Dr. Marilyn A. Brown is a Professor of Energy Policy in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Visiting Distinguished Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, Dr. Brown co-led the report, Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future, which remains a cornerstone of engineering-economic analysis of low-carbon energy options for the United States. She was designated a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007. She is the lead author of Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011) and the co-editor with Benjamin K. Sovacool of Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths (2007). In October 2010, she was sworn onto the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider, following her nomination by President Barack Obama.

Wil Burns is Associate Director of the Energy Policy & Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University. His research focus is on climate change law and policy issues at the international level, including climate change litigation, geoengineering, and adaptation responses. He holds a Ph.D. 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-Elect 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. 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.

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.

Dave Goldstein is a multi-talented electric and hybrid vehicle expert whose career began shortly before the Iranian Oil Crisis of 1979, when he initiated one of the first EV demonstration efforts in the nation for the Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Energy Office and the U.S. Department of Energy. In 1980, he co-founded the nonprofit Electric Vehicle Association of Washington, D.C. (EVA/DC) as a coalition of EV owners and enthusiasts, educators and entrepreneurs, and has served continually as President until 2011 when he was awarded President Emeritus. In 1992, Dave co-founded the Electric Vehicle Industry Association (EVIA) on behalf of independent EV manufacturers, converters and suppliers, serving as Washington Representative. Since 1994, he has served on DOE advisory boards, working with Argonne National Laboratories on the EVTECA project to compare energy efficiencies and emissions of alternative fuel vehicles; the DOE ad hoc Advanced Battery Readiness Working Group (ABRWG) to eliminate barriers to advanced battery production, shipping, recycling and safety; and as a member of the DOE Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) Stakeholders’ Advisory Group. As both an independent business consultant and consumer representative, Dave draws upon the combined talents of a capable EV technician, fleet and facility manager, program manager, government affairs representative, radio and TV broadcaster, producer, writer, energy policy analyst and educator. He has worked with inner-city schools and universities to promote science, math and engineering through the development of solar and battery-powered racing vehicles. He has written a number of magazine articles and has been interviewed as an EV expert by major news media throughout the world, including Fox Business News, National Public Radio, NBC and the Voice of America. Dave currently moderates the EV track on OurEnergyPolicy.org and is a member of the IEEE Energy Policy Committee. As an independent consultant, Dave has provided a range of services to electric utilities, EV manufacturers and converters, advanced battery manufacturers and end users, and has worked for Planning Research Corporation and Booz Allen & Hamilton. He is a Washington, D.C. native with a BA in Communications from the University of Maryland and postgraduate work in Computer Science and Management from UMD and USDA Graduate School. He has been married for 37 years and owns four cars, including an EV and a PHEV.

Robert Grant is an independent energy consultant based in Washington DC, where he provides advice and support to Government and private sector clients on strategy, policy, communications and outreach. For the past decade, Robert Grant has served as a policy-maker, political advisor and diplomat for the British Government. Following various domestic policy positions at the U.K. Environment Ministry, including as the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Minister of State, Robert served as the British Government’s chief representative on energy issues, at the British Embassy in Washington DC. During his time at the Embassy, Robert represented national and commercial interests to the U.S. Administration and Congress on international and domestic energy and environment policy. Having worked at the center of U.S., 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.

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.

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 Sullivan and Worcester 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

Andrew C. Kadak is a Director and Principal of Exponent, Inc., a science and engineering based consulting firm. 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.

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).

Melanie A. Kenderdine joined the MIT Energy Initiative in March, 2007. She is a member of a three-person management team of this large and growing program, designed to help meet the world's energy challenges through research, education and outreach. In this capacity, she was a member of the research team for MIT's Future of Natural Gas Study and is the rapporteur, report author and editor for the MITEI Symposium Series reports which include Retrofitting Existing Coal Plants for Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Electrification of the Transportation System and the Impacts of Intermittent Generation on Baseload Power Plant Operations. 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. Prior to joining DOE, she worked as chief of staff and as legislative director for New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson, who was later named US Secretary of Energy.

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.

Michael Lubell is a Professor of Physics at the City College of the City University of New York and 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.

David J. Manning is a Senior Vice President and Energy Practice Leader for Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., a Boston based engineering firm with offices throughout the Eastern United States. The firm’s primary areas of focus, in addition to energy, include environment, transportation, and land use. Mr. Manning also advises M.J. Bradley & Associates, an engineering and consulting firm which focuses on the convergence of energy and the environment. Previously, Mr. Manning was Executive Vice President of External Affairs and Chief Environmental Officer for KeySpan / National Grid, the second largest gas & electric utility 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 in government 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.

I am 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, I started my career in physics, thermal hydraulics, and heat transfer. In 1965, I joined the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) where I established national containment acceptance criteria. Later, as the AEC licensing manager for the Indian Point 3 (IP3) Plant, I completed its safety review, wrote the safety evaluation report, and presented my results before the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). This led to the licensing of this plant. I was then selected by AEC Commissioner Doub to serve at diplomat rank at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria (1974-1979). I led the efforts of some the world’s outstanding nuclear design experts. We produced a series of international nuclear design safety standards. I returned in 1979 to the Department of Energy where I worked on the safety of our Defense Nuclear Systems. In 1981 the New York Power Authority (NYPA) offered me the position of Manager of an adjudicatory hearing defending IP3. I developed the technical strategy for this case and wrote major portions of the testimony presented to the court. Some of my material was published in the NY Times. This case was successfully concluded in 1985. Later, as Technical Advisor to NYPA’s Executive Vice President, I was asked by the Department of Energy to chair a national committee on emergency planning. Our final report was forwarded to Congress. I also chaired NUMARC’s Task Force on Emergency Planning. Our NUMARC report (NUMARC/NESP-005) was distributed to all U.S. nuclear utilities. I was a guest lecturer at Harvard for over five years on emergency planning. I also directed NYPA’s efforts on the hardened vent issue, saving the company over one million dollars. As part of this effort I discovered that the NRC’s cost/benefit equation was incorrect. I then worked with EPRI to provide the correct formulation. In the source term area I directed NYPA’s computer code development for severe accident analysis. I presented results before the American Physical Society, the ACRS, and the NRC. I served on a DOE source term committee and was a principal speaker at an ANS Executive Conference on source terms. In 1987, I conducted a major review of the NRC’s NUREG-1150, gave testimony to NRC expert panels and to the American Nuclear Society’s Special Committee on Source Terms. I published source term papers in “Nuclear Engineering and Design” and elsewhere. In 1992 I 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. I have 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 I wrote the ANS Policy Statement on RBR. In addition to my RBR activities, I have published extensively on other nuclear safety issues, on the environment, and on energy policy matters. I have served on an editorial board of an international energy journal.

Sarah White (Ph.D. Columbia University, B.A. Wellesley College) is a Senior Associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. Her work at COWS focuses on sustainable workforce strategies, both local and national, including green career pathways in the clean energy economy. White came to COWS from Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development, where she served as the Secretary’s policy and budget analyst for federal employment and training programs. Before that, she ran the Development Education Office of Interfaith Hunger Appeal in New York, working to integrate academic and NGO efforts addressing food security, poverty and sustainable development. A labor historian by training, White has written widely on political mobilization and education for social change.