Mr. Ashvin Dayal, Senior VP, Power and Climate, The Rockefeller Foundation

Dr. Rebekah Shirley, Director of Research, Data & Innovation, WRI Africa

Ms. Dana Harmon, Executive Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute

Moderator: Dr. Varun Rai, Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin

Tânia Sousa, Auxiliary Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon University)

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Anna Broughel, Program Director of Energy Leadership, Clean Energy Leadership Institute; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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Jared Babula, Senior Attorney, California Energy Commission; Faculty member, Empire School of Law

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Todd A. Snitchler, President and CEO, Electric Power Supply Association

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Eric Danziger, Managing Director – Energy Transition, Riverbend Energy Group

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Raiford Smith, Products and Technology, X: The Moonshot Factory

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Akshai Rao, Sr Vice President, Ancillary Services, Yardi Systems

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Panel Discussion

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Distinguished Lecture Series of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business:

• Shawn Cumberland, Managing Partner, Energy Transition, Encap Investments L.P.

• Deniz Dindoruk, Senior Development Manager, Shell

• Will Glazener, Solution Leader, McKinsey & Company

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Emre Gencer, Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative

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Brett Perlman, CEO, Center for Houston’s Future

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Mik Carbajales-Dale, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Clemson University

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Robert Kleinbaum, Technical Fellow, General Motors

Blair Fix, Political Economist, University of Toronto

Suzi Kerr, Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund

Marc Hafstead, Fellow and Director, Resources for the Future

Matto Mildenberger, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara

William Boyd, Professor, UCLA

Lesley Jantarasami, Associate Director for Energy and Climate, Bipartisan Policy Center

Ryan Sitton, Founder and CEO, Pinnacle

Michael Young, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

Tiago Domingos, Associate Professor in Environment and Energy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Michael Davidson, Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego

Hao Zhu, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Paul Brockway, University Academic Fellow, Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of Leeds, UK

Robert Bryce, Journalist, Podcaster, and Documentary Producer

The Honorable Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, U.S. House of Representatives (TX-7), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Energy & Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Noah Kaufman, Research Scholar, SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University 

Alex Hanson, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

David Spence, Professor of Law, School of Law and McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin

Demond Drummer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, New Consensus

Vincent Kaminski, Professor in the Practice of Energy Management, The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University

Zoltan Nagy, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering and Director, Intelligent Environments Lab, The University of Texas at Austin

Matthias Raab, Chief Operating Officer, CO2CRC Ltd.; Max Watson, Senior Manager - Technology Development, CO2CRC Ltd.

Adam Brandt, Associate Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University

Tom "Smitty" Smith, Executive Director, Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance

Ellen B. Stechel, Co-Director ASU-LightWorks® and Professor of Practice, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University

Bill Hicks, Global Technology Sponsor, Energy & Profitability Solutions, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering and Keen Seng Cheah, Energy Asset Support Lead & Americas DTL, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Suzanne Bertin, Managing Director of the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance

Joseph A. Tainter, Professor of Sustainability in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University

Timothy Latimer, Co-Founder and CEO of Fervo Energy

Costa Samaras, Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Wen Song, Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

David Spence (Professor, Baker Botts Chair in Law, Professor of Business, Govt. & Society)
Larry Lake (Professor, Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering)
David Adelman (Professor, Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law)
Sheila Olmstead (Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs)
Susan Hovorka (Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology)
Carey King (Research Scientist & Assistant Director, Energy Institute)

Joni Carswell, CEO and President of Texan by Nature (TxN)

Dr. Sol Hart, Associate Professor in Communication and Media and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan

Barbara Finamore, Natural Resources Defense Council; Senior Attorney and Senior Strategic Director for Asia

Dr. Joel Landry, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics at Penn State University

Dr. John Besley, Ellis N. Brandt Professor of Public Relations at Michigan State University

Kara Kockelman, the Dewitt Greer Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Frank Male, postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

Mike Sloan, Virtus Energy Research Associates

Tim Siegler, postdoctoral researcher in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware

Asher Price, Journalist, Austin American-Statesman and 2109 Energy Institute Journalism Fellow

Edward Mantey, GVP and Executive Advisor of Corporate Strategy & Planning and R&D at Toyota Motor North America

Brent Bennett, Policy Analyst, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Managing Director, Energy Analysis, American Gas Association

Eliván Martínez Mercado, UT Energy Journalism Fellow

Monika Ehrman, Faculty Director, Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center (ONE C), The University of Oklahoma College of Law

Mason Inman, lead analyst, Near Zero

Susan Krumdieck, Professor, Mech. Eng., University of Canterbury New Zealand

Carla Lacerda, President, ExxonMobil Brazil

Carey King, Assistant Director and Research Scientist, UT Austin Energy Institute

Adam Warren, Director, Integrated Applications Center, NREL

Justin Ritchie, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia

Michael Wara, Director, Climate and Energy Policy Program, Senior Research Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Martin Stuermer, Sr. Research Economist, Research Dept., Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

David Firestein, Executive Director, China Public Policy Center; Clinical Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School, UT Austin

Maya Rao, Washington correspondent for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune writer and author of Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of an Oil Frontier

Kate Zerrenner, Senior Manager, Energy-Water Initiatives, Environmental Defense Fund

Dana Harmon, Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute

Richard Chuchla, Director, Energy and Earth Resources program, Jackson School of Geosciences

Peter Cramton, Professor of Economics, University of Cologne and University of Maryland

Mike Nicholas, Senior Researcher, The International Council on Clean Transportation

Robert Hebner, Director, Center for Electromechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

David Hurlbut, Senior Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Eugenio J. Miravete, Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin

Raj Patel, Research Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Jay Banner, ESI | Richard Corsi, CAEE | Michael Young, BEG | Heather Houser, English

Bill Cannon, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Environment & Infrastructure Group Sumitomo Corporation of Americas

Robert J. King, President, Good Company Associates

Fred Beach, Assistant Director for Policy Studies, Energy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

Todd Davidson, Research Associate, Energy Institute and Webber Energy Group, The University of Texas at Austin

Garvin Boyle, principal designer and programmer, Orrery Software

Alan Lloyd, Research Fellow, Energy Institute, UT Austin; Former Secretary, California EPA; Former Chair, California Air Resources Board

Gürcan Gülen, Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences

Rohit Chandra, PhD Student, Kennedy School at Harvard

Richard Morgan, Sr. Energy Codes Manager, South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER)

David Kultgen,  General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Arabian American Oil Company (retired)

John R Schramski, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Georgia

Jessika Trancik, Professor in Energy Studies, Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT

Neil McAndrews, Economist with Austin Chapter of US Association for Energy Economics

Matthew Heun, Professor of Engineering at Calvin College

Juan Torres, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy Systems Integration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Maria Gallucci, 2017-2018 UT Energy Journalism Fellow

Charles Forsberg, Director and a Principle Investigator of the DOE Integrated Research Project on Fluoride-salt-cooled High-Temperature Reactors (FHRs), MIT

Kevan Weaver, Director of Technology Integration, TerraPower

Dave Nagel, Professor, George Washington University

John Goodenough, Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Dave Adelman, Professor, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin

Gene Preston, CEO, Transmission Adequacy Consulting

Matt Grocoff, Principal, THRIVE Collaborative

Robert Gardner, Manager, Economics and Energy Division, Corporate Strategic Planning at ExxonMobil

Peter Muhoro, Director of Energy Research and Strategies, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC)

Lorne Matalon, UT Energy Journalism Fellow and reporter for National Public Radio in West Texas

David Biello, Science Curator at TED Conferences

Dale Klein, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the UT System and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Jorge Piñon, Director of UT Austin’s Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program

Varun Rai, Associate Professor at the UT Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs

Michael Legatt, CEO and Founder at ResilientGrid

Eric Kemp-Benedict, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Daniel Zavala, post-doctoral-scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund

Jon Wellinghoff, Chief Policy Officer at SolarCity and former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2009 – 2013)

George Schaefer, retired senior financial executive with over 30 years’ experience in the independent power industry

Barbara Tyran, Executive Director, Government & External Relations, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Colin Meehan, Director, Regulatory & Public Affairs, First Solar

Elizabeth Stein, Senior Manager – New York Clean Energy Law & Policy, Environmental Defense Fund

Russell Gold, senior energy reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Dan Matisoff, Associate Professor, The School of Public Policy, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech

Virginia Lacy, Principal, RMI Electricity Practice

Paul Wattles, Senior Analyst, Market Design, ERCOT

Marilu Hastings, Vice President, Sustainability Program, The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Yaneer Bar-Yam, President, New England Complex Systems Institute

Bert Haskell, Chief Technology Officer, Pecan Street Inc.

Dr. Susan Hovorka, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

Joshua Busby, Associate Professor, LBJ School, UT Austin and Sarang Shidore, Visiting Scholar at LBJ School, UT Austin

Mason Inman, Author of The Oracle of Oil

• Martha Gross, Texas Materials Lab: Hybrid Zinc Batteries for Grid-Level Storage
• Thomas Deetjen, Webber Energy Group: Challenges for grid-level solar integration: generator dispatch concerns and possible solutions
• Vivek Nath, LBJ School of Public Policy: Drivers of Plug-In Electric Vehicle Adoption in California

Raiford Smith, Vice President, Corporate Development and Planning, CPS Energy

Nikit Abhyankar, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, International Energy Studies Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Alex Luce, Program Manager, CalCharge

Mitch Jacobson, Co-Director, ATI Clean Energy Incubator

Matthew Nordan, Managing Partner, MNL Partners

Tim Fitzgerald, Professor, Texas Tech

Sebastian Souyris, PhD candidate in UT’s McCombs School of Business: Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar panels – A Dynamic Discrete Choice Approach

Sean Wood, Chemical Engineering PhD student: Looking Towards Higher-Capacity Anode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries.

Kate Larsen, Director, Rhodium Group

Nicholas Muller, Associate Professor, Middlebury College

Francis O’Sullivan, Director, Research and Analysis, MIT

Zin Smati, President & CEO, GDF Suez Energy North America

Jonathan Silver, President & CEO, Greenbanc Global

Martin Kenney, Professor, University of California – Davis

Shahzeen Attari, Assistant Professor, Indiana University

Ariane Beck, Research Fellow, the University of Texas at Austin

David Popp, Professor, Syracuse University

Nihar Patel, Former Vice President, North American Business Strategy Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

Doug Arent, Executive Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Dave Tuttle, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

• Margaret Cook (CAEE)
• Donna Chen (CAEE)
• Alex Headley (ME)

CAEE team presentation by Richard Corsi, Lance Manuel, Atila Novoselac, Kara Kockelman, Charles Werth, Kevin Folliard

Jay Banner, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin

David Livingston, Associate, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Richie Ahuja, Regional Director for Asia, Environmental Defense Fund

Kelly Klima, Research Scientist, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Benjamin Sovacool, Director, Danish Center for Energy Technology at AU-Herning and Professor of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark

Brian Korgel, Edward S. Hyman Endowed Chair in Engineering & T. Brockett Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director, Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics, The University of Texas at Austin

Lori Bennear, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Duke University

Mehrdad Ehsani, Robert M. Kennedy Endowed Professor, Director, Sustainable Energy & Vehicle Engineering Program, Power Electronics & Motor Drives Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

Gus Lott, Senior Engineer, YarCom Inc.

David Allen, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

• Charlie Upshaw, PhD student with the Webber Energy Group: “Modeling Peak Load Reduction and Energy Consumption Enabled by an Integrated Thermal Energy and Water Storage System for Residential Air Conditioning Systems in Austin, Texas”
• Erik Funkhouser, researcher with the Energy Systems Transformation group at UT: “Commercial Innovations in Community-scale Distributed Generation”

Mike Jackson, Partner, The Westly Group

Paul Hudson, Managing Partner, Stratus Energy Group, LLC

Kiran Lakkaraju, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Joanna Lewis, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Fred Beach, Assistant Director, Energy Institute

Panel discussion with Clay Butler (The Butler Firm), Colin Meehan (First Solar), and Spivey Paup (E.ON Renewables)

Steve Puller, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

Cris Eugster, Executive Vice President, Chief Generation and Strategy Officer, CPS Energy

Arnulf Grubler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Yale University

• Brent Bennett, PhD student, Materials Science and Engineering: “Redox Flow Batteries: How Cutting-Edge Chemistry Will Transform the Electric Grid”
• Sean Wood, PhD student, Chemical Engineering: “Improved Lithium-ion Batteries using Lead Telluride (PbTe)”

Inês Azevedo, Assistant Professor and Co-director, Climate and Energy Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University

James Wasley, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, Harvard University

Carrie Armel, Research Associate, Stanford University

Craig Boice, President Boice Dunham Group

David Spence, Associate Professor, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

William C. Ostendorff, Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner

Russell Gold, Senior Energy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

J. Calvin Crowder, President, Electric Transmission Texas

Sheila Olmstead, Associate Professor at UT Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs

Paulina Jaramillo, Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

Duncan Callaway, Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley

Jim Malewitz, Energy Reporter at The Texas Tribune

Andrew Maxson, Program Manager at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

David Arfin, Special Advisor at the Department of Energy

Balu Balagopal, CEO at Nat-G

Helen Currie, Senior Economist at ConocoPhillips

Greg Nemet, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

• Craig Andrew Milroy, PhD student, Chemical Engineering: “Lithium-sulfur batteries”
• Daniel Urieli, PhD student, Computer Science: “A Learning Agent for Heat-Pump Thermostat Control”
• Krystian Perez, PhD student, Chemical Engineering: “Smart Use of Smart Meters: Disaggregation of A/C Loads from Residential Homes”

Jeffrey Alexander, Associate Director for Research & Analytics, SRI International

Randy Foutch, Chairman and CEO, Laredo Petroleum

Ryan Wiser, Staff Scientist and Deputy Group Leader in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions

Bob Metcalfe, Professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

• Josh Rhodes, Webber Energy Group, “Data-Driven Results from the Pecan Street Smart Grid Demonstration Project”
• Robert Fares, Mechanical Engineering, “Towards a Distributed Grid: A Quantitative Assessment of Community Energy Storage for Islanding”
• Steve Bourne, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, “Thermal Storage and the Building Side of Smartgrid”

Varun Rai, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin

John McDonald, Director, Technical Strategy & Policy Development, GE Energy Management – Digital Energy

John Hays, Adjunct Professor of Energy Law at the UT School of Law and Partner at Hays & Owens LLP

Sherman Elliott, Consultant and Former Commissioner at the Illinois Commerce Commission (Jan ’08 – Mar ’12)

Thomas Dietz, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy, Michigan State University

Scott Gaille, Adjunct Professor of Management at Rice University and Chief Compliance Officer for ZaZa Energy Corporation

Dale Klein, Associate Director of the Energy Institute, Associate Vice President for research at UT Austin and former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Alan Goodrich, Senior Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Kate Galbraith, energy and environment reporter for the Texas Tribune

J. Eric Bickel, Professor, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

UT Senior Research Scientist Dr. Susan Hovorka, UT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gary Rochelle, and Douglas Heguy, Commercial Leader of Gasification at GE

Eric Bradley, Vice President for Strategy at IPR-GDF Suez North America

Arun Banskota, President of Electric Vehicle Services, NRG Energy

Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Doyle N. Beneby, CEO, CPS Energy

• Ashlynn Stillwell, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering: “Energy-Water Nexus: Water Impacts on Thermoelectric Power Generation”
• Yezhou Wang, Electrical Engineering: “Power Grid Safety and Security: How to Keep Your Lights On”
• Scott Robinson, Energy and Earth Resources and LBJ School of Public Affairs: “Behavioral Pathways in the Diffusion of Residential Solar PV”
• Steve Bryant, Petroleum Engineering: “Refracturing: Getting More out of Unconventional Resources”

Matt Fajkus, Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Architecture, Principal Architect of Matt Fajkus Architecture, LLC

Dr. Kara Kockelman, Professor & William J. Murray Jr. Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

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Thomas Mason, Former General Manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) and currently with the law firm Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody

Ashmeet Sidana, General Partner, Foundation Capital

Andrew McAllister, Managing Director, California Center for Sustainable Energy

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Dr. Charles Macal, Senior Systems Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory

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Mark Fischetti, Energy and Environment Editor, Scientific American

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Mark Thurber, Associate Director for Research, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford

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Jay Apt, Professor of Technology, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

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David Crane, President and CEO, NRG Energy

• Sudamsh Bai-Reddy, McCombs School of Business See PDF slides in a new window
• Benjamin Sigrin, Energy and Earth Resources and LBJ School of Public Affairs See PDF slides in a new window
• Dave Tuttle, Electrical and Computer Engineering See PDF slides in a new window
• Dan Weisberg, Pecan Street Inc. See PDF slides in a new window

Amy Jaffe, Fellow in Energy Studies and Director of the Energy Forum, Baker Institute, Rice University

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Roger Duncan, Research Analyst, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy

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Dr. Raymond L Orbach, Director, Energy Institute, UT Austin

Richard Morse, Director, Coal and CCS research, Program on Energy, Stanford University

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Armond Cohen, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force

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Gevorg Sargsyan, Program Coordinator, Climate Investment Funds, World Bank

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C.K. Woo, Senior Partner, Energy+Environmental Economics

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David J. Porter, Texas Railroad Commissioner

Marianne Kah, Chief Economist, ConocoPhillips

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Dr. Ryne Rafaelle, Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Brewster McCracken, Executive Director, Pecan Street Project

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Jay Zarnikau, Adjunct Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs and President, Frontier Associates

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Dr. Carey King, Research Fellow, CIEEP, UT Austin

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