Opening Remarks:
Nancy E. Anderson, Executive Director of the Sallan Foundation, is a life-long New Yorker. After obtaining both her B.A. and Ph.D. from New York University, she served as an environmental advisor in City government for two decades.
Since opening the doors of the Sallan Foundation in 2005, she has worked to advance useful knowledge for greener cities. Making high performance building New York's "new normal" and seeking sustainable solutions to urban energy needs are among the Foundation's key campaigns. Dr. Anderson writes a regular column and organizes conferences and lectures on subjects core to the Foundation's mission. Her most recent project was advising on the development of Underwriting Efficiency: A Mortgage Lender's Handbook for realizing energy and water efficiency opportunities in multifamily housing.
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Keynote Presenter:
Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on environmental and energy law and directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is also Chair of the Faculty of Columbia's Earth Institute.
Before joining the Columbia faculty in January 2009, he was partner in charge of the 110-lawyer New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP. He practiced environmental law in New York City full time from 1979 to 2008 and tried numerous cases and argued many appeals in federal and state courts and administrative tribunals. He formerly chaired the American Bar Association's 10,000-member Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. He has served as a member of the executive committees of the boards of the Environmental Law Institute and the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
Gerrard is author or editor of eleven books, two of which were named Best Law Book of the Year by the Association of American Publishers. His most recent book is Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (with Jody Freeman) (2d ed. 2014).
Moderator:
Amy Harder covers energy and climate change for Axios, and writes a weekly column called Harder Line. In her column and elsewhere, she reports on trends and exclusive scoops, while also analyzing the news driving the nation's debate about energy and climate. Her coverage includes congressional legislation, regulations, lobbying, and international policy actions affecting the United States.
Previously, she covered similar issues for The Wall Street Journal, based out of its Washington, D.C., bureau. She is regularly sought out to speak and participate in energy events, including moderating and participating in panel discussions and giving speeches in Washington and throughout the country. She has appeared on CSPAN, MSNBC, the Charlie Rose Show and NPR, among other media outlets. Earlier in her career, she also covered energy and other issues for National Journal, based in Washington, D.C. She is originally from Washington State and received a B.A. in journalism with honors from Western Washington University.
Panelists:
Doreen Harris is the Director of the Large-Scale Renewables team at the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA). Ms. Harris is responsible for managing the centralized long term procurement of utility-scale renewable resources in New York under the Clean Energy Standard as well as oversight of future policy design, program rules, and market development mechanisms, including NYSERDA's interactions with New York's obligated Load Serving Entities.
Ms. Harris leads a strategic effort to spur responsible and cost effective development of New York's Offshore Wind resource through the execution of New York's Offshore Wind Master Plan and its integration into the Clean Energy Standard. Ms. Harris is also responsible for driving the Clean Energy Standard's strategic execution with New York's energy markets, including the ongoing operation and enhancement of the New York Generation Attribute Tracking System. Ms. Harris received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a Master of Business Administration from the University at Albany.
Lars Andreas Sunde is Head of Project Development for the NY Wind Farm Project, Statoil USA has been with Statoil for 34 years.
He has held VP and management positions in all areas of the value chain from exploration to field development, project execution, international E&P activities, business development, gas sales. He has headed up Statoil's offices in Canada, Alaska and Brazil and worked 11 years in international postings in US (FL,TX,AK), UK, Canada and Brazil. The last few years he has been managing major offshore development projects within oil and gas and renewables.
Mr. Sunde has a Masters Degree in Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
Anne Reynolds is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACE NY), an Albany-based nonprofit organization formed in 2006 to promote clean and renewable energy and energy efficiency. Ms. Reynolds has over 20 years of experience in the energy and environmental arena. Most recently she served as a Deputy Commissioner at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), in the role of chief financial and operations officer.
At DEC she previously served as Assistant Commissioner for Policy and Planning, which included legislative affairs, and the Director of the Commissioner's Policy Office. Previously, Ms. Reynolds was the Director of the Air and Energy Program at Environmental Advocates of New York, and successfully lobbied for the establishment of New York's Renewable Portfolio Standard, investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and the creation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
She has consulted to the wind energy industry, and coordinated a Wind Power Education Project at Pace Energy and Climate Center. She has also held the positions of Environmental Scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Associate Scientist at the Tellus Institute for Energy and Environmental Strategies. Ms. Reynolds holds a Master of Environmental Studies from Yale University and a BS in Biology and Environmental Studies from Tufts University.
Kit Kennedy Director, Energy & Transportation Program, Natural Resources Defense Counsel, oversees many NRDC projects relating to energy efficiency, renewable energy, and global-warming solutions. She serves on the board of the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, and from 2009 to 2013, she was the Timothy B. Atkeson Clinical Visiting Environmental Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she directed the Yale Environmental Protection Clinic. From 2007 to 2010, she served as Special Deputy Attorney General for Environmental Protection in the Office of the New York State Attorney General, where she directed the Environmental Protection Bureau. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She is based in New York City.
Edward C. Anthes-Washburn serves as the Port Director and Executive Director of the Port of New Bedford, MA, the nation's #1 fishing port by value. Before becoming the Executive Director in 2015, Ed served as the Deputy Port Director and Director of Operations dating back to 2010. Since 2016, Ed has served as the Chairman of the American Association of Port Authorities' (AAPA) Maritime Economic Development Committee and is the Secretary of the Port Council of the Steamship Authority since 2011.
Ed is also a Research Fellow and Board Member at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies and is a Strategic Advisor to IoT Impact LABS and a non-profit startup called Blue Water Metrics. He received a B.S. in Urban Studies from Cornell University and a M.S. in Public Affairs from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Ed lives in New Bedford with his wife Pamela, son Charlie and dog Garth, where he spends his free time hiking, skiing, fishing, kayaking and developing New England-style barbeque, a New England clambake combined with southern barbeque.
