Speakers, Panelists, Facilitators, and Rapporteurs(Steering Committee members are separately listed with other members' biosketches. Douglas R. Brookman is President of Public Solutions, Inc., a conflict management consulting firm. His work is focused at the intersection of energy and environment where technology is a driving force. Recent federal clients include the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Interior, Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, The President’s Council’s on Environmental Quality and Sustainable Development, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was previously Senior Manager/Mediator for the American Energy Assurance Council's National Energy Strategy Consensus Building project. He has a Masters Degree in Public Affairs (Economics) [Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas] and B.A. in Sociology [Ohio State University]. Ric Cheston is an Assistant Director for the U.S. General Accounting Office’s (GAO’s) Natural Resources and Environment team. During his career at GAO, Ric has led teams assessing program effectiveness in a variety of energy, science, agriculture and transportation areas. He is currently leading reviews examining DOE laboratories’ technology transfer efforts and assessing issues associated with adding new power generating capacity in restructured electricity markets. In recent years, GAO’s Natural Resources and Environment team has issued a number of reports that have examined issues associated with evaluating the performance of federal research and development programs. Robert Costanza is a Professor at the University of Maryland, and Director of the Institute for Ecological Economics. He has recently been appointed the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont and will take up that position in September, 2002. His research interests include: landscape-level integrated spatial simulation modeling; analysis of energy and material flows through economic and ecological systems; valuation of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and natural capital; and analysis of dysfunctional incentive systems and ways to correct them. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers and 17 books. His work has been cited in more than 1,600 scientific articles since 1987 (http://wos.isiglobalnet2.com) and more than 65 interviews and reports on his work have appeared in various media. Graham Davis is Associate Professor of Economics and Business at the Colorado school of Mines. His research interests include real options and their application to the valuation and management of natural resources, and he has recently completed a real options valuation of the DOE's renewable electricity R&D program. Dr. Davis has written one book and over 20 refereed articles, and has just completed a three year term on the Committee for Earth Resources at the National Academies of Science. He is currently writing an introductory real options textbook with Diane Lander of University of Southern Maine, to be published by South Western College Publishing in Spring of 2003. Soussan Faiz is widely recognized for her applications of real option methods to the energy industry. She has advanced Real Options Valuation (ROV) to strategic assets, mergers & acquisitions, new business, e-business, portfolio opportunities, and venture funding. She has contributed to over 70 ROV events worldwide and is on the corporate board of the Real Options Group. Most recently, she was Manager of Global Valuation Services at Texaco, where led the application of value-based business technologies including return on investment, portfolio optimization, enterprise risk management, and value-based management. She is a member of Global Business Network, Corporate Strategy Board, World Future Society, and Society of Petroleum Engineers. Now an independent consultant, she holds a BSc in Mathematics (Southampton University) and an MSc in Operational Research (The London School of Economics). Lisa Frantzis is a Director at Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Renewable and Advanced Energy Systems. For the past seven years, she managed the Arthur D. Little projects to externally review program-impact benefit estimates developed by DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) office's Planning Units, as part of the annual Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) data call process. She has extensive knowledge about EERE program benefit metrics, as well as expertise working with private research companies to develop R&D roadmaps and performance metrics to measure progress. She also recently assisted EERE in its portfolio and strategic management process. She has extensive experience facilitating executive visioning and roadmapping workshops. Robert Fri is a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future. He has served as director of the National Museum of Natural History, president of Resources for the Future, and deputy administrator of both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration. Fri is currently a director of American Electric Power Company; a member of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Research Council; and a member of the National Petroleum Council. He chaired the National Research Council project on evaluating the benefits and costs of energy research and development. He received his B.A. in physics from Rice University and his M.B.A. from Harvard University. Steffen Gackstatter is Senior Manager in the Technology and Innovation Management Practice at Arthur D. Little, Cambridge (US). He has conducted a benchmarking study and workshops on portfolio management for the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. His clients for portfolio strategies include both public institutions and industrial corporations. He is the author of a book on Decision Support System for R&D Portfolio Planning and several articles on project valuation and project management. Dr. Gackstatter has a PhD in technology management and business degrees from the Universtity of Hohenheim, Germany, and the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, France. David Garman is Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the Department of Energy. Prior to his position as Assistant Secretary, Garman has served as Chief of Staff to Alaska Senator Frank H. Murkowskia and on the professional staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Garman’s work has focused mainly on energy and the environment, including areas such as the newly emerging “environmental intelligence and security,” and working on issues such as global climate change, transboundary pollution, and regional environmental threats from the Former Soviet Union. Garman also served as a U.S. Senate observer at virtually all of the major negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 1995-2000. Garman holds a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University, and a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University. David Greene is a Corporate Fellow of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has spent over 20 years researching transportation and energy policy issues for the U.S. government. His research interests include energy demand modeling, economic analysis of petroleum dependence, modeling market responses to advanced transportation technologies and alternative fuels, and economic analysis of policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Dr. Greene earned a B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1971, an M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1978. He has published over one hundred fifty articles in professional journals, contributions to books and technical reports. Gregory L. Hamm is an independent consultant who specializes in solving organizational problems via decision facilitation, coaching, and quantitative models. His recent focus is the use of Real Options Valuation to support major investment decisions and consequent asset management. He has also worked extensively on environmental planning, R&D planning, and market analysis. Recent projects include: a review of nuclear power forecasts, optimization of a portfolio of generator purchases, probabilistic models of distribution system failures, and strategy for a co-generation facility entering the competitive electric market. Dr.Hamm has taught quantitative decision modeling in seminars to a variety of professional audiences and was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, Business School. He holds a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and is a Registered Professional Engineer in California. Diana Hicks is a senior policy analyst at CHI Research, Inc. Previously, she was on the faculty of the SPRU, University of Sussex where she taught graduate courses in science policy and sociology of science. Her research explores how research and innovation are related, examining, for example, university-industry relations in Japan and why companies do basic research. Many of her publications marshal bibliometric techniques, most recently to explore shifts in US innovation. At CHI she has conducted bibliometric evaluations and analysis for various federal agencies, foreign governments and for the American Cancer Society. She has been visiting professor and researcher at: the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in Tokyo, Japan; and the Royal Society in London. Gretchen Jordan is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with Sandia National Laboratories. She works with the DOE Office of Science on innovative methods for assessing the effectiveness of basic research organizations and on best practices in the management of science. She also works with DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy offices on evaluation and performance. She is chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Topical Interest Group on Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation. She has edited special issues on measuring R&D performance -- Journal of Technology Transfer, July 1997, and Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999; and contributed to books on evaluating science programs. Dr. Jordan has a Ph.D. in Economics. Helen Kim is an Associate Project Manager in the Energy Analysis unit of the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA). For the past two years, she has been a member of the team conducting the evaluation of the New York Energy $martSM program. She recently completed the renewable energy assessment section of the 2002 New York State Energy Plan. She has held teaching positions at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany and at Skidmore College. She holds a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems, an M.B.A., and a Ph.D degree in Organizational Studies from SUNY Albany. Paul Leiby is on the Senior Research Staff of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he has worked since 1987. Prior to that he was a research fellow at Harvard University's Energy and Environmental Policy Center. His recent research topics include energy security, oil market modeling, the evaluation of emergency oil stockpiling policies, the economic analysis of alternative motor fuels, and policies for managing greenhouse gas emissions. He has served on the Office of Technology Assessment's Advisory Group on Industry for their 1991 study on greenhouse gas reductions, the Energy Modeling Forum's panels on World Oil Modeling and Energy Security, and the Transportation Research Board's Alternative Fuels Committee. He received his Masters Degree in Public Policy, and his Baccalaureate Degree from Harvard University. William D. Magwood, IV, is the Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Mr. Magwood is responsible for developing next-generation nuclear power plants and advanced nuclear energy technologies; producing, distributing, and conducting research associated with isotopes such as those required for medical treatment, diagnosis and research; consulting on university education programs; and developing advanced nuclear power systems required for NASA deep space exploration and special terrestrial national security applications. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Magwood served as the Associate Director for Technology and Program Planning in the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology. Mr. Magwood holds a B.S. degree in Physics and a B.A. degree in English from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Scott H. Mathews is a Mathematical Modeling Analyst and Technical Lead, in Computational Finance Modeling and Simulation, at The Boeing Company's Phantom Works. His work is focused on design of financial and investment decision models featuring real asset option pricing for numerous strategic projects. He has several pending patents in the area of real options based on the Datar-Mathews Method and economic demand curve models. He also has been instrumental in applying object-oriented methods and UML (Unified Modeling Language) techniques to large-scale spreadsheet-based business case models. He has degrees in finance, engineering and computer science. Mr. Mathews previously worked at the Artificial Intelligence Labs at SRI International, and was a robot control systems design engineer stationed in Europe and Japan for Rockwell International. Michael McKee is Professor of Economics at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include laboratory experiments in economics, environmental and public economics. Professor McKee has published more than 50 articles and his work has appeared in many of the leading journals in economics including the RAND Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Land Economics. He is currently co-editor of Economic Inquiry. John Mortensen is a private consultant in energy program evaluation and measurement. He has coordinated the annual prospective benefits estimation process for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, and is assisting the Office of Industrial Technologies in developing benefit estimates and performance measures for its programs. He was formerly a senior policy analyst with National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a policy analyst with Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Mortensen received a B.A. in physics and political science from Potsdam College, and an M.P.A. and Ph.D. in public administration from Syracuse University, concentrating on R&D evaluation. M. Ishaq Nadiri is the Jay Gould Professor of Economics at New York University (NYU) and has served as chairman of the Economics Department and Director of the CV Starr Center. He has been actively involved with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1967. Professor Nadiri’s main research interests are productivity analysis, economics of R&D and technical change, telecommunications economics, investment modeling, and growth. His research works have appeared in a wide variety of journals and books. He has served as a consultant to a number of corporations, governments and international organizations, is listed in Who’s Who in Economics and Who’s Who in America, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Parry M. Norling is an AAAS Fellow at RAND's Washington office. He retired after 33 years with the DuPont Company where he held several R&D and manufacturing management positions. From 1999-2001 he served part-time as Corporate Technology Adviser at DuPont supporting the Chief Science and Technology Officer. He is chairman of the Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s CHEMRAWN (CHEMical Research Applied to World Needs) committee. He was Chairman of the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) 1999-2000, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Creativity Association and the National Research Council's Chemical Sciences Roundtable. His research interests include improving innovation processes, assessing environmental technologies for sustainable development, and understanding near term nanotechnologies. Dr. Norling holds a Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry, Princeton University 1965; a B.A., Physical Sciences, Harvard College, 1961; and is a graduate of Executive Management Program, Penn State, 1977). Brandon Owens is Senior Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He specializes in the economic valuation of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Mr. Owens has been heavily involved in the valuation of DOE's R&D portfolio since 1994. He recently completed a tax-study entitled "An Economic Valuation of a Geothermal PTC" which examines the project-level impacts of a production tax credit on geothermal energy projects. In 2001, he conducted several real options analysis projects in collaboration with Dr. Graham Davis of the Colorado School of Mines. In one of these projects, real options analysis was used to value the Department of Energy's (DOE) renewable energy R&D portfolio. Thomas Pelsoci is the Managing Director of Delta Research Co., providing technology economic assessment and trend analysis to federal agencies, electric and gas utilities, and financial institutions. Dr. Pelsoci held senior banking positions at First National Bank of Chicago and Sanwa Bank and was active in financing technology ventures and projects. His industrial experience includes positions as R&D Engineer at TRW and Management Consultant in the high technology practice of KPMG Peat Marwick. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and Ph.D. in Public Policy from University of Minnesota. Jeanne Powell is Chief Economist in the Economic Assessment Office, Advanced Technology Program (ATP), National Institute of Standards and Technology. She is also Leader of the Economic Analysis Group, where she develops and implements data collection and metrics systems for ATP’s program evaluation plan. She developed ATP’s Business Reporting System and has published a number of reports on ATP's progress, including Development, Commercialization, and Diffusion of Enabling Technologies: Progress Report (2000), Business Planning and Progress of Small Firms Engaged in Technology Development through the Advanced Technology Program (1999), and Development, Commercialization, and Diffusion of Enabling Technologies: Progress Report for Projects Funded 1993-1995 (1997). Previously, she was a private Certified Public Accountant (CPA), performed corporate audits for regional CPA firms, and was a Professor of Economics, Business Statistics and Accounting with Montgomery College. Robert C. Ricci is the Director of the Office of Safety and Security at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Special Programs Administration’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. He manages computer and engineering analysis programs that support the Federal Rail Administration in railroad systems research, rail-highway grade crossing safety research, and structures and dynamics; and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in crash-worthiness, biomechanics, and crash avoidance. He is responsible for Volpe's activities in Physical Security, supporting the U.S. Capitol Police and the U.S. Department of State, and in Information Security, supporting the Federal Aviation Administration. He was previously with the RCA David Sarnoff Research Laboratories and at the NASA Electronics Research Center. Mr. Ricci was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in EE from M.I.T and an M.S. degree in Management from M.I.T. J. David Roessner is Associate Director of the Science and Technology Policy Program at SRI International, Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Research Associate in the Center for International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington University. His interests include technology policy, evaluation of research programs, management of innovation in industry, technology transfer, and indicators of scientific and technological development. He is editor of Government Innovation Policy: Design, Implementation, Evaluation; editor of a special issue of Research Policy on evaluation of government innovation programs; co-editor with Philip Shapira of a special issue of Research Policy on evaluation of industrial modernization programs; and co-editor with Albert Link of a special issue of Research Policy devoted to the economics of technology policy. Dr. Roessner received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and Stanford University, respectively; and M.A. and Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from Case Western Reserve University. Paula L. Scalingi is President of The Scalingi Group, LLC, which provides technical expertise to public and private sector organizations to address their infrastructure security needs. She previously was founder and director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection; and before that, founder and director of the Infrastructure Assurance Center at Argonne National Laboratory, where she also served as Director of the Decision and Information Sciences Division. She served as technical liaison for the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection; and has held positions in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Scalingi is the author of a book and several articles on security-related issues. Carl Michael Smith is the Department of Energy's 9th Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, sworn in on February 5, 2002. He is responsible for an $860 million program that includes management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and of R&D on advanced power generation, clean fuels, and oil and gas supply. Mr. Smith served previously as the State of Oklahoma's Secretary of Energy. Before entering State government, Mr. Smith operated an independent oil and gas company in Oklahoma. A native of Oklahoma, he is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University's College of Law in 1969. John Stringer is Executive Technical Fellow in the Science & Technology Development Division (S&TDD) at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He is also a Professor at Stanford University. Prior to these roles, Dr.Stringer was Head of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Liverpool, England. For the last several years, Dr. Stringer has assisted the U.S. Department of Energy in a number of ways. He was a member of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee from 1992 to 1998; for the final two years of this period he was Chair. Marjorie (Margie) L. Tatro is the Director of Sandia National Laboratories' Energy and Transportation Security Center. She leads a group of approximately 120 people working to make the nation's energy and air transportation systems safer, more secure, and more reliable. She is responsible for a portfolio of programs that include a $12M fossil energy program, a $40M renewable and energy storage program, and $5M of infrastructure programs (energy and transportation). Ms. Tatro holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and has been employed by Sandia National Labs since 1985. She has worked in renewable energy research, facilities design, software design, and energy reliability groups while at Sandia. Scott W. Tinker is Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (UT),a major international energy and environmental research organization. He is the State Geologist of Texas and is a Professor in UT's Department of Geological Sciences. Dr. Tinker was previously with Marathon Oil’s Petroleum Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado. He is often sought as a lecturer, has testified before Federal and State Congressional committees on energy-related issues, and is an active member of many professional, honor, and steering committees. He sits on the Board of Visitors for Trinity University and on the American Geological Institute (AGI) Foundation. Jim Turnure is a Principal in the Energy Group of ICF. His primary responsibility is working with private sector clients to help manage regulatory and market risk. He specializes in integrated analysis of energy, fuel, and emissions allowance markets. Mr. Turnure spent seven years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). He was the lead analyst on electric utility issues for EPA’s Office of Policy and helped design many widely used computer simulation models in the energy field. Mr. Turnure holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in geographic studies from the University of Chicago. Gunnar Walmet has been with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for 20 years, and Program Director for NYSERDA's Industry and Building Research and Development (R&D) Programs for the past 12 years. These programs have helped companies bring into use dozens of innovative, energy-efficient and environmentally beneficial technologies and processes. NYSERDA's projects have been recognized with “The Best of What's New” Award by Popular Science, DOE's National Award for Energy Innovation, the Governor's Pollution Prevention Award, an R&D 100, and others. Prior to joining NYSERDA, Mr. Walmet was an engineer at General Electric Company's R&D Center and Medical Systems Division where his research resulted in fourteen issued patents. He has a MSME from Union College and a BSME from Trinity College. Mark Weatherly is Deputy Associate Director for Energy, Science, and Water at the Office of Management and Budget. He is responsible for policy, management, and budget oversight of the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Smithsonian, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Army Corps of Engineers. He leads the OMB in implemening the President’s Management Agenda Initiative to improve the investment criteria, performance measurement, and effectiveness of Federal research and development programs. Prior to this position he was the Chief of the Agriculture Branch at OMB and a principal analyst for federal financing at the Congressional Budget Office. He has an M.B.A. from Cornell University and a B.A. from Colby College. Joseph S. Wholey is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Southern California. He was previously Senior Advisor at the U. S. General Accounting Office and at the U. S. Office of Management and Budget, focusing on performance information, decision making, and implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act. He was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Director of Program Evaluation Studies at the Urban Institute. He has held elective office on the Arlington County Board, and served as Chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the Virginia Board of Social Services. A Phi Beta Kappa and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Dr. Wholey holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Catholic University), and an M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Philosophy (Harvard University). Rachel Winters is with the Office of Energy Analysis, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. She has been actively engaged in the energy field for over 20 years. Her fields of expertise include strategic planning, program evaluation, and energy project financing. Among her major projects were management of the New York Energy $martSM Loan Fund and the Energy Investment Loan Program. She has an M.P.A. from the Rockefeller College at The University at Albany. Frances Wood is a Senior Consultant with the energy-consulting firm OnLocation, Inc. She has performed and managed numerous national energy and environmental policy analyses using integrated energy models such as IDEAS, NEMS, and POEMS. She has supported the DOE Policy Office with analyses of restructured electricity markets, including the National Transmission Grid Study and the Supporting Analysis for the Administration’s Comprehensive Electricity Competition Act. She has managed the integrated energy modeling of energy efficiency and renewable programs as part of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) quality metrics since 1994. 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