As explained on page 7 of the Report, endorsement indicates support for the Report's vision, goals, and strategies, but not necessarily for its specific policy options. Affiliations are stated for purposes of identification only. The views expressed by the endorsers are their own and are not necessarily endorsed or shared by their affiliated organizations or employers. For fuller biographies of the Expert Group participants whose endorsements are listed at the front of the Report, please see Appendix A. Biographical sketches of experts who were invited but unable to attend the Expert Group meeting, and who subsequently endorsed the Report, are shown below.


Experts Endorsing this Report

Peter A. Bradford
Visiting Lecturer in Energy Policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
President, Bradford Brook Associates
Formerly Chair of the New York Public Service Commission and the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Thomas R. Casten
Founding Chairman and CEO, Private Power, LLC

J. Michael Davis
CEO, Avista Labs
Formerly Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Stephen J. DeCanio
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Formerly Senior Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers

John D. Edwards
Professor Emeritus of Geology, University of Colorado
Formerly Chief Geologist, Shell Oil Company

Reid Detchon
Consultant, United Nations Foundation
Formerly Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

John H. Gibbons
President, Resource Strategies
Formerly Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Director of the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment

Victor Gilinsky
Independent Consultant, Energy Issues
Formerly Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and head of RAND Corporation Physical Sciences Department

Daniel M. Kammen
Professor of Energy and Society in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG); Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy; Professor of Nuclear Engineering; Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), University of California, Berkeley

Henry Kelly
President, Federation of American Scientists
Formerly Assistant Director for Technology, Office of Science and Technology, and Senior Associate, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment

Amory B. Lovins
CEO (Research), Rocky Mountain Institute
Formerly member, U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Research Advisory Board

Rose McKinney-James
President and CEO, Energy Works Consulting
Formerly Commissioner of the Nevada Public Service Commission

C. Michael Ming
Managing Member, K. Stewart Energy Group, LLC

William A. Nitze
President, Gemstar Group
Formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

John A. Riggs
Executive Director of the Program on Energy, the Environment, and the Economy, The Aspen Institute
Formerly Staff Director, U.S. House Energy and Power Subcommittee, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Energy

Gary D. Simon
Senior Vice President, Northeast Utilities System
Formerly Vice President, El Paso Natural Gas Company

Bruce Smart
Retired Chairman and CEO, Continental Group
Formerly Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade

James L. Sweeney
Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Senior Fellow, Institute for Energy Policy Research; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University

C.E. (Sandy) Thomas
President, H2Gen Innovations, Inc.

Bill White
President and CEO, WEDGE Group, Inc.
Formerly Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

Additional Endorsing Experts Invited but Unable to Attend the Expert Group Meeting

(As of 14 March 2002)

Anita M. Burke
Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Shell Canada Limited

Charles B. Curtis
President & COO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Formerly Deputy Secretary of Energy and Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Robert A. Hefner III
Owner, The GHK Corporation

Robert C. Mcfarlane
Chairman & CEO, Energy and Communications Solutions LLC
Formerly National Security Advisor to the President and Founder, Global Energy Investors LLC

Joan Ogden
Research Scientist, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University.

Roger Saillant
President & CEO, Plug Power, Inc.
Formerly VP & General Manager Powertrain Control Systems, Ford Visteon

Philip R. Sharp
Senior Fellow, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, and Chair, Electric Group, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, NAFTA
Formerly Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy & Power, U.S. House of Representatives

Robert H. Socolow
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Co-Director, Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University
Member, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, National Research Council

Joe Stanislaw
President & CEO, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Formerly Chief Oil Economist, International Energy Agency, and Professor, Cambridge University

Philip K. Verleger, Jr.
President, PkVerleger LLC
Formerly Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisors, and Director, Office of Domestic Energy Policy, Department of the Treasury

R. James Woolsey
Partner, Shea & Gardner
Formerly Director of Central Intelligence and Under Secretary of the Navy

Sam Wyly
Chairman, Ranger Capital and Green Mountain Power Company

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