OURENERGYPOLICY - Key Persons
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Board
- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, American Petroleum Institute
Amanda Eversole serves as executive vice president & chief operating officer, leading efforts to integrate API's diverse functions and develop and implement a strategic plan for the natural gas and oil industry. Eversole previously served as Managing Director and Head of Public Affairs at JPMorgan Chase & Co., overseeing strategic communications, civic engagement and strategy for the corporate responsibility team. Eversole created and built JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s public affairs function, leveraging a campaign style process focused on aligning inclusive economic growth and deeper local engagement around the world. Eversole also created a framework for the firm's philanthropic approach, which was highlighted last year as part of Fortune's "#1 Company Changing the World" recognition. Prior to her time at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Eversole spent 13 years at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. She served as President of C_TEC, the Chamber Technology Engagement Center, where she developed and expanded ties between technology companies and policymakers and served as Senior Vice President of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, a program she helped launch in 2006 to advance America's global leadership in capital formation. Eversole also served as Chief of Staff to Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue and oversaw marketing and communications for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Prior to joining the U.S. Chamber, she worked for RTC Relationship Marketing - a WPP Group company - in business development. Eversole graduated cum laude from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a minor in French. She earned an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School where she was a Palmer Scholar and graduated first in her class. She lives in Virginia with her husband, their two daughters and their dog, Gus.
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- Founding Director, Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Andrew Revkin, one of America's most honored and experienced journalists focused on environmental and human sustainability, is the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. Before moving to Columbia this year, he spent a year as a strategic adviser at the National Geographic Society, where he helped expand funding, training and support systems for worldwide environmental journalism. From 2016 through early 2018, he was the senior reporter for climate change at the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica. That move, in 2018, followed three decades of ground-breaking journalism, including 14 years at The New York Times as a reporter and 6 after his Dot Earth blog moved to the Opinion section in 2010. From 2010 to 2016, he was also senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University, where he developed courses in online communication and filmmaking focused on sustainability. He has written acclaimed books on humanity's weather and climate learning journey, global warming, the changing Arctic and the assault on the Amazon rain forest.
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- Executive
- Member of the Board
- President
Bill Squadron has been an executive, government official and attorney in the energy, telecommunications, sports and media fields for more than 25 years, and is currently President of OurEnergyPolicy. Previously, Mr. Squadron was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Sportvision, Inc., which remains the premier provider of technologies that enrich sports telecasts, including the company's Emmy-winning invention of the 1st and Ten® yellow first down line. In 2001, Ernst & Young named Mr. Squadron New York City Entrepreneur of the Year in the media category. From 1990-93, as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Telecommunications and Energy, Mr. Squadron administered New York's cable franchises, oversaw the City's communications and energy policies, and launched and managed the City's five-channel cable network. Prior to that, Mr. Squadron was a partner at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in Washington, D.C.
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Urban Ingenuity
Bracken Hendricks is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Urban Ingenuity, a company offering solutions to finance and develop advanced energy infrastructure projects that speed the clean energy future. He is a longtime leader in promoting policies that create green jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and investment in cities. Hendricks was most recently a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, working on policy solutions at the interface of clean energy and economic development. He served as an adviser to the campaign and transition team of President Barack Obama, and was an architect of clean-energy portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He also served in the Clinton administration as special assistant to the Office of Vice President Al Gore, with the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with the President's Council on Sustainable Development. He was founding executive director of the Apollo Alliance for good jobs and energy independence and has served as an energy and economic advisor to the AFL-CIO, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's Energy Advisory Task Force, and numerous other federal, state, and local policy-makers and elected officials. Hendricks' publications include the book Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, which he co-authored with U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA).
Daisy graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) with a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in Communication (specialization: public relations). Prior to joining OEP, Daisy was a Pathways Intern for the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission's Office of Communications and a research intern for the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition. In her free time, she enjoys watching professional football (#GoPackGo) and baseball (#NATITUDE), attending UMD sporting events, exploring nature and spending quality time with her loved ones.
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- Managing Director / the Roda Group
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- Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California
- Distinguished Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He works on energy and environmental science, policy and analysis, and has extensive field experience in Latin American, southeast Asia and China, and in Africa, which has been a focal point of his work for two decades. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).
DAVID A. HAMMER is the J. Carleton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His current research interests are in the dynamics and radiative properties of high energy density plasmas produced by pulsed power machines. He presently serves as the Director of Cornell's Center for Pulsed-Power-Driven High-Energy-Density Plasma Studies. Professor Hammer received the B.S. degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Cornell University in 1969. He then spent seven years at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where he carried out theoretical research on streaming instabilities in plasmas and initiated experimental research on intense relativistic electron beam interaction with gases and plasmas. He was also a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Maryland from 1973-1976, where he studied non-neutral plasmas. Immediately before returning to Cornell as a faculty member in 1977, Dr. Hammer was an Associate Professor of Electrical Sciences and Engineering at UCLA. He spent the summer of 1977, the academic year 1983-84, the Spring semester 1991 and the Spring semester of 2005 in the Physics Department at Imperial College, London, as a Senior Visiting Fellow studying z-pinch plasmas, the Spring of 1998 at Applied Materials, Inc., working with a plasma-processing group, and January - July, 2011 studying plasma jets for application to laboratory plasma astrophysics with colleagues at the Paris Observatory and at the CEA laboratory in Gramat, France. Professor Hammer's teaching in recent years has concentrated on plasma physics, controlled fusion and a seminar course on energy issues. Hammer was elected to serve as Vice Chair and then Chair of DPP in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He represented DPP on the APS Council from 2006 until 2010 and has been a member of the APS Executive Board, the Budget Committee, the Committee on Committees and the Committee on Meetings. Currently, he serves on the APS nominating committee. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Hammer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of IEEE and of the AAAS. In 2004, he was the winner of the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award. He served as the Chair-Elect of the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2003, and as the Chair of the division in 2004. Dr. Hammer was elected Division Councillor of the DPP in 2006 and is serving a 4-year term on the APS Council as a result (2007-2010). He is serving as a member of the APS Executive Board during 2009 and 2010.
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- Director, Stakeholder Relations / External Affairs, Brookhaven National Laboratory
After 2 years running the New York Smart Grid Consortium as Executive Director, and leading the energy practice of VHB Engineering, Mr. Manning was appointed on the 1st of February, 2013 as the Province of Alberta, Canada's Representative to the United States. Alberta accounts for over half of the world's oil reserves available to investor owned producers [79% are controlled by governments, 21% available for development.] Alberta represents 28% of US oil imports and supplies 12% of US natural gas consumption. It also has over 100 megawatts of installed wind and is starting major solar projects. Previously Mr. Manning spent 10 years in the uitility sector as Executive Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer of Keyspan/National Grid, one of the largest power and gas utilities in the United States. Mr. Manning had responsibility for all external affairs, including government relations on the local, state, and national level, public relations and communications, as well as community strategy. Mr. Manning also managed both environmental policy and environmental operations for KeySpan. KeySpan operated throughout the U.S. Northeast, and was acquired by National Grid, the London based utility. Prior to his role with KeySpan / National Grid, Mr. Manning was the President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the industry trade group representing the entire Canadian upstream, including Canada's Oil Sands. In that capacity, he was a delegate to Kyoto and introduced the first industry-lead voluntary CO2 reduction program in 1995. In addition to Mr. Manning's corporate and trade association leadership, he served as the Deputy Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta in the early 90's, following five years as Alberta's International Trade Counsel and representative in the United States. In that capacity, he was actively involved in the creation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the North America Free Trade Agreement on behalf of the Province. He also participated in the successful efforts to develop infrastructure and significantly expand Canadian energy exports to U.S. markets.
David Nagel has over 35 years' experience in the global energy industry business, working with Amoco and then BP. During his career, he held executive positions in line management (Egypt, Algeria) and corporate finance (M&A, Controller), and led BP's Washington DC office between 2009 and 2013. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, and an MBA in International Finance, both from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His current activities now include advising non-profit organizations at the board and executive level, and engaging in public discussion of energy issues through, for example, guest lectures and event panels.
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- Lead Communications Consultant
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- President of Kadak Associates, Inc
Andrew C. Kadak is a President of Kadak Associates, Inc., a consulting firm in the nuclear field specializing in operations, advanced reactors, and executive management. He was formerly a Professor of the Practice in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include advanced reactors, nuclear safety, waste management and nuclear space applications. He presently serves on the US Nuclear Waste Technology Review board overseeing the Department of Energy's nuclear waste program. Prior to joining MIT in 1998, he was president and CEO of Yankee Atomic Electricity Company, a nuclear utility and service company to New England's nuclear plants. He was President of the American Nuclear Society from 1999 to 2000. He has a Ph.D. and Master's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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- Professor
- University Distinguished Professor / Michigan State University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering / Full Profile
- University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Professor Dale is Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. He also serves as Editor in Chief of the Wiley journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. In 1996 he won the Charles D. Scott Award for contributions to the use of biotechnology to produce fuels, chemical and other industrial products from renewable plant resources. In 2007 he won the Sterling Hendricks award for contributions to the chemical science of agriculture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2011 and also in 2011 he won the Award of Excellence of the Fuel Ethanol Workshop. In 2013 he was named University Distinguished Professor, a designation held by approximately 1% of university faculty. Professor Dale is interested in the environmentally sustainable conversion of plant matter to industrial products -- fuels, chemicals and materials -- while still meeting human and animal needs for food and feed. He occupies a leadership role in the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC). The GLBRC will receive $275million in Federal funding over 10 years to develop cellulosic biofuels.
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- Member of the Board
- Co - Founding Partner, IberSun North America
- Expert
Dr. Michael K. Dorsey is a recognized expert on global energy, environment, finance and sustainability matters. In 1997, in Glasgow, Scotland, Dorsey was bestowed Rotary International's highest honor, The Paul Harris Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity. In 2013 the National Journal named Dr. Dorsey one of 200 national "energy and environment expert insiders". That same year he was made a "Full member" of the Club of Rome. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Yale and the Johns Hopkins University, presently Dr. Dorsey is Senior Program Officer for Sustainability at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Dorsey is also the Senior Innovation Fellow and the Director of Energy and Sustainability Programs at Duke University's Innovation and Technology Policy Lab (the ITPLab). Dr. Dorsey is a serial organization builder and active advisor to for-profit, non-profit and governmental concerns. In the for-profit arena, Dr. Dorsey advises several pools of private equity finance on renewable energy, infrastructure and illiquid asset matters globally. In 2016 Dorsey helped finance one of the largest non-utility owned and backed solar installations in Michigan. In non-profit realms, in 1997 Dorsey, in cooperation with the founding and current executive Director, helped to co-create the northern California headquartered Center for Environmental Health. In 2005 Dorsey and a partner co-launched IslandsFirst.org at the gentle urging of the late Ambassador Stuart Beck-Palau's first permanent representative to the United Nations. Dr. Dorsey sits on a number of non-profit boards, most notably on the national board of the Sierra Club-one of the largest and oldest US environmental organizations.rnrnDr. Dorsey's significant government engagement began in 1992 as a member of the U.S. State Department Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit." From 1994-96 Dorsey was a task force member of President William Jefferson Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development. From April 2007 until November 2008 Dorsey was a member of Senator Barack Obama's energy and environment Presidential campaign team. In 2010 Lisa Jackson, the US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) Administrator, appointed Dr. Dorsey to the EPA's National Advisory Committee (NAC). Jackson reappointed Dr. Dorsey to the US-EPA NAC in 2012 and Administrator McCarthy reappointed him again in 2014. Further in 2014, after more than two decades of collaboration and engagement with the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS)-a specialized unit of UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), Dr. Dorsey was designated UN-NGLS' advisor on "climate, energy sustainability and SIDS (Small Island Developing States)".
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- Partner, KL Gates
- Strategic Advisor
Elias Hinckley is a strategic advisor on energy finance and energy policy to investors, energy companies and governments. He is an energy and tax partner with the law firm KL Gates where he helps his clients solve the challenges of a changing energy landscape by using his understanding of energy policy, regulation, and markets to quickly and creatively assemble successful energy deals. His prior experience also includes leading the clean energy practice at two large law firms and building the national alternative energy tax practice for one of the world's largest professional services firms. Elias also acts as a strategic advisor on energy policy and markets, and as an adjunct professor of International Energy Policy at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Follow him on Twitter @EliasHinckley
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- Board Member, Con Edison Transmission
Frances Resheske serves on the board of Con Edison Transmission. She served on the Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses board until the company was sold in March 2023. She is a Gubernatorial appointee to the board of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). For decades, she has been deeply committed to her non-profit work and currently is a board member of the Alfred E. Smith Foundation, vice chair of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), and board secretary at the New York State League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. For 23 years, Frances served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs at Con Edison, one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy delivery companies. She led the enterprise-wide group including regulatory, government and community relations, and energy market policies. She oversaw communications, media relations, marketing and strategic philanthropy.
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- Professor of Chemistry Director, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Nathan Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He is the Principal Investigator of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, the Energy Innovation Hub in Fuels from Sunlight, and has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the Fresenius Award in 1990, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1991, the Orton Memorial Lecture award in 2003, the Princeton Environmental Award in 2003 and the Michael Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Electrochemistry in 2008. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy & Environmental Science. He has published over 300 papers and has supervised over 60 graduate students and postdoctoral associates. His research interests include artificial photosynthesis and electronic noses. Technical details of these research topics focus on light-induced electron transfer reactions, both at surfaces and in transition metal complexes, surface chemistry and photochemistry of semiconductor/liquid interfaces, novel uses of conducting organic polymers and polymer/conductor composites, and development of sensor arrays that use pattern recognition algorithms to identify odorants, mimicking the mammalian olfaction process.
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- President, Micro - Utilities, Inc
- Professional Engineer
Herschel is a professional engineer with over 50 years of experience in the electric power industry. After graduating from MIT and serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, he started his career in physics, thermal hydraulics, and heat transfer. In 1965, he joined the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) where he established national containment acceptance criteria. Later, as the AEC licensing manager for the Indian Point 3 (IP3) Plant, he completed its safety review, wrote the safety evaluation report, and presented his results before the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). This led to the licensing of this plant. He was then selected by AEC Commissioner Doub to serve at diplomat rank at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria (1974-1979). He returned in 1979 to the Department of Energy where he worked on the safety of our Defense Nuclear Systems. In 1981 the New York Power Authority (NYPA) offered him the position of Manager of an adjudicatory hearing defending IP3. Later, as Technical Advisor to NYPA's Executive Vice President, he was asked by the Department of Energy to chair a national committee on emergency planning. The final report was forwarded to Congress. He also chaired NUMARC's Task Force on Emergency Planning. The NUMARC report (NUMARC/NESP-005) was distributed to all U.S. nuclear utilities. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard for over five years on emergency planning. In 1992 he initiated a national effort on "Risk-Based Regulation" (RBR) and presented this concept to all five NRC Commissioners at a public hearing. Risk based regulation has become the centerpiece for modernizing the nuclear regulatory process at the NRC and within the nuclear industry. He has written fundamental papers on this subject, assisted EPRI in initiating its program on risk-based regulation, appeared before national regulatory and industry groups, been a guest lecturer and invited international speaker, chaired industry committees on this subject and have been an active member on others. In 1993 he wrote the ANS Policy Statement on RBR. In addition to my RBR activities, he has published extensively on other nuclear safety issues, on the environment, and on energy policy matters. He has served on an editorial board of an international energy journal.
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- Nuclear Energy Engineering, Cornell University
DAVID A. HAMMER is the J. Carleton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His current research interests are in the dynamics and radiative properties of high energy density plasmas produced by pulsed power machines. He presently serves as the Director of Cornell's Center for Pulsed-Power-Driven High-Energy-Density Plasma Studies. Professor Hammer received the B.S. degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Cornell University in 1969. He then spent seven years at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where he carried out theoretical research on streaming instabilities in plasmas and initiated experimental research on intense relativistic electron beam interaction with gases and plasmas. He was also a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Maryland from 1973-1976, where he studied non-neutral plasmas. Immediately before returning to Cornell as a faculty member in 1977, Dr. Hammer was an Associate Professor of Electrical Sciences and Engineering at UCLA. He spent the summer of 1977, the academic year 1983-84, the Spring semester 1991 and the Spring semester of 2005 in the Physics Department at Imperial College, London, as a Senior Visiting Fellow studying z-pinch plasmas, the Spring of 1998 at Applied Materials, Inc., working with a plasma-processing group, and January - July, 2011 studying plasma jets for application to laboratory plasma astrophysics with colleagues at the Paris Observatory and at the CEA laboratory in Gramat, France. Professor Hammer's teaching in recent years has concentrated on plasma physics, controlled fusion and a seminar course on energy issues. Hammer was elected to serve as Vice Chair and then Chair of DPP in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He represented DPP on the APS Council from 2006 until 2010 and has been a member of the APS Executive Board, the Budget Committee, the Committee on Committees and the Committee on Meetings. Currently, he serves on the APS nominating committee. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Hammer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of IEEE and of the AAAS. In 2004, he was the winner of the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award. He served as the Chair-Elect of the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2003, and as the Chair of the division in 2004. Dr. Hammer was elected Division Councillor of the DPP in 2006 and is serving a 4-year term on the APS Council as a result (2007-2010). He is serving as a member of the APS Executive Board during 2009 and 2010.
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- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, USGRDCO
Jay has devoted his career to solving major problems in energy and infrastructure. He is CEO of US Grid Company (USGRDCO) and Chairman of Ravenswood Power Holdings, which owns the largest power plant in New York. As CEO of USGRDCO, Jay played a key role in 2016-17 in saving the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Plant in New York from shutdown. He did so by working with the Governor's Office, Entergy and Exelon, negotiating for USGRDCO to buy the plant from Entergy and lease it to Exelon, and facilitating the sale of the plant by Entergy to Exelon. Jay founded and served from 2003 to 2008 as Chairman and CEO of US Power Generating Company, which owned 5,200 MWs of generating capacity in New York City and Boston, representing 20% of NYC's capacity and 50% of Boston's. He is chairman of the Interfaith Alliance, dedicated to safeguarding constitutional rights. He has served as a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York. Jay has taught classes on ethics and business at Princeton, Yale and NYU. He is a graduate of Columbia and has JD and MBA degrees from NYU.
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- Chief Executive Officer / National Coal Council
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- Member of the Board
- Partner, Bracewell
Jeff Holmstead, former assistant administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency for Air and Radiation, is one of the nation's leading climate change lawyers as recognized by Chambers USA (2008-2018) and heads the environmental strategies group (ESG) at Bracewell. From his time in both the government and the private sector, Jeff is very familiar with the environmental and energy challenges facing the business community. He advises clients dealing with an increasingly complex regulatory, legal and public relations landscape, drawing on his experience in policy development, administrative and legislative advocacy, litigation and strategic communications. He has worked with clients in a number of industries on issues related to climate change, Clean Air Act policy and enforcement, and energy policy - including the development of new coal-fired power plants, refineries, renewable energy sources, and electric transmission infrastructure. Jeff headed the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation from 2001 to 2005, longer than anyone in EPA history. During his tenure, he was the architect of several of the agency's most important initiatives, including the Clean Air Interstate Rule, the Clean Air Diesel Rule, the Mercury Rule for power plants and the reform of the New Source Review program. He also oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation and key parts of its Global Climate Change Initiative. Between 1989 and 1993, Jeff served on the White House Staff as Associate Counsel to former President George H.W. Bush. In that capacity, he was involved in the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the key steps taken to implement those amendments.
Jenna graduated from Elon University with a BA in Strategic Communications and a double minor in Sport Management and American Studies. Prior to joining OEP, Jenna worked as an intern at Schertler, Onorato, Mead, & Sears. On the weekends and in her free time, Jenna enjoys watching sports and spending time with her family, friends, and dog.
Prior to joining OEP, Jordan was the Trade Policy Coordinator at the U.S. Grains Council. He also has experience working in the U.K. as a Sustainable Transport Researcher at Essex County Council as well as internships in the Tennessee General Assembly. Jordan is a big sports fan supporting teams such as Chelsea Football Club, the Tennessee Titans and of course the Vols.
Prior to joining Our Energy Policy, Julia worked for Advanced Energy United as a graduate consultant and worked at Banner Public Affairs as a Public Affairs Intern. She studied Sustainability at the University of Florida (Go Gators!) and continued her education with an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia University. After work, Julia enjoys festivals, cooking, karaoke, and playing with her roommate's cats.
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- Member of the Board
- Managing Director & Co - Founder, the Clean Fight NY
- Managing Director of the Clean Fight
Kate Frucher is the Managing Director of The Clean Fight NY, a business accelerator supported by NYSERDA and New Energy Nexus that identifies the best growth-stage clean energy companies from around the world and helps them scale in New York. Before The Clean Fight, Kate spent two decades as an entrepreneur and operator herself, helping to launch, operate, and scale multiple technology and services businesses from startup to $100 million+. Kate is adept at driving into new industries and driving innovation and rapid growth, with a track record of managing P&Ls in operational and strategic roles. She is also skilled at developing business and product strategies, high performing teams and cultures, and new organizational capabilities.
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- Senior Vice President, Communications
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- Principal / Perelman Group
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- Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems
- Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marilyn A. Brown is a Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she created and directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab. Her research focuses on the design and modeling of energy and climate policies, with an emphasis on the electric utility industry, energy efficiency, and resources on the customer side of the meter. Since 2010, she has been a Presidential appointee to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority where her efforts have helped put the agency on a track to reduce its CO2 emissions in 2020 by 40% below 2005. She has authored more than 250 publications and six books. Among her honors and awards, she is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for co-authorship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on Mitigation of Climate Change. She has served on eight committees of the National Academies and is in her second term on the U.S. Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee.
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- Member of the Board
- Principal of the Energy Futures Initiative
- Principal, Energy Futures Initiative
Melanie Kenderdine is a principal of the Energy Futures Initiative and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Kenderdine served at the Department of Energy from May 2013 - January 2017, as the Energy Counselor to the Secretary and concurrently as the Director of DOE's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis. Prior to serving in her role at DOE, Ms. Kenderdine worked as the Executive Director and Associate Director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). Before joining MITEI, she served as the Vice President of Washington Operations for the Gas Technology Institute and from 1993 to 2001, Kenderdine served in several key posts at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as an appointee of President Bill Clinton. Her last position at DOE was Director of the Office of Policy. Concurrently, Kenderdine served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of DOE for oil, gas, coal and nuclear issues. She was the primary architect of the exchange of Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil in 2000, managed DOE's response to the Japan nuclear accident, helped manage the federal response to the California electricity crisis, and oversaw the establishment of the Home Heating Oil Reserve in the northeastern US. Ms. Kenderdine has served on a Council on Foreign Relations Task Force to develop a national energy strategy, on the Consumers Energy Council of America Working Group on Distributed Energy, has published articles in the World Energy Forum magazine, co-authored a chapter in "Energy Security in the 21st Century: A New Foreign Policy Strategy," and is a frequent lecturer on energy issues. In July 2014, Ms. Kenderdine was named one of the top five women in Washington shaping energy policy by the National Journal.
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- Member of the Board
- Chief US Economist and Head of Oil and Refining, BP
Michael Cohen is Chief US Economist and Head of Oil and Refining in bp's Economic and Energy Insights team. In this role, he is responsible for short, medium, and long term oil market and US policy analysis that informs bp's Leadership Team and the Energy Outlook. Prior to joining bp in May 2019, Mr. Cohen was Barclays' Global Head of Commodities Research and was responsible for preparing and delivering differentiated research on commodities markets to Barclays' global corporate and institutional investor client base. He worked for a decade in the public sector as an Economist with the US Energy Information Administration, the Department of Energy's Office of Policy and International Affairs, and as a senior member of the Oil Markets Division at the IEA. Prior to government service, Mr. Cohen worked on electricity market design for LECG (now Navigant) and as a trading desk analyst for American Electric Power. Mr. Cohen serves as a non-resident fellow at the Colorado School of Mines and frequently lectures on energy, oil markets, and geopolitics at several universities. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with dual undergraduate degrees in Business and Political Science from The Ohio State University and a Masters in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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- Professor of Physics at the City College
- Professor of Physics, City College of the City University of New York
Michael Lubell is a Professor of Physics at the City College of the City University of New York and former Director of Public Affairs of the American Physical Society. He received his B.A from Columbia University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale, where he was a faculty member for ten years before assuming his position at CCNY. He has held fellowships from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and visiting appointments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Bielefeld and the Santa Barbara Institute of Theoretical Physics. He served as CCNY Physics Department Chairman for six and half years. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Lubell's publications comprise more than 300 articles, abstracts and columns in scientific journals, books, conference proceedings and newspapers in the fields of high-energy physics; nuclear physics; atomic, molecular and optical physics; and science policy. He appears on radio and TV in North America, Europe and Asia and is one of the experts most frequently quoted by the U.S. media on science policy issues. He has been a newspaper columnist and presently writes a bimonthly opinion piece, "Inside the Beltway," for APS News. He has worked on many political campaigns, has held elective office and has been a policy advisor to several members of the United States Congress. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of science lobbying in Washington.
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- George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry
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- Program Director for Energy, Power and Adaptive Systems / National Science Foundation, Retired
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- Member of the Board
- President of the Alliance
- President, Alliance to Save Energy
Paula R. Glover has served as President of the Alliance to Save Energy since January 2021 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2017. During her tenure, the Alliance has secured billions of dollars in federal funding for energy efficiency programs, amplified its work on energy justice, and worked to advance the next generation of technologies with the Active Efficiency Collaborative. A dynamic leader with more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry, Paula previously served as President and CEO of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, a non-profit professional association whose focus is to ensure that African Americans and other minorities have input into the discussions and development of energy policy, regulations, and environmental issues. Ms. Glover's other experiences include 15 years in the energy industry for both electric and natural gas distribution companies. During that time, she built a stellar reputation working with state legislators and regulators and commands a clear understanding of the consumer and community sides of the business.
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center ( AERTC )
Robert B. Catell is Chairman of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) at Stony Brook University, New York State Smart Grid Consortium, Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School, Futures in Education Endowment Fund, JJT Energy, KEYERA Energy Management Ltd., and the New York Energy Policy Institute's Advisory Council (NYEPI). Mr. Catell was formerly the Chairman of National Grid, U.S. and Deputy Chairman of National Grid plc. Mr. Catell is also a former Chairman of the American Gas Association, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Partnership for New York City, Inc., U.S. Energy Association (USEA), Business Council of NYS, the Advisory Board of the City College of New York's School of Engineering, and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Mr. Catell also serves on the board for organizations including the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) the NYS Economic Development Power Allocation Board (EDPAB), the National Petroleum Council, Advanced Power North America (APNA), and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Mr. Catell received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the City College of New York and is a registered Professional Engineer.
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- Director of International Public Policy and Advocacy, Global Innovation Policy Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Robert Grant presently oversees energy as well as international government relations for Mitsubishi Corporation, from its Washington office. For the past decade, Robert has served as a policy-maker, political adviser and diplomat for both the British and American Governments, and as a consultant to think tanks and corporations. Most recently he advised the US State Department's Energy and Resources Bureau on strategy, outreach and communications. Immediately prior to that, he served as the UK Government's chief representative on energy issues, at the British Embassy in Washington. During his time at the Embassy, Robert represented national and commercial interests to the US administration and Congress on international and domestic energy and environment policy. Before coming to Washington, Robert held various policy positions at the UK Environment Ministry, including as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Minister of State. Having worked at the center of US, European and global energy policy, Robert brings a sophisticated understanding of the intersection of international energy markets, environmental regulations and geo-politics. Robert received his undergraduate degree from the University of York, and a Master's degree in Political Theory and Government from London School of Economics and Political Science.
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- Systems Architect / Silverthorn Institute
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- Member of the Board
- Partner, ArentFox Schiff
Sarah represents US and global clients, including Japanese companies doing business in the United States and around the world. Her clients include power developers, investors, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity across a broad range of industries, such as power generation, publishing, biotech and medical devices, and automotive. Enjoying both business and the practice of law, she often acts as outside general counsel for clients without legal departments, in addition to advising on transactions. A recognized leader in her field, Sarah has received numerous industry accolades from her peers and clients. In the words of clients according to the 2020 Chambers USA guide, "She is a brilliant attorney who's insightful, responsive, and creative. She has an easy way of dealing with situations: she just fixes things." In addition to her corporate practice, Sarah has long been committed to public service and she actively lends her expertise to pro bono initiatives. She reads and speaks Japanese.Sarah represents US and global clients, including Japanese companies doing business in the United States and around the world. Her clients include power developers, investors, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity across a broad range of industries, such as power generation, publishing, biotech and medical devices, and automotive. Enjoying both business and the practice of law, she often acts as outside general counsel for clients without legal departments, in addition to advising on transactions. A recognized leader in her field, Sarah has received numerous industry accolades from her peers and clients. In the words of clients according to the 2020 Chambers USA guide, "She is a brilliant attorney who's insightful, responsive, and creative. She has an easy way of dealing with situations: she just fixes things." In addition to her corporate practice, Sarah has long been committed to public service and she actively lends her expertise to pro bono initiatives. She reads and speaks Japanese.
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- President / the Stella Group, LTD
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- Member of the Board
- Founder and Principal of Ecotopia Consulting
- Principal, Ecotopia Consulting, LLC
Steven Berkenfeld is the founder and principal of Ecotopia Consulting and is primarily engaged in helping early stage, mission driven companies in the development of their business plan and growth strategy with the aim of improving their financeability, enhancing their market adoption and commercialization, and maximizing their impact. Steven was formerly a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Barclays, and has extensive experience that includes all aspects of investment banking, private equity and impact investing. His roles included serving as senior sponsor of the Environmental and Social Impact Banking Initiative, co-heading the Firm's Cleantech Initiative, and leading the banking effort for Emerging Industrial Technology companies. Prior to joining Barclays in 2008, Steven had spent over 21 years at Lehman Brothers. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University, and also has extensive governing and advisory board experience, including with not-for-profit organizations.
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- Executive Director / Research Triangle Energy Consortium
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- Co - Executive Director, the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy, American University
Wil Burns, PhD, is a Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service, at American University and a Senior Fellow in the International Law Research Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). From 2012 to 2014 he founded and directed the MS in Energy Policy and Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses in domestic and international climate change law and domestic energy law. He holds a PhD in International Environmental Law from the University of Wales-Cardiff School of Law. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association and is the President of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. He is also the former Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law interest group of the American Society of International Law. He has taught at Williams College, Colby College, Santa Clara University School of Law and the Monterey Institute of International Studies of Middlebury College. Prior to becoming an academic, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs for the State of Wisconsin and worked in the non-governmental sector for twenty years, including as Executive Director of the Pacific Center for International Studies, a think-tank that focused on implementation of international wildlife treaty regimes, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. He has published over 75 articles in law, science, and policy journals and has co-edited four books. His current areas of research focus are: climate geoengineering; international climate change litigation; adaptation strategies to address climate change, with a focus on the potential role of microinsurance; the effectiveness of international treaty regimes to conserve cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises); and how to effectively operationalize the precautionary principle in international environmental treaty regimes. His edited volume, Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks, is available from Cambridge University Press.
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- Chairman
- Founder
- Member of the Board
Mr. Hollander is a successful serial entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has 39 years of experience in the software industry. He sold his first company to BMC Software for $650 million. His philanthropic activities include Holocaust education and remembrance, economic policy, basic research and energy. He instigated the renewed energy initiative of the Weizmann Institute and is involved with energy research, policy and investment around the world. Mr. Hollander currently serves as a member of the executive board of the Weizmann Institute of Science and of the Board of Councilors, USC - Shoah Foundation. Mr. Hollander lives in Irvine, CA.