Jeffrey Byron, of Los Altos, was appointed to the California Energy Commission by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in June 2006. By law, four of the five members of the Energy Commission are required to have professional training in specific areas - engineering or physics, environmental protection, economics, and law. One commissioner is appointed to represent the public-at-large. Byron fills the public-at-large position. He has served as president of Byron Consulting Group, developing strategic energy solutions for mid to large-sized firms since 2002. Before his appointment, Byron was managing, on behalf of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Sustainable Silicon Valley, an energy efficiency program to reduce energy use and carbon emissions among businesses and other organizations within the Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the director of business development for Enerwise Global Technologies from 2001 to 2002 and Calpine C*Power from 2000 to 2001.

Byron was also energy director for the Oracle Corporation from 1996 to 2000 and the founder and chief technical officer for Bright Line Energy from 1995 to 1996. Prior to that, he served at the Electric Power Research Institute from 1985 to 1995 in a variety of capacities, including commercialization director and executive technical advisor. Byron recently served as co-chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Council's Energy Committee and is a former member of the Energy Commission's PIER Electrical Distribution Advisory Committee.

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Ralph Cavanagh co-directs the Energy Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environment-advocacy organization that he joined in 1979. He also serves on the US Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board and the board of E-Source, a Colorado-based energy services company. He has held appointments as a Visiting Professor at the Stanford and Bolt Hall Law Schools, and as a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School. Before arriving at NRDC, Cavanagh was employed by the US Department of Justice as an Attorney Advisor. He is a past member of the Energy Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences and the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute.

Ralph is Vice Chair of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies (CEERT), which unites representatives of the environmental, energy efficiency and renewable energy communities. He is also a founding board member of the Northwest Energy Coalition. His awards include the Heinz Award for Public Policy in 1996 and the Bonneville Power Administration's Award for Exceptional Public Service.

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Steve Chu became Berkeley Lab's sixth Director on August 1, 2004. He is also Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

His distinguished career in laboratory research began as a postdoctoral fellow in physics at the University of California's Berkeley campus from 1976-78, during which time he also utilized the facilities of Berkeley Lab. His first career appointment was as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1978-87. He spent many years there as the Head of the Quantum Electronics Department, during which time he began his groundbreaking work in cooling and trapping atoms by using laser light.

In 1987, he became a professor in the Physics and Applied Physics Departments at Stanford University. His work eventually led to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, an honor he shared with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of France and United States colleague William D. Phillips. Their discoveries, focusing on the so-called "optical tweezers" laser trap, were instrumental in the study of fundamental phenomena and in measuring important physical quantities with unprecedented precision.

Dr. Chu was the Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he remained for 17 years as highly decorated scientist, teacher and administrator. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X, a multi-disciplinary initiative linking the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. He has become active in the energy problem and is co-chairing an international InterAcademy Council (IAC) study, "Transitioning to Sustainable Energy." The IAC represents over 90 national academics of science around the world.

Dr. Mark A. Delucchi is a research scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis and a private consultant, specializing in economic, environmental, engineering, and planning analyses of current and future transportation systems. He is a member of the Alternative Fuels Committee and the Energy Committee of the Transportation Research Board.

Dr. Delucchi's research is in several areas: comprehensive analyses of the full social-costs of transportation; lifecycle analyses of emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants from transportation systems; modeling the lifetime cost and energy use of advanced electric and conventional vehicles; planning suburbs and transportation infrastructure to minimize the negative impacts of transportation; and comprehensive assessments of alternative transportation fuels.

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John Denniston came to KPCB from Salomon Smith Barney, where he was a Managing Director and head of Technology Investment Banking for the Western U.S., and also served on the Investment Committee for Salomon's direct investment venture fund and its venture capital fund-of-funds. Prior to Salomon, John was a Partner with the law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, where he was the head of Brobeck's Venture Capital Practice Group, Co-head of its Information Technology Practice Group and a member of the Investment Committee for its venture capital fund.

Ira is a partner with Technology Partners, a venture capital firm. He has been with Technology Partners since 1996. Ira leads the firm's Cleantech investment practice, investing in Energy Technology, Water Technology, and Materials Science opportunities. Ira is also an active leader at Stanford University, where his contributions have included helping to teach the course on Venture Capital and serving on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. He is a Contributor to Nimmer on Copyright, the leading copyright treatise.

Ira is a recognized leader in both the Cleantech and Venture Capital communities. He is a member of several industry Advisory Boards, including the Cleantech Venture Network (Emeritus), the Clean-Tech Investors Summit (2005, 2006 and 2007 Conference Chairman), the Energy Investors Forum (2004 Conference Chairman), the Energy Venture Fair, the California Climate Change Advisory Board, the Southern California Tech Coast Alliance, the Golden Capital Network, the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), and the Comerica Venture Capital Advisory Board. Ira has been featured as the Keynote speaker at both the Cleantech Venture Forum VI and the Cleantech Venture Forum V, as well as countless other industry events. Ira also serves on the Education Committee of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and on the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). He is the Co-Chairman of both the VCNetwork and the YVCA, two non-profit organizations comprising more than 1,000 venture capitalist s.

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Christopher Flavin is President of the Worldwatch Institute, an international research organization whose focus is an environmentally sustainable future. Worldwatch is recognized for its path-breaking work on the global connections between economic, social, and environmental trends. Flavin is a regular co-author of the Institute's State of the World book, which has been published in 36 languages.

Chris Flavin's research and writing have focused on the development of an environmentally sustainable economy, with a particular focus on energy. He has written extensively on energy strategies and policies, including renewable sources of energy, electricity restructuring, and the potential for hydrogen. He is co-author of three books on energy, including Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution (WW Norton, 1994), in which he describes the potential shape of a post-petroleum energy economy.

As President of Worldwatch, Flavin is the Institute's chief executive officer, serves on its Board of Directors, and represents the organization before a wide range of international audiences. Flavin has helped guide the Institute's development over the past 20 years, serving as Vice President for Research and later as Senior Vice President. He was appointed President in September 2000.

Mr. Flavin is active in international policy circles on climate change and energy, and has participated in several historic international conferences, including the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Climate Change Conference in Kyoto Japan in 1997. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems as well as the Boards of Directors of the Climate Institute and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Flavin lectures before business, university, and policy audiences, testifies before national legislatures, and meets with the leaders of governments, international agencies, and companies.

Chris Flavin appears regularly on radio and television, including the BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS's Newshour, and Voice of America. He has also written for a wide range of popular and scholarly periodicals, including The New York Times, Technology Review, The Harvard International Review, and Time Magazine. Flavin is a native of Monterey California and a cum laude graduate of Williams College, where he studied economics, biology, and environmental studies.

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Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to seven hundred other newspapers worldwide.

Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), which won both the National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly twelve months. From Beirut to Jerusalem has been published in more than twenty-seven languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree (FSG, 1999), one of the best selling business books in 1999, and the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. It is now available in twenty languages. His last book, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued by FSG in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11 as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Sa udi Arabia. In 2005, The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.

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Jeff is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, where he examines the danger behind President George W. Bush's recent assertion that coal is America's "economic destiny." He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith, based on the terrifying hours nine Quecreek miners spent trapped underground; he appeared on Oprah to talk with the miners about their experience. Goodell's first book, The Cyberthief and the Samurai, was about the hunt for the notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. His memoir, Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family, was a New York Times Notable Book.

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David Gottfried has over two decades of multidisciplinary real estate, consulting and non-profit organizational experience in the building industry: as a real estate developer, construction manager, green management consultant, founder of the U.S. and World Green Building Councils, global keynote speaker and author.

Gottfried is the President of WorldBuild Technologies Inc., founded in 1994. The firm works exclusively with organizational clients that strive to lessen their reliance on limited natural resources and wasteful practices, while boosting lifecycle based economics and quality of life. The firm's focus commenced with the "greening" of building projects and portfolios of projects, and has expanded to helping enhance the sustainability of companies and their respective product and service offerings -- to meet the rapidly growing global "green" marketplace.

WorldBuild has served as the sustainable development consultant for many of the leading and award winning sustainable organizations and projects in the United States. Representative public sector clients include: the State of California, the City of Santa Monica, the City of San Diego, the U.S. Navy, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Montana State University, DeAnza-Foothill Community College District, the College of Marin, LA Unified School System, Alameda County Waste Management Authority, EPRI and the U.S. Green Building Council. WorldBuild's private sector clients include: Starbucks, Williams-Sonoma, DreamWorks, Genentech, Yahoo, SOM Architects, UTC Power, Carrier Corporation, Johnson Controls, San Diego Gas & Electric, Bart, Intracorp and Chipotle.

Mr. Gottfried is the founder, and was the first staff president of the U.S. Green Building Council. USGBC is the foremost green building organization in the world, now with approximately 7600 organizational members from all sectors of the building industry, and 70 regional chapters. Mr. Gottfried is also the founder of the World Green Building Council, with councils being developed in over a dozen countries, including India, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, UAE, England, Taiwan and China.

Mr. Gottfried previously held executive level positions in several real estate development and construction management organizations. These real estate companies specialized in the development, construction and property management of commercial and multifamily residential property in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. Gottfried has worked on projects totaling several million square feet.

Gottfried received his degree in Engineering and Resource Management from Stanford University, and is a regular lecturer for Stanford's Civil Engineering Department. He has published dozens of articles and conducted hundreds of keynote speeches worldwide. Gottfried is the recipient of the Environmental Enterprise Award from Acterra Business Environmental Network, and the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the San Francisco Institute of Architects. He was named one of the top 25 industry newsmakers for 2005 by McGraw-Hill's ENR Magazine. He was honored as a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, and is the founding Chairman of ASTM's Green Building Committee. Gottfried was the Managing Editor of the U.S. DOE and EPA funded Sustainable Building Technical Manual. He is the author of Greed to Green: the transformation of an industry and a life, published in 2004.

Eric Heitz is the President of The Energy Foundation, a private foundation with a mission to promote clean energy technology-especially energy efficiency and renewable energy-in the U.S. and China. Mr. Heitz co-founded The Energy Foundation in January, 1991, and was a Program Officer and Executive Vice President, heading all domestic programs, before he became President.

Prior to The Energy Foundation, Mr. Heitz worked as an Agency for International Development energy consultant, advancing renewable energy in Egypt, and for the City of Palo Alto municipal utility, advancing efficiency and load management programs for commercial customers. Mr. Heitz has also sold and installed solar systems. Mr. Heitz has a BS in Energy and Environmental Planning and an MS degree in Civil Engineering, specializing in energy planning. Both degrees are from Stanford University.

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John L. Hennessy joined Stanford's faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004. From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer Systems Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering. As dean, he launched a five-year plan that laid the groundwork for new activities in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. In 1999, he was named provost, the university's chief academic and financial officer. As provost, he continued his efforts to foster interdisciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw improvements in faculty and staff compensation. In October 2000, he was inaugurated as Stanford University's 10th president. In 2005, he became the inaugural holder of the Bing Presidential Professorship.

Dr. Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the 2001 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering and a 2005 hly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering and a 2005 hly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering and a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Donald Kennedy is president emeritus of Stanford University, the Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, emeritus, and an FSI senior fellow by courtesy. He is also the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research focuses on policy regarding trans-boundary environmental problems such as major land-use changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies. Kennedy joined the Stanford faculty in 1960 and was president of the university from 1980 to 1992. He was commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1977 to 1979. Previously at Stanford, he was director of the Program in Human Biology (1973-1977), and chair of the Department of Biology (1964-1972).

Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and as a founding director of the Health Effects Institute. He currently serves as a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as co-chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law. He received AB and PhD degrees in biology from Harvard University.

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Jonathan Livingston manages the Emerging Technologies (ET) program for the Customer Energy Efficiency Department at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Jonathan has more than 20 years' experience in innovation management, including research, assessment, commercialization, and deployment of energy efficient technologies and renewable and fossil-fueled generation systems. He leads PG&E's team of ET portfolio managers, and represents PG&E on the California Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council.

Jonathan is widely recognized for his role as board member or advisor to technology commercialization organizations including the Environmental Business Cluster, Food Service Technology Center, California Lighting Technology Center, Center for the Built Environment, National Fenestration Rating Council, California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research, E Source, and Electric Power Research Institute.

In 1995 Jonathan was awarded the Asia Foundation fellowship to assist the Ceylon Electricity Board (Colombo, Sri Lanka) in establishing their energy conservation department. In 2004 he organized the first Emerging Technologies in Energy Efficiency Summit, co-sponsored by the California investor-owned utilities, the California Energy Commission, and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. In 2006 he created the California Investor-owned Utilities Energy Efficiency award for California Clean Tech Open competition, where he served as judge and advisor.

Jonathan is a Professional Engineer in Mechanical Engineering, and holds a BA in Psycholinguistics from Yale and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford.

Ellen Pao is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, a well-known venture capital firm. She joined the firm in 2005. Prior to Kleiner Perkins, Ellen held various operating roles at BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise infrastructure software. At BEA, she was head of business development for products, site manager for new mobile products, and lead for new engineering efforts in India. She also served in corporate development, leading strategic projects for the CEO and merging & acquisition transactions. Prior to BEA, Ellen focused on business development and closed technology licensing deals for Tellme Networks and Microsoft's WebTV division. She also served as a consultant at MyCFO and at Danger Research, where she headed the Sidekick's first marketing requirements efforts.

Before entering the tech field, Ellen was a corporate attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in both its New York City and Hong Kong offices, working on deals across the Philippines, Singapore and Greater China. She provided guidance on high-yield debt offerings, M&A transactions, aircraft financings, and pro bono projects for Habitat for Humanity and Covenant House. Ellen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a certificate from the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Burton Richter was born in 1931 in New York. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952 and 1956, respectively. He began as a post doc at Stanford University in 1956, became a professor in 1967, and director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1984. His research has centered on experimental particle physics with high energy electrons and electron-positron colliding beams. He has been a pioneer in colliding beam technology. At Stanford, he has been a member of the Academic Senate, the Graduate Study Committee, and is a member of the University Cabinet.

Richter received the Nobel Prize in Physics (1976) and the E. O. Lawrence Medal of the Department of Energy (1976). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the European Physical Society; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of The American Physical Society and is currently President of the APS. He is or has been a member of advisory committees to the U.S. Department of Energy (high energy physics and fusion), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and to the European laboratories CERN, DESY, and the Max Planck Institute in Munich. He has been chairman of the U.S. Accelerator School Steering Committee. He is a member of the Director's Council of the Scripp's Institution of Oceanography.

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Erik joined Mohn Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm, in 1998 and leads investments in energy, materials and software companies. Prior to MDV Erik worked at Interval Research Corp., a technology incubator funded by Paul Allen, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member. He also consulted to several seed and early stage venture capital firms. While pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford, Erik led an interdisciplinary project between the electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering departments to develop a next-generation monitoring system for critical facilities. He holds a U.S. patent from his research work. From 1996 to 1998, he served as president of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students (BASES), Stanford's largest student group focused on entrepreneurship and technology management.

Erik serves on the advisory council of the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, as well as on the advisory boards of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), NVCA Cleantech Council, and Cleantech Venture Network. He is a winner of the 2006 World Technology Award for Finance, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Dow Chemical, Cisco, TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, Science magazine/AAAS, Red Herrring, and CNN.

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Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist.

He joined the magazine's staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992. Two years later, he opened its first bureau in that region in Mexico City. He wrote about political, financial and cultural developments in that part of the world until 1997, when he returned to the editorial headquarters in London. As the newspaper's Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. His portfolio now encompasses pharmaceuticals, global health, biotechnology and innovation.

Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the selection committee for CFR's Arthur Ross Book Award. He lectures at NYU's Stern School of Business and his commentaries appear regularly on NPR and Marketplace radio, in the Wall Street Journal and in other media outlets.

He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" (www.vijaytothepeople.com). Harvard's John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it "by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available." His new book, "ZOOM: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future", will be published in autumn 2007.

Vijay's writings have won various prizes in America and abroad. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lives in New York.

David Victor is Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems. Much of the Program's research concentrates in Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. He teaches energy law and regulation at Stanford Law School.

Previously, Dr. Victor directed the Science and Technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he remains Adjunct Senior Fellow and Director of the Council's task force on energy. At the Council his research focused on the sources of technological innovation and the impact of innovation on economic growth. His research also examined global forest policy, global warming, and genetic engineering of food crops. He has a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Political Science and International Relations), and a B.A. from Harvard University (History and Science).

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Steve Westwell was appointed Group Vice President of BP Alternative Energy effective December 1st 2005. In this role, Mr. Westwell manages all BP's activities in low and zero carbon power generation which includes BP's activities in Solar, Wind, Hydrogen Power and Gas Power. BP Alternative Energy has major offices in London, Madrid, Houston, Frederick (Maryland) and Singapore. BP Solar has four primary manufacturing plants in Frederick, Madrid, Sydney and Bangalore. Alternative Energy has sales in excess of $1 billion p.a. and employs over 2500 people.

Mr. Westwell had four years in the power generation industry before joining the BP group in 1988. Within BP he has served in a variety of roles including Refining, Supply, Strategic Planning, Planning and Control and especially Retail Marketing. His career has included postings in Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Mr. Westwell holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Natal, a Master's of Business Administration degree from University of Cape Town and a Master of Science Degree in Management from Stanford University.

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Weyant came to Stanford in 1977, primarily to help develop the Energy Modeling Forum. Prof. Weyant was formerly a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Operations Research, a member of the Stanford International Energy Project and a Fellow in the U.S.-Northeast Asia Forum on International Policy. He is currently an adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

His current research is focused on global climate change, energy security, corporate strategy analysis, and Japanese energy policy. He is on the editorial boards of The Energy Journal, and Petroleum Management. His national society memberships include the American Economics Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Econometric Society, International Association of Energy Economists, Mathematical Programming Society, ORSA, and TIMS.

R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice President and officer in the firm's Global Resilience practice, located in McLean, Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

During his 12 years of government service Mr. Woolsey was: Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-1973. He was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983-1986. As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969-1970.

Mr. Woolsey is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. Previously, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University, The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, and the Aerospace Corporation. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999-2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985-1986; and The President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983.

Mr. Woolsey is presently a managing director of the Homeland Security Fund of Paladin Capital Group. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC, and as a member of VantagePoint Management, Inc.'s Cleantech Advisory Council. He has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of other publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; Yurie Systems, Inc.; and USF&G. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963-1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal).

Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin.