Speaker Bios

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

Jeff Bingaman has served in the United States Senate since 1982. As ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and congressional vice chair of a nonprofit coalition called the Alliance to Save Energy, Bingaman is one of the Senate's principle advocates for protecting the country's vast natural resources and for promoting sound energy policy.

Maintaining and enhancing national security is one of Bingaman's top objectives on the Energy Committee. He believes a strong domestic petroleum industry is a cornerstone to both U.S. energy security and the economy. Bingaman led his party in introducing comprehensive energy legislation that seeks to increase domestic oil and natural gas production, while taking a realistic approach to reducing energy consumption in the long-term. The legislation also strengthens the hand of independent oil producers by encouraging further production on private and state lands.

Toby Campbell-Colquhoun

Having completed a Masters in Environmental Technology at Imperial College, London, Campbell-Colquhoun joined Shell Trading in 2001 to help set up and develop the Shell Environmental Products Trading Business. His responsibilities currently include managing origination in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and trading on the United Kingdom’s Emissions Trading Scheme and the Dutch NOx Emissions Trading Scheme. Mr. Campbell-Colquhoun executed the first forward transaction and the first international spot transaction in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

Frank Convery
Heritage Trust Professor of Environmental Policy, University College, Dublin

Frank Convery was educated at University College Dublin (UCD) and the State University of New York and has degrees in forestry and resource economics. Prior to taking up his post at UCD, he was assistant and then associate professor of Natural Resource Economics at Duke University; and research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland. Convery is active on a number of EU-wide investigations and bodies, including the Science Committee of the European Environment Agency, where he is a member; and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, where he is president. He has written extensively on resource and environmental economics issues with particular reference to agriculture, forestry, energy, minerals, land use, urbanization, environment, and development in developing countries. At present, his research relates to EU environmental policy with emphasis on the use, potential, and effectiveness of market-based instruments.

Deborah Cornland
Director, Mistra’s Climate Policy Research Program (CLIPORE)

Deborah Cornland’s background is in resource and environmental management, with an emphasis on energy resources, and she was educated and trained in interdisciplinary programs combining public policy, natural science, and economics. She holds an M.S. in energy and resources from the University of California at Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in environmental and energy systems studies from Lund University, where she has also served as acting department chair. She has also served as acting department research chair at Chalmers University of Technology and as director of the energy and climate programs at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Cornland has more than 18 years of experience with energy systems analysis, analyzing technical and policy measures for mitigating environmental and social impacts of energy-related activities, with a primary focus on climate-change mitigation. Her doctoral thesis, “Energy Systems and Climate Change: Approaches to Formulating Responses,” covered issues ranging from the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases to the economics of mitigation strategies and an integrated techno-social-environmental approach to evaluating the potential co-benefits of alternative transportation fuels.

Currently, Cornland aims to support progress in the development of an international climate regime that will engage the global community after the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, as well as institutional and methodological development of the Kyoto mechanisms. She has been an external expert to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s capacity-building program for Africa and Asia, the Swedish Energy Agency in implementing the Swedish International Climate Program, and the UNFCCC Secretariat. She is vice president of Climate Business Network and collaborates actively in implementing the Swedish Business Leaders’ Initiative on Climate Change.

Kevin Fay
Executive Director, International Climate Change Partnership

Kevin Fay is an internationally recognized specialist on environmental and energy issues with particular emphasis on governmental policies involving the atmosphere and climate. He has twice been recognized by EPA for leadership in global environmental protection and has served in a management capacity for public affairs programs for major trade associations. He has also served as counsel to the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy, a coalition of several hundred companies and associations working to address the ozone depletion issue, as well as with the Safe Buildings Alliance, a business-oriented association dealing with the problem of asbestos in construction materials.

Fay was active in the legislative process that led to the 1990 Clean Air Act and has served as an industry representative on U.S. delegations dealing with these issues at international negotiations. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar. He received his J.D. from American University in Washington, D.C., and is an honors graduate from the University of Virginia.

James R. Hendricks, Jr.
Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, Duke Energy

Jim Hendricks is responsible for leading the corporate environmental, health, and safety (EHS) efforts at Duke Energy. His duties include implementing the EHS management system as well as identifying and developing relationships with key external groups, coalitions, and environmental special interest groups. He joined Duke Power, a Duke Energy company, in 1971 as an assistant design engineer, and was named general manager of the environmental division for electric system support in 1993. In 1997 he was named vice president of corporate environment, health, and safety; and he was named vice president of corporate responsibility in February 2003. He was named to his current position in February 2004.

A native of Pelzer, S.C., Hendricks graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in civil engineering and an M.S. in water resources engineering. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1970 and is a Vietnam veteran.

Hendricks is chair of the Environmental Executive Advisory Committee for the Edison Electric Institute and past chair of the Conference Board’s Chief EHS Officers’ Council. He is also a member of the Nature Conservancy’s International Leadership Council and a member of EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. He serves on the board of the Global Environmental Management Initiative.

Inge Horkeby
Director, Environmental Affairs, VOLVO AB and Member, Board of Directors, CLIPORE

Inge Horkeby has been with VOLVO AB for more than thirty years, first in technological research and development, moving to the Environmental Protection Department in 1987. Horkeby became director of Environmental Auditing, later Environmental Affairs, in 1996.

Horkeby has been a member of the Swedish Association of Environmental Auditors since 1996, and served as chair of the group from 2001 to 2003, and has served as a member of Mistra’s CLIPORE Program Board since 2004. He has also held several appointments by the Swedish government, including serving as member of the board to the Swedish Waste Research Council from 1991 to 1996, and to the Swedish Delegation on Ecological Change from 1995 to 1998. Horkeby holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

Joe Kruger conducts research on the design and implementation of emissions trading programs. Current projects include research on the European Union Emissions Trading System and analysis of program design issues for the regional emissions trading program in New England and other regions of the United States. Before coming to RFF, Kruger’s career included more than 15 years of service at EPA, most recently as a branch chief in the Clean Air Markets Division.
 

Edwin L. Mongan

Ed is responsible for DuPont’s environmental stewardship and energy management programs. He manages corporate programs including environmental planning, global climate change, and renewable energy development efforts. Ed joined DuPont in 1978 and has held positions of laboratory manager, engineering manager, and site and regional environmental leader before joining the corporate Environment and Sustainable Growth Center.

Ed represents DuPont on the World Resources Institute’s Green Power Market Development Group and the Business Roundtable’s Climate Resolve program and he is vice chairman of the compliance committee of the Chicago Climate Exchange. He is also a member of the Global Environmental Management Initiative and the American Chemistry Council’s Product Stewardship Team.

Ed is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's in environmental engineering.

Chris Mottershead
Distinguished Advisor, BP

Chris Mottershead joined BP Research at its London-based research laboratories in 1978 as an instrument and control engineer. During the mid-eighties, Mottershead lead a team to create and commercialize large-scale scientific computers. In the late eighties, he ran BP’s exploration computing activities. This was followed by a succession of research and development management roles in exploration and production. Mottershead then moved to BP Exploration’s North Sea operations, first to Glasgow and then to Aberdeen, becoming the central technical manager. He returned to London to serve as vice president of technology, engineering, and HSE for BP’s global gas, power, and renewable activities. In his current role as distinguished advisor, he provides leadership to the BP Group on making its products and operations consistent with the principles of sustainable energy and the environment. He is also a director of the U.K. Carbon Trust, the U.S. Center for Clean Air Policy, and the Advisory Board of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

William Pizer
Fellow, Resources for the Future

Billy Pizer is widely recognized for his research into the design of policies to address climate change risks caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. His work assesses how various features of environmental policy in an economic context can influence a policy’s efficacy under different circumstances, including uncertainty, technical advances, and changing costs of environmental regulation. In addition to his work at RFF, he is a senior economist at the National Commission on Energy Policy, where he provides analysis and policy options on environmental and energy security issues.

Pizer also has served as a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 2001-2002, where he worked on energy, environment, and climate change issues; been a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Environmental Science and Policy in 2000-2001; and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1997 to 1999.

Timothy J. Richards
Director, International Energy Policy, General Electric Company

In his capacity at General Electric, Timothy Richards serves as co-chair of the Energy Services Coalition, chairs the Task Force on Trade of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and chairs the Latin America Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers. He was the deputy assistant United States Trade Representative (USTR) for Western Europe and the Middle East from July 1994 through January 1996, responsible for developing U.S. trade policy positions and carrying out negotiations on numerous issues with Europe and the Middle East. At USTR, Richards also served as trade policy attaché at the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and as director for Information Industry Trade Policy. 

Prior to joining USTR, Richards was an international economist with the law firm of Dewey Ballantine, working on a variety of trade cases, including Section 301, antidumping, countervailing duty, and Section 337.  He holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor’s degree in economics and government (magna cum laude) from Bowdoin College. 

James E. Rogers
Chairman and CEO, Cinergy Corporation

Jim Rogers has served as chairman and CEO for nearly 17 years, first at PSI Energy, Inc., and then at Cinergy. Prior to joining PSI, he was executive vice president for Interstate Pipelines at the Enron Gas Pipeline Group, and a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the Dallas-based law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He represented energy companies before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Department of Energy, various Congressional committees and federal courts. Prior to that, Rogers was deputy general counsel for Litigation and Enforcement of the FERC.

Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He serves on numerous civic boards, has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues, and has testified before numerous Congressional committees. He attended Emory University and holds a J.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Philip R. Sharp
President, Resources for the Future

Phil Sharp, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana from 1975 to 1995 and a prominent authority on energy and environmental policy, was appointed president of Resources for the Future on September 1, 2005. Sharp's career combines extensive academic and political experience.

Sharp was Congressional chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a panel established by the Hewlett Foundation and other major foundations to make energy policy recommendations to the federal government. In Congress, he took a key leadership role in the development of major energy legislation. He was a driving force behind the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which led to the restructuring of the wholesale electricity market, promoted renewable energy, established more rigorous energy-efficiency standards, and encouraged use of alternative fuels. He also helped to develop a critical part of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, providing for a market-based emissions allowance trading system.

Sharp served on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he chaired the Fossil and Synthetic Fuels Subcommittee from 1981 to 1987 and the Energy and Power Subcommittee from 1987 to 1995. He also was a member of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, where he was a member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee and the Water and Power Resources Subcommittee.

Following his decision not to seek an eleventh consecutive term in the House, Sharp joined Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Lecturer in Public Policy from 1995 to 2001. He served as Director of Harvard's Institute of Politics from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2004 until his appointment at RFF.

Magid Shenouda
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Magid Shenouda is a managing director at Goldman Sachs in London, where he heads European gas and power trading. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 as an oil trader. Prior to joining the firm, Shenouda worked as a physical fuel oil and feedstock's trader for Trafigura Ltd. He earned a B.S. (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of London in 1992 and an M.S. in Shipping, Trade and Finance from the International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance (City University Business School) in 1994. 

Christopher T. Walker
Managing Director, Greenhouse Gas Risk Solutions, SwissRe

Christopher Walker is head of Swiss Re's Sustainability Business Development, the unit charged with developing commercial applications to Swiss Re Sustainability commitments and in particular business opportunities in sustainability, ecosystem markets, emissions reductions, and renewables. The unit examines business opportunities across a wide spectrum of financial service products including insurance, structured finance, third-party asset management and investments as well as the identification of risks to Swiss Re’s (re)insurance and investment activities. He also serves as a North American sustainability officer and government affairs liaison on climate change/greenhouse gas emissions issues.

Walker was appointed to the California Climate Change Advisory Commission and is a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). He serves on the board of advisors for The Climate Group, the Global Development Bonds initiative of the UN Foundation; the Panama Canal Watershed Business Plan project at Yale University; and the Climate Change Futures Study with Harvard University and the United Nations Development Programme.

Walker received his B.A. in Government from St. John's University and is also a graduate of the St. John's School of Law. Prior to joining Swiss Re in 1996, he practiced law in New York and New Jersey.

Peter Zapfel
European Union ETS Coordinator, DG Environment, European Commission

Peter Zapfel has been with the European Commission since 1998. He worked for two years in the Directorate General (DG) for Economic and Financial Affairs and in 2000 joined the DG Environment. In this capacity, he is responsible for the economic assessment of climate policy, which comprises the development and quantitative assessment of cost-effective strategies and instruments to implement the EU climate policy objectives. Zapfel has represented the commission as a delegation member in United Nations climate negotiation sessions and has been involved in the commission’s work on emissions allowance trading and national allocation plans in the implementation of the EU Emission Allowance Trading Directive. Since May 2005, he has coordinated the DG Environment’s EU Emissions Trading Scheme team.

He holds degrees from the University of Business and Economics in Vienna, Austria, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Lars Zetterberg
Director, Climate Department, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Lars Zetterberg is head of the climate change unit at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. He also leads the Mistra-financed project "ETIC: The Role of Emission Trading in Climate Policy," organized and chaired a workshop in Gothenburg in June 2005 on the topic "Lessons Learned From Allocation in the EU ETS.” Previously, Zetterberg worked closely with the Swedish government and its authorities on developing of the Swedish allocation plan. Zetterberg has also participated in several projects to analyze the EU ETS and make recommendations for improvements. Clients include the EU commission, Swedish Industry, Swedish Authorities, and the Nordic Council of Ministers.