Board of Advisors
Senator Bill Bradley
Senator Bill Bradley is Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. Additionally, Senator Bradley serves as Chief Outside Advisor to McKinsey & Company's Nonprofit practice. From 1997-1999, he was Senior Advisor and Vice Chairman of the International Council of JP Morgan & Co. During that time, he also served as an essayist for CBS evening news and a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Maryland. He has authored five books on American politics, culture and economy.
Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979-1997 representing the state of New Jersey. In 2000, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to serving in the Senate, he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1964 and a professional basketball player with the New York Knicks from 1967-1977, during which time they won two NBA championships. Senator Bradley holds a B.A. degree in American history from Princeton University and an M.A. degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Robert N. Danziger
Throughout his professional career, Robert N. Danziger has been a leader in discovering technology and policy solutions for energy independence and a clean environment. He is founder and served as Chairman and CEO of Sunlaw Energy Corporation (1980-2005), a pioneering independent energy producer and technology developer that set many benchmarks for reliability, profitability, and emissions levels. Mr. Danziger also co-founded Emerachem, a leading producer of air pollution control catalysts including the SCONOx system, and based on its performance, he successfully secured the Environmental Protection Agency's mandate for the lowering of allowable emissions from power plants.
Mr. Danziger has worked on a number of international energy and pollution control projects, and was the first to successfully develop a gas turbine combined cycle power plant after the law was changed to allow independent energy producers. To finance these plants, he created unique funding and risk management mechanisms that became a model for energy developments around the world. From 1978 to 1986, Mr. Danziger served as a policy analyst, project manager and consultant at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, focusing on the hybrid car, photovoltaics, alternative fuels, the International Space Station and other emerging technologies. He was an advisor to Google’s ReChargeIt electric and hybrid vehicle program and continues to investigate greenhouse gas mitigation strategies that are commercially sustainable. He holds four patents, two for inventions in chemistry relating to power plants and pollution controls.
Since 2004 Mr. Danziger has lectured at Stanford University on climate change, biofuels, oceanic pollution and emerging solutions, and oil price forecasting. He has also lectured on entrepreneurship at Rice and Pepperdine universities and on alternative energy law at UCLA, University of Bridgeport and Corona-Norco State Prison. From 1980 to 1982, Mr. Danziger was an Adjunct Professor, alternative energy law, at Whittier Law School, where he received his J.D. In 1987, he won the Gold Medal for Best Original Music at the International Film and Television Festival of New York.
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is editor at large of CNET Networks and editor of its IT-industry newsletter, Release 1.0. Dyson focuses on emerging technologies, companies and markets, both as a journalist and as an active private investor in communications/IT start-ups in the U.S. and Europe.
Known for her industry insight, Dyson wrote a book in 1998 on the impact of the Net on people's lives, "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age," which includes a number of chapters about today's hot topics such as security, privacy, anonymity and intellectual property. She also participates in policy discussions in the U.S. and elsewhere on topics ranging from intellectual property, freedom of speech and privacy to economic development, and was founding chairman of ICANN, the domain-name governance body. Dyson sits on the boards of CV-Online, Graphisoft, Meetup and WPP Group, among others.
Dyson began her career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, renaming it EDventure Holdings, which she recently sold to CNET. Dyson graduated from Harvard Business School with a degree in economics.
Paul J. Feldman
Paul J. Feldman is Chairman of the Midwest ISO (Independent Transmission System Operator), which manages energy in 15 Midwestern states and a portion of Canada. He is also Chairman of TrendIQ, a business intelligence firm that utilizes its proprietary software to provide information from the text available via the Internet, as well as CEO of China Energy Partners, a special purpose acquisition corporation focused on energy in China. He has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to the National Coal Council. He also sits on several advisory boards of firms involved in energy and technology and is an active angel investor and entrepreneur in the Northern Virginia technology community.
Mr. Feldman began his career with AT&T, where he worked for 20 years in positions of increasing responsibility in marketing, sales, R&D and manufacturing, and finally, as Vice President of Consumer Products. After leaving AT&T, he served as CEO of two large energy companies, founded and sold three new ventures in the energy and technology sector, and assisted Novell in a business turnaround assignment as Vice President and General Manager.
Mr. Feldman’s educational background includes a B.A. in mathematics and an M.A. in economics, with advanced work towards a Ph.D. in econometrics. Additionally, he taught at Cleveland State University as an Associate Professor.
T.J. Glauthier
T.J. Glauthier is an advisor to organizations in the energy and clean tech sectors, including venture capital and private equity firms, start-up and alternative energy companies, electric utilities, and global energy and transportation companies, both through his firm, TJG Energy Associates, LLC, and through association with Booz Allen Hamilton’s global energy practice. Mr. Glauthier served as the second-highest official at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where from 1999 to 2001 as Deputy Secretary and COO he directed management and policy development and represented DOE and the President in national and international forums and the media. Mr. Glauthier is also the former President and CEO of the Electricity Innovation Institute, an affiliate of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and under his leadership it initiated programs that included modernizing the electricity grid, clean energy resources, advanced coal technologies, and critical infrastructure security.
Mr. Glauthier served in the White House for five years before going to DOE, as the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy and Science in the Office of Management and Budget. Earlier, he was a Vice President of Temple, Barker & Sloane, a management consulting firm, where he concentrated in corporate financial planning and economic analysis of public policy issues, such as acid rain legislation. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, he spent three years as Director of Energy and Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund, focusing on technology transfer, the climate change treaty, and the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Mr. Glauthier also serves on the boards of directors of EnerNOC, Inc., a demand-response service provider, and Union Drilling, Inc., a contract natural gas driller. His pro bono activities include serving as an advisor to Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency and on the board of directors of the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District. He holds an A.B. from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Dr. David J. Jhirad
Dr. David J. Jhirad is an internationally recognized leader in energy and environmental issues. He has made major contributions to electric power policy and regulatory reform, natural gas infrastructure development, and international energy security. Dr. Jhirad currently serves as Vice President for Research and Evaluation at the Rockefeller Foundation and is responsible for harnessing global intellectual and financial resources, including innovations in science, technology and connectivity, to forge sustainable paths out of poverty. Since 2003, Dr. Jhirad has been Vice President for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute (WRI), an organization in Washington D.C. that conducts policy analysis to solve global environmental issues.
During the Clinton administration, Dr. Jhirad served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Energy Policy, Trade and Investment and as Senior Advisor for Multilateral and Bilateral Affairs (1995-2001). At the International Energy Agency ("IEA"), Dr. Jhirad served as Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board and as Chairman of the Energy Policy Committee. He led administration energy and environmental policy initiatives with Australia, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, South Africa, the G8 and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ("APEC") Energy Working Group. As Senior Energy Advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, Dr. Jhirad was the key architect of projects to promote private investment in the power sector of developing countries.
Dr. Jhirad is a physicist previously with Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, where he led programs on energy and power sector policy analysis, modeling and technology assessment. He has worked on optical information processing at IBM, served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts, and is a former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge. He co-authored the book, Energy Strategies: Toward a Solar Future, and over 60 technical papers. Dr. Jhirad holds a Ph.D in applied physics from Harvard University, where he won the Bowdoin Prize for excellence in research. He also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in physics and applied mathematics from Cambridge University, and a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in physics from Delhi University.
William A. Nitze
William A. Nitze has been working on energy and environmental issues for most of his career. Mr. Nitze currently serves as President of the Gemstar Group, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that develops market-based approaches to global environmental problems, and seeks to generate sustainable economic growth through the better management of water, energy and other scarce resources using market incentives. Prior to founding Gemstar, Mr. Nitze served as Assistant Administrator for International Activities at the Environmental Protection Agency (1994-2001), where he made environmental security a focus of the agency's international work, establishing a formal working relationship among the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and EPA on environmental security issues.
As President of the Alliance to Save Energy (1990-94), Mr. Nitze led a broad coalition of business, government, labor and consumer interests in supporting and implementing policies and programs to promote energy efficiency ranging from energy efficient building codes to efficiency standards for appliances to energy efficiency incentives in mortgages and commercial leases. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment in the Reagan and Bush administrations (1987-1990), Mr. Nitze was the principal working level negotiator on multilateral environmental issues ranging from trade in endangered species to climate change. In 1988, Mr. Nitze played a key role in creating and organizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
After leaving the State Department in early 1990, Mr. Nitze was a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, where he wrote a monograph entitled The Greenhouse Effect: Formulating a Convention. Many of the elements discussed in this monograph were subsequently incorporated into the Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed in 1992. Prior to entering the public policy arena, Mr. Nitze spent fourteen years at the Mobil Oil Corporation (1974-1987), where he served as Assistant General Counsel, Exploration & Producing Division, and General Counsel, Mobil Japan. Mr. Nitze holds B.A. degrees from Harvard College and Wadham College, Oxford, and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
R. James Woolsey
R. James Woolsey has served the United States government on five different occasions, most recently as Director of Central Intelligence. Currently, as a venture partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California, he concentrates on clean tech investments, especially renewable energy and energy security. He also is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group of Paladin Capital Group, a Senior Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and Of Counsel to Goodwin Procter. In addition, he is Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council and serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. In 2003, Consulting magazine named Mr. Woolsey to its list of Top 25 Consultants in the U.S
Mr. Woolsey has held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations during 12 years of government service. In addition to CIA Director, he was Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Under Secretary of the Navy, and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. He was also Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and as an officer in the U.S. Army, advised the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I). Mr. Woolsey has previously served as a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S.(Rumsfeld Commission), The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission). He is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.
Mr. Woolsey was a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. A frequent contributor of articles to major publications, he also gives speeches and media interviews on foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. Mr. Woolsey holds a B.A. from Stanford University, graduating With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and an LL.B from Yale Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Daniel Yergin
A highly respected authority on energy, economics and international politics, Daniel Yergin is a world-recognized author and plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He is the recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.” Dr. Yergin is currently Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms, and Executive Vice President of IHS.
Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for the national bestseller The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Translated into a dozen languages, it was also the subject of a PBS documentary, as was his most recent book, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which received wide attention for its analysis and narrative of how the “world is changing its mind about markets.” Dr. Yergin chaired the U.S. Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the U.S. National Petroleum Council and was vice chair of its new Facing the Hard Truths about Energy study. He is also a board member of the U.S. Energy Association and the U.S.-Russian Business Council. He is one of the “Wise Men” of the International Gas Union.
Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and on the Board of the New America Foundation, a Director of the U.S.-Russia Business Council and on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Economics. Dr. Yergin holds a B.A. from Yale University, a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and honorary degrees from the University of Houston and the University of Missouri.
