and prescient insights into the “peak oil” phenomenon published in the News-Press every week are in the forefront of this global dialogue.
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