Michael T. Eckhart is founding President of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington DC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with members wind, solar, hydro, ocean, geothermal, biomass, biofuels and waste sources of electricity, thermal energy, hydrogen and fuels. At ACORE, he has established a Board of Directors and Advisory Board of 35 national leaders and a membership of over 700 organizations.

In international work, Mr. Eckhart is on the governing bureau of REN 21 global policy network, co-head of the North American Secretariat of REEEP, and U.S. chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy. He initiated and produced the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) world meeting in 2008. He oversees ACORE’s US-China Program, and also maintains strong working relationships in Europe, India and Africa. Representing ACORE, he is an official U.S. Observer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He serves on the Advisory Committee to Prince Charles’ Rainforest Project.

He is a 2009 recipient of the Corporate Responsibility Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2008 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 recipient of RSF’s Good Deal for All Award, and a four-time participant in the Clinton Global Initiative.

Prior to ACORE, he developed financing for solar energy under the SolarBank Initiative through which he trained over 1,000 bankers in India on the financing of solar PV, and for which he was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India in 1998. He also worked extensively in South Africa, founding the Shell-Eskom solar PV joint venture in 1997 which implemented PV on over 10,000 rural homes.

Earlier, he was Chairman & CEO of the power generation development firm United Power Systems, Inc.; Vice President of the venture capital firm Areté Ventures, Inc.; a strategic planner of General Electric Company’s power systems sector; and a Principal with the energy practice of Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he conducted many of the original national studies on the emerging new energy technologies in the 1970s..

Mr. Eckhart served in the US Navy Submarine Service. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Howard Berke is currently executive chairman and co-founder of Konarka Technologies, an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy.

As well, Mr. Berke is a Senior Advisor to Good Energies, a global leading private investment firm in solar photovoltaic companies and wind developers. Good Energies contributes as a strategic investor to the ongoing energy transition process through its long-term investments and its support of development initiatives in the field of clean energy technologies. Good Energies is a member of COFRA Holding AG, Zug/Switzerland and is represented through offices in London, New York, Toronto, Washington DC and Zug (www.goodenergies.com)

Mr. Berke has nearly 30 years of hands-on management experience launching, building and leading both public and private technology companies. This includes over 20 years of general management with full P&L responsibility for eight start-up companies and ten years of business development and marketing focusing on emerging technologies.

He has founded or co-founded 13 start-up companies and has initiated and completed numerous corporate acquisitions, mergers and R&D joint ventures in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He advises start-up companies and entrepreneurs in a wide range of fields including medical devices, biotech informatics, software, networking, telecom and energy technology.
In addition to serving as delegate to the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers, he is a Director of SEIA, formerly was a Board Director for ACORE, has helped to found and organize the New England Clean Energy Council and has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at Yale, Harvard, MIT and elsewhere throughout the world.

Mr. Berke received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Yale University. His academic training includes finance, accounting, operations research, corporate law, architecture and physics.

Dr. Tierney specializes in electric and gas industry policy and economics. Currently managing principal with Analysis Group, she has consulted for companies, governments and non-profits about energy markets, economic and environmental regulation and strategy, and energy facility projects. Her wide array of expertise includes industry restructuring, market analyses, wholesale and retail market design, contract disputes, resource planning, resource procurement analysis, market monitoring, and asset valuations. In addition, Dr. Tierney’s work has covered regional transmission organizations, siting of generation and transmission facilities and natural gas pipeline projects, natural gas markets, electric system reliability, and environmental policy and regulation. A former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy and state public utility commissioner, she is chairman of the board of the Energy Foundation and a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy.

Howard J. Herzog is a Senior Research Engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative. He received his undergraduate and graduate education in Chemical Engineering at MIT. He has industrial experience with Eastman Kodak (1972-1974), Stone & Webster (1975-1978), Aspen Technology (1981-1986), and Spectra Physics (1986-1988). Since 1989, he has been on the MIT research staff, where he works on sponsored research involving energy and the environment, with an emphasis on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (released September, 2005), a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study (released March 2007), and a US delegate to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum's Technical Group (June 2003-September 2007).

Joseph A. Stanislaw is founder of the advisory firm The JAStanislaw Group, LLC, specializing in strategic thinking, sustainability, and environmentally sound investment in energy and technology. He is also an Independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte LLP Energy Resources practice – a role which includes assisting the firm and its clients in identifying and developing services and strategies in meeting the challenges of a changing geopolitical environment, sustainable development, climate change, carbon initiatives and innovation. Dr. Stanislaw was one of three founders of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in 1983 and served as managing director for all non-U.S. activity until 1997, when he was named president and chief executive officer, positions he held until the sale of the firm in 2005.

Dr. Stanislaw is an adjunct professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, where he is a Member of the Board of Advisors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. He serves on the Boards of several corporations in the energy sector which share a specific interest in natural gas, sustainable and carbon neutral development, climate change, and renewable and alternative clean energy technologies. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Stanislaw was a Research Fellow of Clare Hall and lecturer in Economics at Cambridge University, where he was also a member of the Energy Research Group in the University's Cavendish Laboratory. He was a senior economist at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s International Energy Agency in Paris. Dr. Stanislaw is the co-author, with Daniel Yergin, of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. Now in the second edition, the book has been translated into 13 languages and made into a 6-hour documentary on PBS. He is also the author of “Energy in Flux: The 21st Century’s Greatest Challenge”, used as the basis for a 1-hour PBS Documentary (Oil Shockwave) that focuses on the energy security, climate change and economic growth challenge. Dr. Stanislaw has also authored or co-authored numerous reports and published papers on the geopolitics and economics of future energy supply and demand.

Dr. Stanislaw received a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and was awarded an M.A. from the University of Cambridge where he was elected a Research Fellow of Clare Hall. He is one of only several people to have been awarded an Honorary Doctorate and Professorship from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow.

John Robbins is currently a Senior Scientific Advisor in ExxonMobil's Corporate Strategic Research Labs in Annandale, New Jersey. John earned a BA in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before joining Exxon's Corporate Research Labs in 1981.

John's research at ExxonMobil has focused on topics in surface science and heterogeneous catalysis, including characterization of the surfaces of working catalysts, paraffin dehydrogenation, naphtha conversion to aromatics, synthesis gas production, synthesis gas conversion to synthetic fuels, and hydrogen production from hydrocarbons for fuel cell applications. Over the last fifteen years he has held a series of research management positions including Program Leader, Section Head, Portfolio Manager, and Special Projects Manager. Recently, he led an extensive technical review of biofuels options which contributed to the initiation of a major research program in production of biofuels from algae.

John has a long standing interest in energy-related topics and is an internal consultant on hydrogen, biofuels, solar energy, and CO2 chemistry. He served as the ExxonMobil representative in the California Fuel Cell Partnership, the UC Davis Hydrogen Pathways study, and the US Department of Energy's Hydrogen Production Technical Team.

John is an author or co-author of forty three technical publications and patents.

Bruce Everett received a BA from Princeton University in 1969 and a PhD from The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 1980.

Between 1974 and 1980, he served in the Federal Energy Administration and the US Department of Energy in the Office of International Affairs.

He joined ExxonMobil Corporation in 1980 and held a variety of positions, including Manager of Energy Analysis in Esso Europe; Manager of the Coal and Synthetic Fuels Department in Esso Europe; Manager, Supply and Planning in Exxon Coal and Minerals; Operations Manager, The Carter Mining Company; Executive Director, Exxon Energy Limited (Hong Kong); Regional Natural Gas Manager for Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, Exxon Company International and Downstream Government Relations Manager, ExxonMobil Corporation. He retired in 2002.

He currently teaches oil market economics as Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and Adjunct Associate Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School.

He is the author of a popular weekly energy blog at bmeverett.wordpress.com.

Nick is President of the New England Clean Energy Council and is a veteran entrepreneur, having held senior positions in a number of technology companies and start-ups over the past 20 years. Before joining the Council, he was the CEO and founder of Conjoin, a developer of sales productivity software for corporate sales teams. The company was acquired by Intranets.com (subsequently acquired by WebEx). Previously, Nick co-founded and served as VP Marketing for Wildfire Communications, which brought to market a voice recognition-based electronic assistant for managing all of an individual’s telephone activities. Wildfire was acquired by Orange PLC, now a subsidiary of France Telecom. Nick also served as Vice President of Marketing for C-bridge Internet Solutions, Director of Marketing for PRI Automation, and Product Manager for Apollo Computer. Nick is a representative of The Climate Project, trained by former Vice President Al Gore to educate audiences about the science underlying global climate change. He serves on the Board of the Carlisle Conservation Foundation and the Mass Audubon Council. He is also the author of Excessive Entanglement, a novel, published in 2008. Nick holds a BA from Georgetown University.

Dr. Radha Jalan is the President and CEO of ElectroChem Inc., in Woburn, MA. ElectroChem is a world renowned, leading fuel cell company for the development and commercialization of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. ElectroChem’s on-line store, www.fuelcell.com has more than 300 product offerings, many of them manufactured with company’s proprietary technologies. ElectroChem has been developing technologies since 1986, mainly funded by government agencies, such as NASA, DOE, DOD, NSF, and also with some private corporations.

Prior to assuming the leadership of ElectroChem in 1992, Dr. Jalan worked as an educational consultant for institutions like Museum of Fine Arts, Science Museum, Educational Development Center, Arthur D. Little, Digital, and many other State and educational institutions. Dr. Jalan helped in designing programs, offered workshops, and training in the areas of Cultural Diversity, Doing Business Overseas, and outreach to Ethnic Communities.


Dr. Jalan is a highly active member of her community. She has co-founded numerous organizations, and contributes regularly to many more. A partial list of her contributions follows.



Awards and Citations:

Mass High Tech All-Star Award in the field of Energy in 2004
Cited as “Woman to Watch” in Woman’s Business Magazine in 2002
Asian Business Woman of the Year Award in 1997

She has been featured and interviewed by many international and local newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV stations regarding fuel cells, entrepreneurship, women in business, diversity, etc.

Dr. Jalan holds a Ph. D. and M.Ed. from University of Florida, Gainesville, in Education.
She also has a M.A. in Hindi language and Literature from University of Calcutta, India.

After graduating from Boston University, Kropper began his career as ‘Energy Czar’ at Boston City Hospital. After super-insulating his triple-decker home, worldwide oil prices tumbled to $11/barrel, and he decamped to Cornell University to earn his MBA. Next was Cable & Wireless, Bell Canada, Clear Comm. (NZ) and Martin-Marietta. Steve’s research at International Data Corp. spurred untenably high investment flows into telecom, and singlehandedly drove prices to commodity levels. Pursued by an angry mob, Steve hid in exile in the dotcom real estate and mortgage sector. He founded Domania.com (acquired by Lending Tree) the largest US property dataset which gave consumers access to home prices via AOL, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Yahoo, Chase, Citi, etc. He briefly helped export America’s most promising jobs to India while SVP at Equinox (acquired by iFlex). He next advised Virgin Money, New Homes Realty and many other firms that there would be no bubble in real estate.

Founding Fellow, NE Clean Energy Council; Pickens Plan rep., 7th Congressional District. CEO/founder of WindPole Ventures, a wind power and information firm repurposing ATT’s network of 1,150 microwave tower sites.

Steve grew up in Scotland, Ireland and on airplanes. Elected Lexington Town Meeting member and Chair of the Energy Conservation Committee.

Matthew Wolfe is the founder of Madera Energy, Inc (“Madera”). Madera is a renewable energy development company founded in 2008 and based in Cambridge, MA. Madera is the lead developer of a 46 MW clean wood-fired biomass project, Pioneer Renewable Energy, based in Greenfield, MA. Pioneer Renewable Energy would generate enough clean, renewable, and reliable energy to power the equivalent of 45,000 homes. Previous to starting Madera, Mr. Wolfe helped start Tamarack Energy, Inc., a renewable energy development company based in Boston. Mr. Wolfe received his Masters of Arts in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelors in Political Science from Boston College. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and daughter.

Vincent P. Manno is Associate Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, MA. His role as Associate Provost is to coordinate graduate education across the university and oversee several key cross-school initiatives including the Institute for Global Leadership and the Tufts Institute of the Environment. He was Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1993-2001, Associate Dean of Engineering from 2002-5, and Interim Dean of Engineering in 2003. He received a BS from Columbia University and MS, Engineer's and Doctor of Science degrees from M.I.T in nuclear engineering and science. His field of expertise is computational thermal-fluid dynamics including applications in power production, electronics thermal management, and thermal manufacturing processes. He has authored or co-authored more than 140 journal articles, conference proceeding papers and technical reports. Prof. Manno has also worked in the private sector and served as a U.S. Navy Senior Summer Faculty Fellow. His research has been supported by government agencies and industry. He is a recipient of the SAE's Ralph R. Teetor Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in the Thermal Analysis of Electronic Equipment, the ASME Curriculum Innovation Award and the Tufts University Fischer Award as Engineering Teacher of the Year. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Frederick Weston is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Since 1999, when he joined RAP, Mr. Weston has been working extensively in China, assisting in the development of new policy initiatives in efficiency, pricing, and environmental regulation. When not in China, Mr. Weston works with US state and federal policy makers on energy efficiency, renewables, regulatory reform and pricing, regional market operations, and emissions regulation. More recently, he has begun work under the International Energy Agency's DSM Programme.

From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Weston served as Economist and Hearing Officer at the Vermont Public Service Board. He was Co-Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Staff Subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Conservation from 1994 to 1997. He also served as Co-Chair of NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Electric Industry Restructuring in 1996 and 1997.

From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Weston worked as an energy and economic consultant for clients in the U.S. and Middle East. He worked for the American International Group in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1984. Mr. Weston received his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1987 and his B.A. in English Literature from Middlebury College in 1979. He also received advanced intensive training in Arabic from the American University in Cairo in 1986.

Richard N. Swett, FAIA, architect, former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, former Member of Congress, and former State Chair of the U.S. Olympic Committee; he is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a senior fellow and executive board member of the Design Futures Council. He serves on numerous boards and is on the International Advisory Council at APCO Worldwide, a global strategic communications and public relations firm, and is a senior advisor at Greenway Consulting. He currently is Chairman and CEO of Climate PROSPERITY Enterprise Solutions, LLC, a software and development firm that integrates economic, technological and human operational processes to achieve superior performance and sustainability in the built environment. He received his Bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale University. He was bestowed the Grand-Croix of the Order of the Dannebrog,the Danish equivalent of knighthood, from Queen Margrethe II. He lives in Bow, New Hampshire with his wife Katrina Lantos Swett.

Greg Watson is senior advisor for Clean Energy Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and vice president for sustainable development with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Greg’s long life of exemplary, cutting-edge public service has included serving as: executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; director of educational programs for Second Nature; director of The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Regional Office; commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture; and executive director of the New Alchemy Institute.

Gilbert E. Metcalf is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a Research Associate at the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT. Metcalf has taught at Princeton University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and been a visiting scholar at MIT.

Metcalf has served as a consultant to numerous organizations including, among others, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Argonne National Laboratory. He recently served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption. In addition he serves or has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The American Economic Review, and the Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy.

Metcalf's primary research area is applied public finance with particular interests in taxation, energy, and environmental economics. His current research focuses on policy evaluation and design in the area of energy and climate change. He has published papers in numerous academic journals, has edited two books, and has contributed chapters to several books on tax policy. Metcalf received a B.A. in Mathematics from Amherst College, an M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Stephen Champagne is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Enel North America, Inc. (ENA) where he is responsible for legal affairs, business development and human resources. He joined the Company in 2004 following 18 years in private practice as a partner at Curtis Thaxter LLC in Portland, Maine where he worked as outside counsel for ENA and other renewable energy developers working on wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, landfill gas and solar developments. Mr. Champagne has worked on the acquisition, development and financing of over 150 renewable energy projects, in addition to being extensively involved in the day to day legal issues faced by operating renewable assets. He has also advised utilities on their restructuring activities and foreign countries on renewable energy policy including Peru, Bolivia, India and the Philippines.

Mr. Champagne holds a JD degree and bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. He also served as a judicial clerk for Justice David A. Nichols of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Enel North America, Inc. is a leading developer, owner and operator of renewable energy projects in North America, with a presence in 20 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. Based in Massachusetts, ENA has a uniquely diversified renewable energy portfolio, generating electric power from wind, hydro, biomass and geothermal projects. This dedication to a quadruple suite of renewable technologies sets ENA apart from other independent power producers.

ENA is a subsidiary of Enel Green Power, the renewable power subsidiary of the Italian based utility, Enel S.p.A. Enel Green Power’s business incorporates all of Enel’s activities in the wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and biomass fields in Europe, North America and Central and South America. With approximately 4,700 MW of installed capacity and 17.2 TWh of produced electricity in 2008, Enel Green Power is a leading global company in renewables.

Dr. Tom Drennen is an Associate Professor of Economics and the Chair of Environmental Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He also serves as Senior Economist at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Drennen received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT, M.A. in Public Affairs from Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and Ph.D. in Resource Economics from Cornell University.

Waltham, MA. January 25, 2010 – Global Energy Investors, LLC (GEI), a Project Equity Firm investing in renewable energy power generation projects, has named John P. Harper as Managing Director – Project Finance. Harper is responsible for leading the firm’s renewable energy project investments and co-managing GEI’s relationships with project developers. He will also join GEI’s Investment and Executive Committees.

Previously, John founded and managed Birch Tree Capital, LLC, an independent advisory firm structuring the financing of solar photovoltaic, wind, and other renewable power generation projects. Prior to Birch Tree, he held senior finance roles with Ze-Gen, Inc.; enXco, Inc.; ABB Energy Capital, LLC; and Wartsila Power Development Company. He began his financing activities at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), where his responsibilities included managing debt financing activities in the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Harper holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Pomona College. He has been a judge for the MIT Enterprise Forum’s Ignite Clean Energy business plan competition since its inception and has lectured on renewable power project financing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Mr. Harper is a member of the New England Clean Energy Council, the American Council on Renewable Energy, and Environmental Entrepreneurs.

The GridSolar Project represents an innovative use of distributed solar generation in combination with Smart-Grid technologies to meet the impacts that peak load growth may have on the reliability of our CMP’s bulk power systems. The GridSolar Project is a game-changer for the development of solar power and for Maine’s future economic development, by altering in a fundamental way the economics of solar power development. The use of distributed solar generation to provide grid reliability services is a cost-effective alternative to spending billions of dollars on transmission reliability upgrades, while providing significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and serving as the catalyst for the creation of thousands of “green” jobs in Maine.

Dr. Richard Silkman is a founding partner of GridSolar, LLC. Dr. Silkman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and is a nationally recognized expert in the regulation of public utilities, the development of competitive energy markets and the development, licensing and operation of power plants, including hydroelectric generating stations. He is a Managing Partner of CES, an energy procurement and consulting firm based in Portland. CES was founded in 1999 and today serves over approximately 5,000 clients in the Northeast and Atlantic states (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland), as well as customers in Illinois and Canada. Collectively, these customers spend approximately $1 billion a year on energy.

For more information about the GridSolar Project, please visit their web site – www.gridsolarme.com – or call them in Portland at (207) 772-6190.

William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he is the founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, the Tufts Climate Initiative and co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute. He graduated from Williams in 1959, and is a physical chemist with a PhD from MIT. He works to translate science and technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools. His major publications are on climate change, energy policy, nitrogen pollution, forestry financing and management and on theoretical topics such as the Environmental Kuznets Curve. He was a coordinating lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and for the special report on renewable energy due in 2010. He was a lead author of three other IPCC reports (1995, 2005 and 2007). The work of the IPCC was recognized with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He also was an author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment on nitrogen and serves on the Integrated Nitrogen Committee of the EPA Science Advisory board. He was the first director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution program at the World Resources Institute, and directed the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College where he held an endowed chair in chemistry. He has received Teaching Awards at both Williams and at The Fletcher School, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Belgrade for his work on sustainable development. As an AAAS Congressional Science Fellow, he worked on legislation that eliminated American use of CFCs in spray cans to protect the ozone layer, and also worked on energy and forestry legislation. Dr. Moomaw currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Climate Group, Clean Air-Cool Planet (which he co-founded), Earthwatch Institute, Center for Ecological Technologies and the Consensus Building Institute. He has facilitated sessions with negotiators of international treaties. He and his wife, Margot have just completed a highly efficient zero net energy home in Williamstown that uses no fossil fuels. It is one of a handful of such homes to be built in northern climate zones, and its performance is being monitored for performance for the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Dr. Massoud Amin, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, and is the Director of the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI) at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities. His areas of expertise include: Systems and Controls; Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP); Development and Management of R&D initiatives; Strategic Planning and Implementation.

Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in March 2003, Dr. Amin held positions of increased responsibility including the Area Manager of Infrastructure Security, Grid Operations/Planning, and Energy Markets at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California, where he led the development of more than 24 technologies transferred to industry, and is considered the inventor of the smart grid.

In the aftermath of the tragic events of 9/11, he directed all security-related research and development at EPRI, including the Infrastructure Security Initiative (ISI) and the Enterprise Information Security (EIS). Prior to October 2001, he served as manager of mathematics and information science at EPRI, where he led strategic research in modeling, simulation, optimization, and adaptive control of national infrastructures for energy, telecommunication, transportation, and finance.

At EPRI, Dr. Amin developed collaborative research initiatives with diverse groups, including electric power industry, the government, universities and other stakeholders (including EPRI and its members, the US DOD, DOE, NSF, National Governors' Association, NRC/NAE, and the White House OSTP). This primarily involved creation and successful launch of the Complex Interactive Networks/Systems Initiative (CIN/SI), initiated in mid-1998 in response to growing concerns over the vulnerability of critical national infrastructures. CIN/SI developed six research consortia consisting of 108 professors and over 200 researchers in 28 U.S. universities, along with two energy companies, co-funded equally by EPRI and the U.S. DOD. In the course of the CIN/SI, Dr. Amin pioneered R&D in the smart grid and self-healing infrastructures.

Prior to joining EPRI in January 1998, he held positions of associate professor of systems science and mathematics and associate director of the Center for Optimization & Semantic Control at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. During his twelve years at Washington University, he was one of the main contributors to several projects with United States Air Force, NASA-Ames, Rockwell International, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, MEMC, ESCO, Systems & Electronics Inc. and United Van Lines.

He has worked with military, government, universities, companies, and private agencies, focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of reconfigurable and self-repairing controls, infrastructure security, risk-based decision making, system optimization, and differential game theory for aerospace, energy, and transportation applications. Dr. Amin twice received Chauncey Awards at EPRI, the institute’s highest honor.

Dr. Amin serves on several boards including the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2001-2007), and is a member of the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Amin is the author or co-author of more than 180 peer reviewed research papers, the editor of seven collections of manuscripts, and serves on the editorial boards of six academic journals. For additional information, presentations, publications, please see http://umn.edu/~amin for selected presentations and publications.

Sara Greenbaum is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI). Ms. Greenbaum leads the development of annual plans, deliverables, and budgets for all program teams and directs strategy execution, working to overcome barriers to project implementation.

Ms. Greenbaum has been at the Clinton Foundation for over four years. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of CCI and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). She was a founding member of CCI, working with the Chairman to define its scope and develop its initial strategy, and starting up field operations for its Cities Program throughout the world.

Prior to joining the Clinton Foundation, Ms. Greenbaum held positions in business development at Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, an international law firm; in communications at the Massachusetts State House, for the Senate President; and in editorial production at CNN while completing her studies. Ms. Greenbaum graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University.

David Lee is a Graduate Researcher at the SENSEable City Laboratory, and a PhD candidate in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He has worked on a number of sustainability-focused projects with the lab, including Trash Track (electronically tracking movement of waste) and MIT Enernet (improving building energy efficiency using location data). He is interested in human behavioral response to real-time information feedback systems, and how digital technology can transform public discourse on critical urban issues.

David has also worked with the International Economic Development Council and the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. As a Fulbright Scholar, he conducted research and instructed courses in urban design in Seoul, Korea. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in city planning from MIT in 2007.

Ann Rappaport has been a faculty member in the Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy since 1995. She earned a B.A. in environmental studies and Asian studies from Wellesley College, a M.S. in civil engineering from MIT, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Tufts University. She has helped develop and implement the hazardous waste regulatory program in Massachusetts, and maintains an active interest in the dynamic relationship between environmental laws and regulations and innovations in environmental technology and corporate management of environmental issues. She is the author of Development and Transfer of Pollution Prevention Technology and co-author of Corporate Responses to Environmental Challenges: Initiatives by Multinational Management. Her current research interests include enterprise-level decision making with respect to the environment, institutional responses to climate change, voluntary initiatives related to companies and the environment, and contemporary issues in corporate social responsibility. Her most recent book, Degrees That Matter: Climate Change and the University (co-authored with Sarah Hammond Creighton) examines the leadership role that universities play and features the Tufts Climate Initiative <http://www.tufts.edu/tci/>, the university commitment to meet or beat the emission reductions associated with the Kyoto Protocol.

ML Chan, PhD, China Executive Director of Smart Grid Cooperative, JUCCCE, and Executive Advisor and Vice President, Asian Business Development, Quanta Technology, LLC

Dr. Chan is an expert in the areas of Smart Grid and the utilization of computer and communications system technologies to deliver power system reliability, performance improvement, and optimal asset management for utilities. He combines his power system planning and operations expertise to integrate renewable, distributed energy resources, demand responses and load management, AMI/AMR systems, Home Automation Network (HAN), feeder automation, substation automation, SCADA, asset condition monitoring, condition-based maintenance (CBM), synchrophasor measurement unit, wide area protection and FACTS technologies into a Smart Grid vision for utilities. The full realization of that vision is made possible when Dr. Chan guides utilities in developing and implementing enterprise IT system architecture to provide business intelligence for utility operations. His environmental resource management background since the 70’s also provides him with significant insight to integrate renewable resources, demand side management, carbon footprint reduction and efficient energy building technologies into utility operations and planning. For more than 30 years, Dr. Chan has provided consulting services to over 70 utilities in the United States and around the world. He has published over 60 technical papers in the open literature, and has given many presentations and speeches in seminars and tutorials. He is the Chair of IEEE Power System Planning and Implementation Committee, and a member of Executive Advisory Committee for DistrbuTECH Conferences. He is also on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Dr. Chan has SB, SM and Electrical Engineer’s degrees from MIT, and PhD from Cornell University. Prior to joining Quanta Technology and JUCCCE, he has worked with Energy Resources Company, Tetra Tech, Systems Control, Inc., Energy Management Associates, ECC, Inc., ML Consulting Group, SchlumbergerSema, and KEMA, Inc.

Carter Page, CFA, is a founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital. He spent 7 years as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch in London, Moscow and New York where he most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of the Energy and Power Group. He was involved in over $25 billion of transactions in the energy and power sector. He spent 3 years in Moscow where he was responsible for the opening of the Merrill office and was an advisor on key transactions for Gazprom, RAO UES and others. Previously, Carter was a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he was responsible for energy-related research on the Caspian Sea region. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, holds a MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Carter is a frequent writer and lecturer on energy sector development in emerging markets and teaches at Bard College in New York City.

Dr. Michael Quah joined the Energy Studies Institute (ESI) as Principal Fellow and Chief Scientist, Energy Systems and Technology in October, 2009. He is also affiliated with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) as a Visiting Fellow and with NUS Enterprise as an Executive Advisor. Before coming to Singapore he was the Executive Director / Corporate Technology Fellow in Concurrent Technologies Corporation.

During his working career of almost 30 years, he primarily worked for the DuPont Company in R&D, product and business development, and management. His technical work revolved around membrane technologies for reverse osmosis, gas separations, and electrochemical processes, the last area stimulating his interest in alternative energy innovations. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.

After early retirement from DuPont , he held management positions in several companies in areas related to materials, components, and devices for alternative energy systems as well as an independent consultant.

Dr. Quah holds the following degrees from Yale University: Ph.D. (1980), M. Phil. (1978), M.Sc. (1975), Chemical Engineering and has a B.A. [magna cum laude] (1974), Chemistry and Physics, from Harvard University.

Eric's research focuses on cross-disciplinary policy analysis for sustainable development strategies. He has contributed to studies on diverse topics of relevance to sustainability at national, regional, and global levels. In addition to developing methods and tools for sustainability analysis, he is interested is in making the analytical tools of policy analysis accessible within collaborative, stakeholder-driven approaches to policy development. He has been involved in capacity building activities in countries in Africa and Asia. Dr. Kemp-Benedict's work has been supported by international organizations, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations.

Eric received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Boston University in 1997 and his MAT for secondary physics education from Tufts University in 2003.

Partha S. Ghosh, a true global citizen, is a renowned management consultant and policy advisor for Corporates and Governments. He is known worldwide as an innovator of business and economic models and currently involved in extensive consulting engagements with multiple organizations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. He has done extensive work to assess strategic and technology issues in the Energy Industry both conventional and emerging renewable systems. His clients view him as a “creative problem solver” and a “visionary leader.” Mr. Ghosh was a partner at McKinsey & Company and is the founder / director of Partha S Ghosh & Associates. On specific courses/projects he has been active at MIT and Harvard University on strategic management design and leadership issues, and more recently with the Tufts University Gordon Institute he is a professor focusing on globalization & innovation. He has two advanced Engineering and Management degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his bachelor with honors at Indian Institute of Technology.