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1:30–1:45 Welcome and Opening CommentsLarry Neal, President, PlattsRuss Stepp, President of R. W. Beck, An SAIC Company

1:45–2:30 Keynote AddressThe Hon. Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy

2:30–4:00 The Outlook for Sustainability—Economic Roundtable Discussion

Guerry Waters, Vice President Industry Strategy and Marketing Utilities Global Business Unit, Oracle (Chair)

John Kingston, Global Director of Oil, Platts Sarah O. Ladislaw, Fellow, Energy and National Security Program,

Center for Strategic and International Studies Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist, BusinessWeekRobert Murray, Vice President, Economic Affairs, McGraw-Hill Construction David Wyss, Chief Economist, Standard & Poor’s

4:00–4:30 Refreshment and Networking Break

4:30–6:00 The Outlook for Sustainability—Industry Leader Roundtable Discussion

James L. Parish, Executive Vice President, Energy Solutions and LEAN Transformations, RWD Technologies (Chair)

Michael F. Mansfield Sr., Chief Executive Officer, Mansfield Oil Company Roberta Bowman, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer,

Duke Energy Curt L. Hébert, Jr., Executive Vice President, External Affairs Entergy CorpPedro Azagra, Chief Development Officer, IberdrolaJohn A. Caroselli, Executive Vice President, National Grid

6:00–7:30 Networking Reception

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Dr. Steven E. Koonin became the Under Secretary for Science in the US Department of Energy on May 20, 2009. In that capacity, he is responsible for guiding and coordinating technical activities across the Department, overseeing its basic research activities, and providing technical advice to the Secretary of Energy. DOE activities are essential to the Administration’s goals of promoting basic science, providing clean and secure energy, and enhancing nuclear security.

Prior to his government appointment, Dr. Koonin was the Chief Scientist for BP, plc. Koonin’s understanding of energy trends and technologies, widely com-municated to the public, underpinned BP’s recent investments in alternative and renewable energy sources, including the Energy Biosciences Institute formed in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dr. Koonin joined BP in 2004 following a 29-year career at the California Institute of Technology as a Professor of Theoretical Physics. He has published more than 200 scholarly papers and supervised more than 25 PhD theses in such diverse fields as nuclear and many-body theory, nuclear astrophysics, atomic and computational physics, and global environmental science. In a twenty-year teaching career, he educated hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in advanced physics topics and authored a seminal text on Computational Phys-ics in 1985. Koonin also served as Caltech’s Provost from 1995-2004, helping to hire some 100 of the Institute’s professors and forming initiatives in biology, astronomy, the earth sciences, the social sciences, and information science. He holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Caltech and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from MIT. He and his wife Laurie have been married for 34 years and have three children, Anna, Alyson, and Benjamin.

Pedro Azagra is currently Chief Development Officer of Iberdrola and a member of the management team. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Energy East, Rochester Gas and Electric, New York State Electric and Gas Corporation, and Iberdrola Portugal. From 2004 to 2008, Azagra was a member of the board of Rokas in Greece. He also is a part-time teacher in the Univer-sidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid (ICADE). Prior to joining Iberdrola, Azagra previously worked for Morgan Stanley in London, in the Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Project Finance division. Azagra holds a Degree in Business and Law (E-3) by Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid (ICADE) and a MBA by Chicago University.

Roberta B. Bowman is Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer for Duke Energy. She is responsible for the company’s integrated strategy to operate in a way that is good for people, the planet and profits. She also serves in the office of the chairman to represent the company to key stakeholders and works with a number of national, international and industry groups to advance issues important to Duke Energy. She was named to her current position in March 2008.

Bowman has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry. She joined Duke Power in 1986 as director of power plant community relations. After a series of promotions including general manager of public issues in 1993, general manager of communications and community relations in 1994 and manager of bulk power marketing in 1995, she was named vice president of communications and community relations in 1996. She served as the company’s chief communications officer for 10 years, and was appointed senior vice president of public affairs in January 2001. In that role, she led the corporation’s communications, public affairs and community relations functions, including The Duke Energy Foundation. Following the merger with Cinergy in 2006, she was named the company’s first corporate officer in sustainability as vice president of sustainability and community affairs. During her career, Bowman has also had responsibility for public policy; government and regulatory relations; and environment, health and safety. Prior to joining the company, Bowman worked at Northeast Utilities in Hartford, Conn., from 1978 to 1986. She served as manager of nuclear information. A native of West Hartford, Conn., Bowman graduated with distinction from Tufts University in Medford, Mass., with a bachelor of arts degree.

John A. Caroselli is Executive Vice President at National Grid, an international energy company. He is the lead executive for New York State and also leads Customer Product & Service functions. John was Executive Vice President, and Chief Strategy Officer, KeySpan Corp. He was responsible for Strategic Planning, Corporate Development, Brand Management, Marketing, Sales & Customer Service.

Mr. Caroselli came to KeySpan in 2001 from AXA Financial where he was Ex-ecutive Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior to that, he held senior officer positions with Chase Manhattan, Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. He has extensive experience in strategy, merger integration, and major change programs.

Mr. Caroselli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Brooklyn College and a Master of Arts degree in organizational psychology from Fair-leigh Dickinson University. He serves on the Boards of the United Way of NYC, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, New York State Smart Grid Consortium and on the Asia Society Business Council.

Curt L. Hébert Jr. joined Entergy Corporation as Executive Vice President, External Affairs on September 1, 2001 after a lengthy career as a government energy regulator at both the federal and state levels. His responsibilities include supervision of the company’s system and federal government relations, system regulatory affairs, external and internal communications, and corporate contri-bution functions. He serves as a member of the Office of Chief Executive and reports to Entergy’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, J. Wayne Leonard.

Prior to becoming an Entergy executive, Hébert served four years in Wash-ington as a presidential appointee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-sion. He was nominated to a Republican seat on FERC by President William J. Clinton in 1997 and was named chairman by President George W. Bush in January, 2001. At 38 years of age, Hébert became the youngest chairman in history of the FERC.

As chairman, he initiated a market monitoring and mitigation plan for whole-sale electricity prices in April of 2001, putting a mechanism in place that rec-ognized individual heat rates and input costs of gas, emission allowances and O&M. This replaced a $150 hard cap and ended the run-up in electricity prices in the west within the very hour the order went into effect. He stepped down from the commission on August 31, 2001 to accept his position with Entergy.

Hébert received a bachelor of science degree from The University of Southern Mississippi and a juris doctorate from Mississippi College School of Law and completed the Reactor Technology Program at MIT.

John Kingston has 30 years’ experience as a journalist, 28 years of which he has spent covering commodities. He joined Platts in 1985 and is now its global director of oil, managing the editorial oil team worldwide, which consists of all market and news reporters.

During his 23 years at Platts, John has held various positions including domestic crude editor, international crude manager, managing editor of Platts Oilgram Price Report, executive editor of Platts Oilgram News, editor-in-chief of Platts Oilgram News, and director of metals. His efforts helped bring about the US industry’s understanding and adoption of the Platts Market-on-Close price assessment process. Prior to his career at Platts, he worked for various daily newspapers, including American Metal Market, a daily trade newspaper, where he worked as a reporter and editor.

A frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences, John is also regularly tapped for energy commentary by national and international broadcast and print and online media organizations including CNN, CNBC, ABC, CBS, WSJ, Forbes, and more. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communica-tions from Washington & Lee University.

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Sarah Ladislaw is a fellow in the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, where she concentrates on the geopolitical implications of energy produc-tion and use, energy security, energy technology, sustainable development, and climate change. She manages the CSIS end of a partnership on energy security and climate change with the World Resources Institute, an environ-mental think tank. CSIS and WRI are drafting several policy briefs as well as a roadmap for the new U.S. administration on how to manage energy security and climate change challenges. She has been involved with CSIS’s work on the geopolitics portion of the National Petroleum Council study and the Smart Power Comission, focusing particularly on energy security and climate issues. She has also worked on the implications of global energy trends, prospects for greater energy integration, U.S. leadership on climate change, and carbon management strategies and technologies.

Ladislaw joined the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2003 as a presidential management fellow, and from 2003 to 2006 worked in the Office of the Americas in DOE’s Office of Policy and International Affairs, where she covered a range of economic, political, and energy issues in North America, the Andean region, and Brazil. While at the department, she also worked on comparative investment frameworks and trade issues, as well as biofuels development and use both in the Western Hemisphere and around the world. Ladislaw received her bachelor’s degree in international affairs/East Asian studies and Japanese from the George Washington University in 2001 and her master’s degree in international affairs/international security from the George Washington Univer-sity in 2003 as part of the Presidential Administrative Fellows Program.

Michael Mandel is the former Chief Economist at BusinessWeek, where he helped direct the publication’s coverage of the domestic and global economies. Mandel wrote the magazine’s “Mandel on Economics” column, the online “Eco-nomics Unbound” blog, and many of BusinessWeek’s economic cover stories. His most recent cover story, “Innovation, Interrupted” made the surprising case that the U.S. has been hit by an innovation shortfall over the past decade.

Since joining BusinessWeek in 1989, Mandel received multiple awards for his work, including being honored as one of the 100 top U.S. business journalists of the 20th century. In 1998 Mandel won the Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious prize in business and financial journalism, for his coverage of the New Economy, and in 2002 he received the Economic Journalism Award from the Institute of Political Journalism, given to the writer “who has done the most to shape public opinion by giving the public a better understanding of economic theory and reality.” He was named “Best Economic Journalist” for 2006 by the World Leadership Forum.

Mandel holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has written several books, including The Coming Internet Depression (2000) and Rational Exuberance (2004). Mandel recently wrote Economics:The Basics (2009), a new introductory economics textbook from McGraw-Hill. His newest endeavor is an economic literacy website, www.mandeleconomics.com.

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Michael F. Mansfield Sr., Chief Executive Officer, Mansfield Oil CompanyMansfield is a strategic visionary with staying power. At age 21 he joined Mansfield Oil Company, a business founded by his parents in 1957. Over the course of the next three decades, Michael has focused on one mission: building Mansfield into an industry leader in supply, distribution, and delivery of fuel products and supply chain services. Today, with revenues in excess of $4B, the company’s service offerings remain rooted in Michael’s beliefs for building trustworthy, performance based relationships, as well as in his expectations for continuous business reinvention and innovation.

Under his leadership, the company now operates on a national basis and supports the daily service and logistics needs of the world’s largest fuel buyers. Generating over $20 million in sales per employee, Michael has built his company into a model of process and technological efficiency a company known for its world class service expertise.

Michael believes Mansfield’s primary responsibility is converting the chaotic and volatile petroleum industry supply chain into customer friendly solutions. By doggedly following this client centric philosophy, the company has enjoyed double digit growth for decades. In Michael’s opinion, the company’s growth cycle remains in its earliest stages and, with his seasoned executive team, will continue to expand in both scale and operational sophistication.

Robert Murray is Vice President, Economic Affairs for McGraw-Hill Construc-tion, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Bob has been with McGraw-Hill since 1980, and he is the author of the widely circulated McGraw-Hill Construction Outlook. He coordinates the company’s five year forecast product, the Construction Market Forecasting Service, which offers detailed projections of construction activity for the U.S and nine major regions. He is frequently quoted by such major newspapers as the Wall Street Journal on industry developments, and his comments have appeared in Business Week, Engineering News-Record, CNN, and other media outlets. In addition, Bob serves as anchorman for McGraw-Hill’s prestigious Construction Industry Outlook Conference, held in Washington each October. He also con-ducts a series of construction outlook seminars each spring and fall in various cities across the U.S. and Canada.

Bob received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, and he holds both an M.B.A. and a master’s degree in economics from Columbia University.

Larry Neal is President of Platts, a McGraw-Hill company and the leading global provider of energy and metals information. Larry joined Platts in April 2009 after an 11-year career at Standard & Poors, Platts’ sister company. He brought to his new role at Platts more than 25 years of experience in sales and customer service at major financial information and technology companies.

Most recently, Larry served as executive managing director of Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Group, a global provider of independent equity analysis and opinion. During his two years in that position, he established a clear strategic direction for the business, led its revitalization, and substantially im-proved financial performance. Previously, he headed the company’s Portfolio and Index Services business, served as managing director of Sales & Service, and held other key roles in project management and marketing.

Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s in 1998, Larry was vice president, institutional sales, at ADP and a vice president and partner in the Institutional Services division of IDD Information Services. Earlier in his career, he held sales and customer service positions at General Electric, IBM and Dow Jones.

A graduate of Syracuse University in upstate New York, he holds a bachelor’s of science degree in mechanical engineering.

James Parish joined RWD Technologies in 2000, and serves as Executive Vice President, Energy Solutions and LEAN Transformations. Parish’s group provides clients with training and process improvement solutions for lean manufacturing, back office, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, logistics, safety, and health and environmental applications. He also works with RWD’s Healthcare and Energy verticals, providing human performance improvement solutions to their global customers. Parish has served as the manager of the ACTS Consortium workforce development project, a member of the Governance Committee of Sigma Learning (a Limited Liability Commit-tee serving Delphi Corp.), and as a departmental director. Prior to joining RWD Technologies, Parish was vice president and general manager for U.S. Axle, Inc. Parish also held various senior management positions for Diesel Technol-ogy Company during its transition from a division of General Motors to a major supplier of diesel fuel systems. Following five years as a co-op student, Parish held progressively more responsible engineering and engineering manage-ment responsibilities at General Motors. Parish holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from GMI Management and Engineering Institute and his M.B.A. from Grand Valley State University.

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Russ Stepp, President of R. W. Beck, An SAIC Company, has more than 35 years of consulting experience leading program management, project management, design-build, and project execution for infrastructure systems. He served as R. W. Beck’s CEO and President from 2006 until August 2009 when the firm was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). As President of R. W. Beck, he continues to drive an aggressive growth strategy, helping to advance the business of energy, water, and waste resources.

Mr. Stepp’s infrastructure planning, management insight, and technical abili-ties have made lasting impacts on client organizations across the country and the communities they serve. He has assembled and managed complex project teams, requiring coordination among multiple project stakeholders and alignment with diverse regulatory, scheduling, budgetary, and technical requirements. He has performed major project contract negotiations and successfully led dispute resolution teams in multiple-party claims. Examples of Mr. Stepp’s projects include leading a $3.6 billion capital improvement program review addressing leadership, staffing, and program management for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. For the County of Kauai Department of Water, Mr. Stepp developed a comprehensive water plan which established a long-range integrated strategy and guide for service area improvements and public involvement.

Mr. Stepp received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Marquette University and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Guerry Waters has 30+ years experience in global information technology strategy, organization, architecture, and business-driven IT solutions.

Waters joined the Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit (previously SPL WorldGroup) in 2000 as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Previously, he was Vice President of Energy Information Strategy at META Group (now Gartner), where he focused on customer management and the alignment of information technology with energy lines of business. He has also held positions as CTO and Director of Technology Strategy and Engineer-ing at Southern Company.

Waters’ educational background includes concentrations in business technol-ogy and extensive course work in management, strategy development, and implementation planning. He is a frequent speaker and writer on issues surrounding the delivery of energy and water to customers and on the IT strategies that help utilities meet their goals amidst changing customer demands, regulations, and market structures.

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David Wyss is the Chief Economist at Standard & Poor’s, based in New York. In this position, he is responsible for S&P’s economic forecasts and publica-tions, and co-authors the monthly Economic Forecast and the weekly Financial Notes. David joined Data Resources, Inc. in 1979 as an economist in the European Economic Service in London, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill. He came back to the United States in 1983 as chief financial economist for DRI/McGraw-Hill, became chief economist for Standard & Poor’s DRI in 1992, and for Standard & Poor’s in 1999.

Before joining DRI, Dr. Wyss was a Senior Staff Economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and Economic Advisor to the Bank of England.

David holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. David testifies regularly before Congress, is quoted regularly in the press, and has appeared on many major television programs. He is currently on the economic advisory boards for SIFMA, FINRA, and Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. He was named by Treasury and Risk magazine as one of 2009’s “100 Most Influential People in Finance.”

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