John Hofmeister
<p>John Hofmeister is the former president of Shell Oil Company and founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy. This nonprofit agency, based in Washington, DC, promotes energy security solutions for the nation including affordable energy supplies, efficiency improvements, infrastructure, sustainable environmental policy and public education on energy issues. His book, "Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider", was published in May, 2010.</p>
David Crane
<p>A Fortune 200 CEO turned senior U.S. energy official, David Crane brings a rare blend of private-sector leadership and public-sector impact to the global energy conversation.</p><p>As Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the U.S.
Secretary Jennifer Granholm
<p>Jennifer Granholm is an American lawyer, educator, author and politician who served most recently as the 16th United States Secretary of Energy, and previously as the two-term governor of Michigan. </p><p>As governor, she spearheaded Michigan’s economic recovery after the Great Recession by diversifying the state’s economy to focus on clean energy. </p><p>As Secretary of Energy (2021-2025), Granholm restructured the U.S.
Andrew Winston
<p>Andrew Winston is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends, sustainable business, and how to build companies that profit by contributing to a thriving world. He was ranked #3 on the <em>Thinkers50</em> list of the most influential management thinkers in the world. </p><p>Andrew’s books on strategy have sold over a quarter million copies in 15 languages. His bestsellers include <em>Green to Gold</em> – which <em>Inc.
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
<p>Drawing from his remarkable scope of geopolitical and global economic expertise, Vijay Vaitheeswaran provides insight on how businesses can strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.</p><p>With a career that has taken him from Mexico City to London to Shanghai, Vijay Vaitheeswaran brings an impressive breadth and depth of expertise to topics ranging from globalization, politics and economics to international trade, supply chain and labor disruptions.
Peter Leyden
<p>Peter Leyden is a tech expert and thought leader on artificial intelligence, the implications of transformative technologies like clean energy, and the positive possibilities of the near future. </p><p>Leyden has followed the front edge of technological change ever since coming to San Francisco to work with the founders of <em>WIRED </em>magazine at the beginning of The Digital Age and the arrival of the internet.
Chris Mooney
<p>Chris Mooney writes about energy and the environment at <i>The Washington Post</i>. In May of 2020, Mooney and his staff won the Explanatory Reporting Pulitzer Prize for their groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.</p><p>Mooney previously worked at <i>Mother Jones</i>, where he wrote about science and the environment and hosted a weekly podcast.
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett
<p>A leading authority on globalization and global conflict, Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett offers insight on how converging forces of geopolitical realities, climate change, technology, and demographic shifts will affect every field and industry over the next century.</p><p>Thomas P.M. Barnett is a leading security geopolitical strategist and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author, who has worked in U.S. national security circles since the end of the Cold War.
Robert Bryce
<p>Robert Bryce is an author, journalist, film producer, and podcaster. He is the acclaimed author of six books on energy and innovation, including most recently, <i>A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations</i>.</p><p>Bryce has given some 400 invited or keynote lectures to groups ranging from the Marines Corps War College to the Sydney Institute and a wide variety of associations, universities, and corporations. His books and articles have been translated into six languages.
Susan Eisenhower
<p>Susan Eisenhower is the CEO and Chairman of The Eisenhower group and one of America's top energy security strategists. A political Independent, she is an outspoken advocate for setting national priorities and advancing a civil, fact-based discourse on America's challenges. She is President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. and Chairman of the Eisenhower Institute's Leadership and Public Policy Programs.</p>