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Michael Brune, Sierra Club

Michael Brune is the recently appointed executive director of the Sierra Club, previous executive director of the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and a founding board member of Oil Change International, an organization dedicated to dissolving the political barriers to a clean energy transition. Under Brune’s leadership, RAN has successfully campaigned to change the environmental policies and practices of some of America’s largest corporations, including Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kinko’s, Boise, Lowe’s and others. Brune's critically acclaimed book, Coming Clean -- Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal, published by Sierra Club Books in 2008, details a plan for a new green economy that will create well-paying jobs, promote environmental justice and bolster national security. Mr. Brune holds degrees in Economics and Finance from West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

Richard Caperton, Center for American Progress Richard W. Caperton is a Policy Analyst with the Energy Opportunity team at American Progress. He works on several issues related to the transition to a clean energy economy, including renewable energy finance and investment in energy infrastructure. Prior to joining American Progress, Richard was a policy fellow at the Alliance for Climate Protection and worked in government relations at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Mr. Caperton is a native of rural America, growing up in Virginia and Missouri. He received his M.B.A. from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and a B.A. in politics from Pomona College.

Bernard Chabot, Consultant and Trainer on Renewable Energy

Bernard Chabot is an engineer from ENSAM School of Engineers in France, and an energy economist. Since 2008 he has worked as a consultant and trainer on renewable energy and sustainable development. Mr. Chabot is the developer of the innovative “Profitability Index Method” designed for defining feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewable sources. Mr. Chabot worked for 17 years as a senior Expert on Renewable Energy at ADEME (French Agency for Environment and Energy Management), and was head of the ADEME Renewable Energy Department. Mr. Chabot has authored several scientific papers on renewable energy, economic analysis and market regulations for sustainable energy technologies and applications.

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Rory Cox, Pacific Environment

Rory Cox is California Program Director at Pacific Environment. He leads Pacific Environment's campaign, "Keep California's Clean Energy Promise." The campaign's top priority is to reduce fossil fuel use in California's energy grid by advocating for distributed generation renewables while opposing over-procurement of fossil fuel power. This includes the building of unnecessary power plants and imports of Liquefied Natural Gas. Rory edited the 2009 report, “Green Opportunity: How California Can Reduce Power Plant Emissions, Protect the Marine Environment, and Save Money” about replacing aging natural gas power plants with renewable generation, and co-wrote the 2008 report “Collision Course: How Imported LNG Will Undermine Clean Energy in California.” Rory has worked with communities in California and Oregon to stop the development of LNG import terminals, and is currently active at the CPUC making the economic and environmental case for distributed generation. He has a master’s degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University.

Hans-Josef Fell, German Green Party

Hans-josef Fell is the Spokesman on energy policy for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag. From 1999 to 2005, as spokesman Bundestag’s research committee, he helped to ensure an increase in funding for research into photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, geothermal energy, etc. Mr. Fell wrote the draft Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), the foundation for the technological developments in photovoltaics, biogas, wind power and geothermal energy in Germany, which was adopted in 2000 in the face of strong political opposition. Mr. Fell was the recipient of the 2006 Bonda Prize of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPI), and the Solar prize of the German section of the International Solar Energy Society (DGS) in 2000.

Hilary Flynn, Meister Consultants

Hilary Flynn is a Project Consultant at MCG focusing on sustainable energy policy analysis and development, market assessments, and system dynamics. She has advised electric utilities, government agencies, product manufacturers, engineering firms, non-profit organizations and financial institutions on renewable energy and emissions markets, energy and climate policy, and business strategy. Previous work experience includes positions with PHOTON Consulting, MJ Bradley & Associates, and Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development. Ms. Flynn has been a speaker on a range of climate and energy topics at events in the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America, and has published her work in peer-reviewed journals and trade magazines. Ms. Flynn earned an MS from Washington State University where she used computer simulation ! odelling to analyze energy policy, and has a BS from Rutgers University.


Janet Gagnon, SolarWorld

At SolarWorld, Janet Gagnon heads government relations and lobbying efforts on federal, state and local levels. Ms. Gagnon serves on the Board of Directors for the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Solar Alliance, CalSEIA, CoSEIA, and NYSEIA. In addition, SolarWorld is an active member of several additional state chapters of SEIA as well as several local business associations. Ms. Gagnon serves as Chair of the labor committee for national SEIA and Vice Chair of the public policy subcommittee for SEMI. Ms. Gagnon received her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and her Bachelors of Science Business Administration degree from California State University, Northridge.

Angelina Galiteva – Renewable Energy 100

Angelina M. Galiteva currently serves as a Chairperson of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and she is also a Principal of New Energy Options, Inc. (NEOptions) and ATG Energy. In addition, Ms. Galiteva is a founding member of Renewable Energy 100, a non profit dedicated to advancing the 100% Renewable Energy Solution for the energy and transportation sectors. Ms. Galiteva specializes in formalizing strategic direction for renewable energy and overall sustainable policy programs for public and private entities. Ms Galiteva has also served as the Executive Director-Strategic Planning, for the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). In that capacity she was responsible for structuring and managing the Departments’ internationally acclaimed “Green LA” Environmental and Green Energy portfolio programs. Ms. Galiteva, is an attorney with a JD and Masters’ of Law Degrees in International, Environmental and Energy Law.

John Geesman, ACORE

John Geesman is the co-Chair of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), and the originator of the provocative blog, GreenEnergyWar.com. Mr. Geesman has been a prime mover in California's energy policy for the past 30 years, most recently as a California Energy Commissioner from 2002 to 2008. His first service in government was as Executive Director of the California Energy Commission from 1979 to 1983, where aggressive implementation of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act created the first model for feed-in tariffs. He was the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange during the tumultuous electricity market restructuring in the late 1990s, and also served on the Board of the California Independent System Operator. An attorney by training, he worked as an investment banker in the bond markets for nearly 20 years.

Paul Gipe, Alliance for Renewable Energy

Paul Gipe has written extensively about renewable energy for both the popular and trade press. His most recent book, Wind Energy Basics: A Guide to Home- and Community-scale Wind Energy Systems is available from Chelsea Green Publishing. In 2004, Mr. Gipe launched a campaign to bring electricity feed laws back to North America. The campaign has grown into a continent-wide grassroots movement that has put renewable energy feed-in tariffs on the political agenda in Canada and the US.


Jen Gleason, Environmental Law Alliance

Jennifer Gleason is a Staff Attorney for the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW). Ms. Gleason manages ELAW's Legal Assistance Program and collaborates with lawyers around the world to strengthen and enforce laws that protect the environment and human rights. Her current focus is helping to challenge global warming by promoting laws that encourage the production of electricity from renewable sources, while challenging projects that produce harmful greenhouse gases. She has been studying and promoting feed-in tariffs for several years and has been involved in local efforts to get a FIT adopted in Oregon. Jennifer is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, where she teaches Energy and the Law.

Pegeen Hanrahan, P.E., Former Mayor of Gainesville, FL

Pegeen Hanrahan recently completed her twelfth year of elective service, and her second term as Gainesville's Mayor. She is a registered Professional Engineer, and a consultant to the Trust for Public Land's Conservation Finance Program. In this capacity, she helps other local governments develop and fund land conservation and recreational programs in Florida. She is currently lecturing for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund on the implementation of Gainesville’s Solar Feed-in-Tariff. Mayor Hanrahan has over twenty years of experience in environmental remediation, public participation, grant writing, land conservation, and local government finance. She holds Master's (1992) and Bachelor's (1989) degrees from the University of Florida in Environmental Engineering, and a B.A. in Sociology (1989), also from U.F.

Mike Layton, Green Energy Act Alliance, and Environmental Defence Canada

Mike Layton is Deputy Outreach Director at Environmental Defence Canada, a national environmental charity that fights to protect environmental and human health from exposure to toxic chemicals and to reduce Canada’s contributions to climate change. Through his role, he has coordinated the Green Energy Act Alliance, a coalition of environmental groups, industry associations, farmers and labor unions, to promote renewable energy and conservation in Ontario. This work resulted in passage of the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, legislation that forms the basis for North American’s firm comprehensive feed-in tariff for renewable energy. Mike is a graduate of the University of Toronto and York University with a Bachelors degree in political science and environmental management and a Masters in Environmental Studies specializing in urban planning.

Craig Lewis, Right Cycle, and FiT Coalition

Craig Lewis is a leading renewable energy strategist and advocate. He is the Founding Principal of the FIT Coalition, which is leading the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) efforts in California, including via a legislative proposal referred to as the Renewable Energy & Economic Stimulus Act (aka REESA FIT). Mr. Lewis is also the Founding Principal of RightCycle, a consultancy that achieves desirable renewable energy outcomes via legislation, regulation, and public funding. Mr. Lewis received his MBA and MSEE from the University of Southern California, and his BSEE from UC Berkeley.


Loretta Lynch, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Loretta Lynch served as a member of the California Public Utilities Commission and, as Commission President, fought against gouging and manipulation by energy sellers during the California energy crisis. Commissioner Lynch led California's efforts to increase community-based energy efficiency programs and renewable sources of electricity production. Ms. Lynch is currently an Executive Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, where she is writing a book on the California energy crisis. Ms. Lynch is a member of the Alliance to Protect Electricity Consumers, a coalition of state regulators, attorneys general and academics who fight against further federalization of energy markets. Prior to her PUC appointment, Ms. Lynch was the director of Governor Davis' Office of Planning and Research. Ms. Lynch was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California in 2000 and 2001 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Ms. Lynch holds a law degree from Yale University. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California.

Ryan Matulka, UCLA School of Public Policy

Ryan Matulka is a Research Project Manager at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation. He recently completed a study commissioned by the L.A. Business Council, “Assessing the Promise of a Solar Feed-in Tariff Policy for Greater Los Angeles,” in order to provide regional policy makers with a useful guide to designing an effective Solar Feed-in Tariff program for the region. Mr. Matulka holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning from the UCLA School of Public Affairs.

Nils Mellquist, Deutsche Bank, DB Climate Change Advisors

Nils Mellquist is a Vice President at Deutsche Asset Management and Senior Research Analyst on the DBCCA investment research team, based in New York. Mr. Mellquist leads many of the strategic and research efforts for the team in the energy sector. Mr. Mellquist conducted global thematic research on the investment implications of climate change in AllianceBernstein’s Research on Strategic Change unit and was the lead author and analyst on a comprehensive 125 page study: “Abating Climate Change: What Will be Done and the Consequences for Investors.” Mr. Mellquist graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in History, and is a FINRA registered supervisory analyst and principal.

Bill Powers, Powers Engineering

Bill Powers, P.E., is an expert on regional power provision. He is the author of San Diego Smart Energy 2020, an influential report which emphasizes the potential of wholesale distributed generation. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the fields of renewable energy and fossil fuel-fired power generation systems, air emissions monitoring and control equipment, and regional energy planning. He is a member of San Diego Association of Governments’ Regional Energy Working Group and is actively engaged in the California Energy Commission’s Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative process.


Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, Fraunhofer Institute

Gerhard Stryi-Hipp is the Head of Energy Policy and Group Leader of Thermal Collectors and Applications for the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in the area of solar technology. The ISE institute is one of the world-leading research institutes in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Mr. Stryi-Hipp was chairman of the German Solar Industry Association BSW-Solar and its precursors for 15 years. In close contact with policy makers and the ministries, he actively participated in shaping the market development and subsidies policy in the area of solar thermal energy and photovoltaics. As head of the German Solar Thermal Technology Platform DSTTP and chairman of the Heating & Cooling European Technology Platform RHC-ETP, he also promoted research strategies for solar thermal systems.

Eicke Weber, Fraunhofer Institute

Professor Eicke R. Weber is Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Professor for Physics / Solar Energy at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and at the Faculty of Engineering at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. Prof. Weber studied Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany where he earned his doctorate in 1976 and his habilitation in 1983. He is a former faculty member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2004-2006 he served as the chair of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group in Berkeley. He was president of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America (AvHAA) from 2001-2003 and in 2003 he was elected founding president of the German Scholars Organization (GSO). He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society. In July 2008 Prof. Weber was appointed Director to the SEMI International Board of Directors. He received the Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society ECS in June 2009.

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