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Nissa Darbonne
Executive Editor, Oil and Gas Investor, Hart
- Executive Editor of Hart Energy Publishing’s Oil and Gas Investor group
- Joined Hart in 1998 after nine years in news reporting for The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, Louisiana), the last two years as business editor
- BA in journalism and English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette
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James A. Slutz
President, Managing Director, Global Energy Strategies LLC
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy Former Chair Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF)
- President, Managing Director, Global Energy Strategies LLC
- US Asst. Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy (DOE) (2007-09)
- Chair, Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) (until 2009)
- Deputy Asst. Secretary for Oil & NG for the National Petroleum Council
- Participant of the study, “Facing the Hard Truths About Energy”
- MBA from Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business
- B.S. from Ohio State University, School of Natural Resources
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Belinda Robinson
Chief Executive of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association
- Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA)
- Participate in Government’s Reference Group responsible for developing a national energy security policy
- Participate in CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship Advisory Committees
- Chairs the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network
- Chairs CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship Advisory Committee
- Master of Environmental Law from the Australian National University
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Keith Barnett
Director, Strategic Analysis for Merrill Lynch Global Commodities
- Responsible for the longer term fundamental analysis of global energy commodities and their markets for Merrill Lynch’s global commodity trading platform, and has more than 25 years experience in energy analysis, marketing, trading, production, drilling and other aspects of the energy business
- Previously worked for Brown & Root, Chevron, Columbia Gas, and most recently American Electric Power
- Led the natural gas task force for Edison Electric Institute for several years and testified before FERC and the U.S. Senate Energy Sub-Committee on natural gas and power related matters
- Was the Power Generation Lead on the National Petroleum Council 2003 Natural Gas Study in addition to serving on the Coordinating Sub-Committee and other sub-groups of that study
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Rod Lowman
President and CEO, America’s Natural Gas Alliance
- President and CEO of America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA)
- Responsible for establishing and implementing the ANGA's governance structure, public policy priorities and strategic communications initiatives. Lowman More than 20 years of product-sector advocacy experience
- Before working for ANGA, Lowman served as president of the Abundant Forests Alliance, Inc., president of the American Plastics Council, and executive vice president of the American Chemistry Council
- Also worked with Combustion Engineering, Inc. (now Asea Brown Boveri, Inc.—ABB) as director of Government Affairs and with Gulf Oil Corporation (now Chevron Oil Corporation) as senior federal relations representative
- MBA in chemical engineering
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