A. Bjarne Moe
Director General
Norway's Ministry of Industry
A. Bjarne Moe has been involved with the oil and gas sector for more than 30 years. He has worked for the Norwegian Norway's Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. In 1988, Moe was appointed as a director general with responsibility for the oil and gas sector. He has also served as a diplomat. In addition, Moe has lectured at the Norwegian School of Business & Administration and has served as chairman and as a member of numerous committees concerned with activities in the industry. He has also chaired several bilateral commissions involving other countries. Moe holds a degree in statistics and economics, and a degree in economics from the University of Oslo.
Jim de Haseth
Former Vice President, Crude Oil Trading
Shell International Trading and Shipping Co. Ltd.
Jim de Haseth was with the Shell Group for more than 33 years. He studied chemical engineering at Delft and joined Shell in the Hague as development technologist and held several jobs in downstream oil, which included refinery technology and operations, scheduling, economics, and facility planning. Later moves into Supply and Trading spanned crude, fuels, and base oils and commercial products, specialties, and marine sales.
De Haseth was previously CEO of the global Marine Products business, before which he was supply manager for the Northern European cluster, managing director of Shell Rhine Supply and Trading and responsible for all product sales and purchases in nine European countries, and supply and trading director for Shell Nederland. He later joined Shell Trading as vice president crude oil trading in October 2000. Jim is now retired from Shell and is president/owner of a management consultant business.
Clare Spottiswoode, CBE
Clare is non-executive director of a number of companies. These include Tullow Oil, BioFuels, Bergesen, and Gas Strategies (Chairman). She has recently come off the British energy board where she was Deputy Chairman. She is also the 'Policyholder Advocate' for Aviva, negotiating on behalf of 1.1m policyholders their share of the 5+bn pounds inherited estate.
Clare is best known for her work as the UK's Gas Regulator between 1993 and 1998. She spear-headed the world's first introduction of choice and competition all the way down to the domestic level in either the gas or electricity industry, and this experience is now enabling other countries and other industries to emulate what has been done in the UK in ways appropriate to their own particular circumstances.
Following on from a degree in Mathematics and Economics at Clare College Cambridge, and then a Mellon fellow scholarship to do an M.Phil in economics at Yale University, Clare started her career as a Civil Servant in H.M. Treasury, before becoming an entrepreneur, first in importing business, and then as the founder of a software house specializing in vertical market software for business. She is the author of two computer books, and editor of two others, all of which were translated into Spanish. She also has an honorary Doctorate from Brunel University, and was honored in the 1999 New Year's Honours with a CBE for services to the gas industry.
Khunying Thongtip Ratanarat
Senior Consultant / Advisor to the Petroleum Institute of Thailand.
M.E., Chemical Engineering,
B.E., Chemical Engineering, B.Sc.,
Chemistry (minor in Economics), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Khunying Thongtip Ratanarat is now the Senior Consultant / Advisor to the Petroleum Institute of Thailand (PTIT) after her term as Executive Director expired. PTIT is an independent organization established under a non-profit foundation to help strengthen the development of Thailand's petroleum, petrochemical and related industries in human resource development, information service, technical service, and policy and regulatory issues.
Khunying Thongtip writes and directs PTIT training courses on oil and gas and petrochemicals economics. She has also been invited to give lectures and briefings on petroleum and petrochemicals to several organizations, public and private, as well as academic institutions. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Chiang Mai for Applied Geophysics.
Charles E. Bayless
Mr. Bayless is Provost of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology, a regional Campus of West Virginia University specializing in Engineering, Nursing, Athletic Coaching, Printing and General Education. Prior to December 27, 1999 Mr. Bayless was Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Illinova Corporation, and its' wholly owned subsidiary, Illinois Power Company, an electric and natural gas utility with more than half a million customers and approximately 4,500 megawatts of electricity generating capacity.
Prior to joining Illinova Corporation in June 1998, Mr. Bayless was Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Tucson Electric Power Company (UniSource Energy), from 1981 to 1989 Mr. Bayless was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Before that, he was employed by Consumers Power Company in Jackson, Michigan, first as an attorney, then as the Director of Nuclear Fuel Supply, and finally as the Director of Special Corporate Projects. Prior to that Mr. Bayless had summer jobs in line construction and at power plants at Kentucky Power and Pennsylvania Power and Light.
Mr. Bayless received his BSEE from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1968. In 1971, he earned his MSEE, in power engineering, and in 1972 his law Degree, both from West Virginia University. He earned his MBA in 1977 from the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Bayless is a Board Member of Commerce Energy. Pike Electric, and the Ontario Power Authority. He is past Chairman of the Board of Independent Wireless One, a past Board Member of Patina Oil and Gas, where he was Chairman of the Audit Committee, a past Board Member of Dynegy, where, he has been Chairman of the Audit Committee and of the Governance and Nominating Committee and a past Board Member of Trigen Energy Inc., Primary Energy Inc, Thermon, Inc, EPRI and EEI. In 1993, Financial World awarded Mr. Bayless its CEO of the Year Bronze Medal. Also in 1993, the Wall Street Transcript named Mr. Bayless the winner of its CEO of the Year Bronze Medal. In 1995, Financial World awarded Mr. Bayless its CEO of the Year Silver Medal. He is Chairman of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Energy Committee and Chairman of the West Virginia Industrial Council.
Mr. Bayless's involvement with the Boy Scouts of America is extensive. He is a member of the National Advisory Board, a past member of the National Board of Directors, a Member and past Chairman of the Philmont Ranch Committee; a Board Member of the Buckskin Council and past President of the Catalina Council. He was Support Chairman for the Boy Scouts of America at the 1999 World Jamboree (held in Chile), was Program Chairman of the Boy Scouts of America 1997 National Jamboree and led the Project 2005 team at the 2001 Jamboree. Mr. Bayless was Chairman of the National Venture Exploring Committee and he is a recipient of the Boy Scouts Silver Beaver and silver Antelope Award and the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
Mr. Bayless is also past Chairman of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council (a CEO Organization): a past Member of the University of Arizona Business School National Board of Advisors; a Member of the West Virginia University Engineering Academy; a past member of the Arizona Commission on Appellate Judicial Appointments, a past Board Member of the Public Utilities Reports, Inc.; and a past Board Member and Vice President of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bayless is an inactive member of the Michigan and West Virginia Bar Associations; a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering and Eta Kappa Nu Electric Engineering honorary fraternities and a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity; and an Eagle Scout.
Mr. Bayless is a native of Dunbar, West Virginia. He is married to the former Joan Schulter, a native of Allentown, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of one daughter Lisa and one son, Charles.
Thomas F. Armistead
Thomas F. Armistead is the energy editor and Southeast senior correspondent for Engineering News-Record, McGraw-Hill Constructionıs weekly news magazine of engineering and construction. He has been associated with power-industry construction almost continuously since 1969, when he started as an apprentice lineman on construction of American Electric Power Co.ıs 765-kV transmission line in Indiana. He constructed transmission lines and substations for seven years in the U.S. and Indonesia before becoming manager of public relations for a power and industrial general contractor. He has been with ENR since 1998, writing about the boom and bust in independent-power construction, the 2003 Northeast blackout and developments in distributed generation, alternative power technologies, clean coal, nuclear power construction, air-pollution-control regulations and carbon capture and sequestration, among other power-industry issues. He earned a B.A. in German from Middlebury College and served in Military Intelligence in Vietnam 1967-68.
Michael Shepard
Michael Shepard is president and a co-founder of E SOURCE, a Boulder, Colorado based firm that has provided technical and business intelligence to hundreds of electric and gas utilities, Fortune 500 corporate energy managers, government agencies, and other players in the energy sector since 1987. The firm provides tools, research, and client access to its experts in practice areas focused near the customer meter: assessing the latest in energy efficient technology, DSM program design and delivery, climate change policy and strategy, and best practices in such utility functional areas as customer care, E business, marketing, customer products and services, account management, and communications. E Source also works directly with large energy users to help them improve their energy procurement and energy and emissions management programs.
In addition to his general executive role in the company, Mr. Shepard oversees the firm's research and consulting activities, with particular expertise in DSM programs, energy-efficient technology, emissions markets and climate change. In 2004 and 2005 he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, closely tracking the emergence of the European carbon market. He serves on the advisory board for Avista Utilities' energy-efficiency program and chairs the board of the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, an international development organization focused on innovative energy and resource solutions for developing economies. Prior to co-founding E Source, he directed the energy program at Rocky Mountain Institute and worked at the Electric Power Research Institute. He holds a B.S. with distinction in natural resource conservation from Cornell University, and a Masters in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley.
Gregory H. Laughlin
After serving four terms in the United States House of Representatives representing the 14th Congressional District of Texas, Mr. Laughlin has been in private practice focusing on public policy, energy, international trade and tax law. Mr. Laughlin joined the Washington, DC office of Pillsbury in February 2006.
As a member of Congress, he served on the Committee on Ways and Means, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (where he served on the Subcommittees on Aviation, Surface Transportation and Water) and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. The legislation Mr. Laughlin worked on as a member of Congress included the Intermodal Transportation Safety and Efficiency Act, Pipeline Safety, Deep Water Royalty Relief Act, Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Private Property Protection Act and the Military Reserve Revitalization Act of 1995.
Mr. Laughlin was founder and co chair of the US/Former Soviet Union Energy Caucus and helped initiate the Duma-Congress meetings to better understand and resolve problems involving oil and gas development confronting US oil companies operating in Russia. During his Congressional career, he undertook many energy and economic development missions to Russia and the Central Asian republics, including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
Mr. Laughlin previously represented the Republic of Turkey in a wide range of issues including public policy, infrastructure development, economic development, international trade and foreign investment.
A colonel in the US Army Reserves, Mr. Laughlin was the only member of the U.S. Congress to see active duty during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. While on active duty, he was stationed at Sinop, Turkey during 1968-69. Mr. Laughlin retired from the US Army Reserves in 1998.
Prior to his election to Congress in 1988, Mr. Laughlin practiced law in Texas. He also served as assistant district attorney for Houston, Harris County, Texas, for four years.
