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Martha Amram
CEO
Ennovationz (formerly HomeZ)
Allison Archambault
Principal/Renewable Energy Partners Program Director
Fresh Generation
Jennifer Archibeque
Media Relations Officer for the Western Hemisphere
U.S. State Department
David Arfin
VP Strategy
SolarCity
Roger Arnold
Director
Silverthorn Institute
Eyal Aronoff
Member Set America Free
Set America Free
Robert H. Austin
Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Julie Badeaux
Legislative Assistant
Office of Congresswoman Diane Watson
Paul Baer
Co-Director,
Eco-Equity
Michael Bagley
Government Affairs
Synthetic Genomics
Charles C. Baker
Editor,
Fusion Engineering & Design
Elizabeth Balkan
Independent Energy Consultant
Creator, New Energy and Environment Digest
Joseph Ball
Senior Energy Consultant
Itron
Alexander Bashian
Energy Consultant
WHL Consulting
Gavi Begtrup
MRS/OSA Congressional Science Fellow at United States House of Representatives
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Bronwyn Beistle
Outreach and Logistics Director
Carrots and Sticks
Mathias Bell
Specialist,
Rocky Mountain Institute
Gwynn Benner
Program Manager,
Energy Efficiency Center & Program for International Energy Technologies, University of California, Davis
Matt Bennett
Vice President for Public Affairs
Third Way
Peter Bluford
Principal,
21C4 BioEnergy
Lionel Bony
Director,
Rocky Mountain Institute
David Bradish
Manager, Energy Information
Nuclear Energy Institute
Paul Breslow, Ph.D
Project Development Manager
Suntech
Geoff Bromaghim
Government Affairs Coordinator
National Hydrogen Association
Marilyn A. Brown
Professor of Public Policy,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Scott Browne
Senior Analyst
GreenOrder
Mark S. Brownstein
Managing Director,
Environmental Defense Fund
Cynthia Bryant
Global Business Development Manager - Biomass,
Novozymes
Pierre Bull
Energy Policy Analyst
Natural Resources Defense Council
Joseph Caggiano
Senior Consultant
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Kateri Callahan
President,
Alliance to Save Energy
Jesse Calzado
Energy Staffer
Office of Congressman Bobby Rush
E. Michael Campbell
Director, Energy Division,
Logo Technology
Paige Carratturo
Principal, Energy Technology
Enertech Search Partners
Alexandra Carrick
Commissioning Editor, Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Rick Carter
Vice President, Federal Government Relations
National Grid USA
Robert Catell
Chairman
National Grid, U.S.
Warren B. Causey
Vice President
Sierra Energy Group, a division of Energy Central
Stefan Ceulemans
Energy Improvement Lead
Exxon Mobile
Adam Christensen
2010 ASME Congressional Fellow
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship Program
Jaquelin Cochran
Assistant Professor, Energy
KIMEP
Thomas B. Cochran
Senior Scientist
Natural Resources Defense Council
Barry Cohen
Executive Director
National Algae Association
Bernard L. Cohen
Professor
Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, and of Environmental and Occupational Health University of Pittsburgh
Bennett R Cohen
Special Aide to Amory Lovins
Rocky Mountain Institute
Avery Cohn
Ph.D. Candidate
UC Berkeley | Env. Sci., Policy, & Mgmt.
Daniel R. Cohn
Senior Research Scientist
MIT
Michael Colvin
Policy Analyst
California Public Utilities Commission, Policy and Planning Division
Anne Cooper
Professional Staff, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Committee on Science and Technology
Marcie Cooperman
Staff Assistant
Committee on Natural Resources
Leslie Black Cordes
Director, Partnership Development - Energy and Climate
United Nations Foundation
Kurt Creamer
Connectivity Manager
Novozymes North America
Felix Creutzig
Postdoctoral Fellow, Transportation Efficiency
UC Berkeley Institute of the Environment
Tom Curry
Policy Analyst
MJ Bradley and Associates
Jill P. Dahlburg
Space Science Division Superintendent
Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Bruce Dale
Univ. Distinguished Professor
Michigan St. Univ. Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Vinod Dar
Managing Director
Dar & Company
John Darnell
Energy and Environment Advisor at U.S. House of Representatives
Office of Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett
Pradip K. Das
New Technology Business Applications Director
Monsanto Co.
Steven Davey
Chief Operating Officer
Zymetis Biofuels
Chris Davis
Director
Codexis Bioindustrials
Dr. Stephen O. Dean
President
Fusion Power Associates
Scott Desilva
Global Account Manager/Renewable Energy Specialist
Gexpro
David J. Diamond
Division Head
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Francis J. DiSalvo
John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science
Cornell University
Gregory Dolan
Vice President
Methanol Institute
Adam Duke
President
Go Green Energy Consulting
Jesse Engel
Graduate Student Researcher (Ph.D)
UC Berkeley Materials Science and Engineering
Jeremy Ershow
Policy Advisor
Third Way
Kenny Esser
Senior Associate
Gabel Associates
Harold A. Feiveson
Senior Research Scientist
Princeton University
Richard T. Foltin
Director of National and Legislative Affairs
American Jewish Committee
Mario Fontana
Research Professor
Nuclear Engineering Department, Univ. of Tenn
Kate Foreman
PhD student
Agricultural and Resource Economics UC Berkeley
Joshua Freed
Senior Policy Advisor
Third Way
Barry Friedman
Senior Analyst
National Renewable Energy Lab
Andrew Friendly
Principal
Advanced Technology Ventures
Claus Crone Fuglsang
Senior Director, BioEnergy R&D
Novozymes
Karl Gee
Senior Energy Efficiency Specialist
Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions Inc
Brad Gentry
Co-Director,
Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Henry M. Goldberg
Consultant
Energy Markets and Policy
Peter Goldmark
Director, Climate and Air
Environmental Defense Fund
Dave Goldstein
President
Electric Vehicle Association/D.C.
Neil B. Goldstein
Executive Vice President
Energy Alternatives for the 21st Century
Kate Gordon
Senior Policy Advisor
Apollo Alliance
Thomas O. Gray
Director of Communications
American Wind Energy Association
Ron Gremban
Technical Lead
California Cars Initiative (calcars.org)
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
PhD Student, Energy Policy
UC Berkeley
Ashok Gupta
Program Director,
Air & Energy, NRDC
Neal Gutterson
President & CEO
Mendel Biotechnology
Jamie Hall
Policy Director
CALSTART
David Hammer
Professor, Nuclear Energy Engineering
Cornell University
Robert Hahn
Senior Fellow, Georgetown Center for Business & Public Policy and Senior Visiting Fellow, Smith School, Oxford
Georgetown University / Oxford
Hal Harvey
CEO
ClimateWorks Foundation
Richard D. Hazeltine
Director, Institute for Fusion Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Bracken Hendricks
Senior Fellow, Climate Change and Energy Independence
Center for American Progress
Gary A. Herwick
President
Transportation Fuels Consulting Inc.
Howard J Herzog
Principal Research Engineer
MIT
Adrian Heymer
Senior Director, New Plant Deployment
Nuclear Energy Institute
John B. Heywood
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
M.I.T.
Jack Hidary
Founder
The Hidary Foundation
Rick Hill
Project Director/Senior Consultant
ERIN Engineering and Research, Inc.
Elias Hinckley
Partner
Venable LLP
Stephen A. Holditch
Professor and Department Head
Petroleum Engineering Texas A&M University
Marcos Huerta
Legislative Fellow
Congressman Raul M. Grijalva
Peter R. Huessy
Senior Defense Consultant, NDUF
National Defense University Foundation
Laurel Hunt
Intern
Select Committee on energy Independence & Global Warming
Suzanne Hunt
President
HuntGreen LLC
Andrew J. Hunter
Lecturer, Chemical Engineering
Cornell University
Debra Jacobson
Professorial Lecturer in Energy Law
The George Washington Univ. Law School
Ryan Jarmula
Legislative Aide in Energy
Congressman Mike Pence
Andrew Jones
Graduate Student, Energy Policy
UC Berkley
Christopher M. Jones
Staff Research Associate
Berkeley Institute of the Environment, UC Berkeley
Peter Judge
Legislative Assistant and WRDA Coordinator
Congressman Bill Foster
Fred C Julander
President
Julander Energy Company
Victoria Junquera
Manager, Science and Technology
Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels
Evan Juska
Senior Policy Manager
The Climate Group
Daniel Kammen
Distinguished Professor of Energy
University of California, Berkeley
Stan Kaplan
Specialist in Energy & Environmental Policy
Congressional Research Service
Melanie A. Kenderdine
Associate Director for Strategic Planning
MIT Energy Initiative
Earl Killian
Plug In America
Thomas Kimbis
Executive Director
The Solar Foundation
Chris King
Staff Director
Subcommittee on Energy & Environment
Rich Kolodziej
President
NGVAmerica
Anne Korin
Co-Director
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Joel Kotkin
Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures
Chapman University
Felix Kramer
Founder
The California Cars Initiative (calcars.org)
Robert W. Kupp
Nuclear Engineer - Retired
Prior - Stoller Corp, and Dames & Moore
Karina Lassiter
Policy Advisor
Congressman Brian Baird
Jane Leggett
Specialist in Environmental and Energy Policy Resources
Congressional Research Service
Yu Lei
UC Berkeley Institute of the Environment

Derek Lemoine
Ph.D. Candidate
Energy and Resources Group UC Berkeley
Joy M. Leong
Founder
E-Drive.org
Pamela G. Lesh
President
Graceful Systems LLC
Milton Levenson
Retired, Former Associate Director
Argonne National Lab
Nathan S. Lewis
Professor
California Institute of Technology
Jack Lifton
CEO
Jack Lifton LLC
Burl Grant Logan
Director, Heavy Ion Fusion Science VNL
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeffrey Logan
Senior Energy Analyst
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Lourdes Long
Policy Analyst
National Commission on Energy Policy
Deron Lovaas
Federal Transportation Policy Director
Natural Resources Defense Council
Jay Lucey
Senior Legislative Assistant
Representative Jim McGovern
Cindy L. Ludwig
Tour Program Manager
Monsanto
Gal Luft
Executive Director
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Susan Lyon
Of Counsel/Privacy Attorney
Perkins Coie LLP
Stephanie Maddin
Legislative Assistant in Energy
Congressman Keith Ellison
Wallace Manheimer
Retired from the Naval Research Laboratory Consultant to NRL through various companies
Dawn Manley
Manager, Systems Research & Analysis
Sandia National Laboratories
David J. Manning
Executive Vice President
National Grid
Michael Edward Mauel
Professor of Applied Physics
Columbia University
Matthew McCaffree
Manager of Electric Efficiency
The Institute for Electric Efficiency
Hugh McDermott
Vice President
Global Utilities & Energy at Better Place
Casey Miller
Legislative Assistant
Office of Congresswoman Fudge
Ken Miller
Clean Energy Program Director
Snake River Alliance
Dan Milstein
Presidential Management Fellow
U.S. Department of Energy
Ernest J. Moniz
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
MIT
Ted Monoson
Director of Legislative Affairs
Growth Energy
Jessica Morey
Project Director
Clean Energy Group
Danielle Murray
Renewable Energy Program Manager
City and County of San Francisco
Leonel E. Nava
Energy and Technology Consultant
IHRDC
Glenn Nedwin
Executive Vice President
Genencor - a Danisco Division
Chris Nelder
Journalist
www.getreallist.com
Michelle Nguyen
Congressional Intern
House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Nick Nigro
Solutions Fellow
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Megan O'Donnell
Legislative Assistant
Congressman Harold Rogers
Felix Oduyemi
Manager
Southern California Edison
Clem Palevich
Advisor: Energy & Sustainability
Independent
Dr. Bharat Patel, P.E.
Principal/CEO
BP Energy & Environmental Consultants, LLC.
Tadeusz W. Patzek
Professor/Chairman
UT Austin
Dr. Stephen Paul
Principal
Trenton Fuel Works LLC
Shelby Perkins
Consultant, Energy Law and Policy

Kent F. Perry
Director Research , Unconventional Gas
Gas Technology Institute
Dr. H. Christopher Peterson
Director, Product Center & Nowlin Chair of Consumer-Responsive Agriculture
Michigan State University
David Pimentel
Professor, Ecology; Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Richard Plevin
PhD candidate
Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Todd Polanowicz
Operations Program Manager, Cellulosic Biomass to Ethanol
Mascoma Corporation
Catherine Potter

GreenOrder
Brendan Prebo
Manager
THINK North America
Mike Ramos
Congressional Staffer in Energy
Office of Congressman Hare
Robert Rapier
Chief Technology Officer
Merica International, LLC
Tracy Rascoe
Director, Wind Energy Technology
Northwest Renewable Energy Institute
Sam Ricketts
Executive Director
Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition
Randy Rieland
President
Rieland Digital
Douglas B. Rivers
Director of Research and Development
ICM, Inc.
Susan Rochford
Vice President, Energy & Sustainability Initiatives
Council on Competitiveness
Theodore Rockwell
Nuclear Engr/Author
Self
Charlotte Diane Rollier
State Environmental Coordinator/Civil Engineer
USDA Rural Development, Oregon State Office
Peter Rose
Geothermal Program Coordinator and Research Professor
Energy and Geoscience Institute and Department of Civil Engineering, University of Utah
Albert David Rossin
President
Rossin and Associates
Norman Rostoker
Chief Strategist
TriAlpha Energy, Inc.
Tricia Russell
Senior Legislative Assistant
Congressman Steve Israel
Thomas R. Schneider
Principal Analyst - Strategic Energy Analysis
NREL
Peter V. Schwartz
Associate Professor of Physics
Cal Poly Physics, San Luis Obispo
Paul Scott
VP - Plug In America;
President - Electric Vehicle Assoc. of Southern California Plug In America;
SolarCity
Ruth Scotti
US Biofuels Regulatory Affairs Manager
BP Biofuels
Nathan Sermonis
Legislative Assistant
Congressman Massa
John Sethian
Senior Scientist
Naval Research Laboratory
Saurin Shah
SVP/Senior Equity Analyst
Neuberger Berman
Jeramy Shays
Policy Associate
ACORE
John Sheffield
Senior Fellow
Institute for Secure and Sustainable Environment University of Tennessee Knoxville
Kyle Simpson
Policy Director, Energy & Environment
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Collin Siu
Legislative Fellow
Congressman Al Green
Rick Smead
Director, Natural Gas
Navigant Consulting.Inc.
Stephen F. Smith
Vice President Manufacturing /
Operations
Enerpulse, Inc.
Robert Socolow
Professor
Princeton University
Herschel Specter
President
RBR Consultants, Inc.
Priya Sreedharan
AAAS Fellow
US Environmental Protection Division
Cai Steger
Energy Policy Analyst
Natural Resources Defense Council
Ronald E. Stoltz
Manager, Energy Innovation Initiative
Sandia National Laboratories
Jeffrey Nelson Stottlemyer
Partner
Buffalo Green Power
Mark Stowers
Senior Vice President of Science & Technology
POET
Tom R. Strumolo, MES, EP
Energy Analyst, Environmental Professional
Energy General
Paul Sullivan
Professor of Economics, Adjunct Professor,
SSP NDU/ Georgetown
Ty Swanek
Writer
NEI
Adam Tapley
Managing Director
Climate Lab
Cody Taylor
Energy Engineer and Climate Consultant
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Jefferson Tester
Croll Professor of Sustainable Engineering Systems
Cornell University
Sarah A Teter
Senior Scientist
Novozymes
Steven R. Thomas
Director of Bioproducts
Ceres, Inc.
Paul Thomsen
Director of Policy & Business Development
Ormat Technologies
Shiloh Tilleman-Dick
Leg Director
Tendix Development LLC
Daniel B. Turner-Evans
Applied Physics PhD Candidate
California Institute of Technology
Peter Viola
Legislative Correspondent
Congresswoman Jackie Speier
Brian Vu Vo
Research Analyst
Milken Institute
Gernot Wagner
Economist
Environmental Defense Fund
Dr. Rahul Walawalkar
Vice President, Emerging Technologies & Markets
Customized Energy Solutions
John Robert Wallace
Chairman
Enova Systems
Robert Walsh
CEO
Aurora Biofuels
Kitty Wang
Principal
Rocky Mountain Institute
Max Wei
MBA Candidate 2009, Green Jobs
UC Berkeley
David Weil
Legislative Assistant
Congressman Bob Inglis
Mitzi Wertheim
Professor
NPS
Dr. Candace Wheeler
Technical Fellow
General Motors
Dorinda White
Communications Director
Office of Congresswoman Diane Watson (CA)
Chuck Wilsker
President & CEO
The Telework Coalition
Ryan Wiser
Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Aaron Wolf
Legislative Assistant
Office of Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo (Guam)
Lisa Wright
Press Secretary/Legislative Assistant
Offices of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett
Jichong Wu
Program Associate
United Nations Foundation
Chengxiang Xiang
Postdoctoral Fellow
California Institute of Technology
Mareike Zechez
Intern
Representative Cornahan's Office
Jingwei Zhang
Chemical Engineering
UC Berkeley
Yan Zhu
Policy Fellow
Americans for Energy Leadership
Robert Zubrin
President
Pioneer Astronautics