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SECOND
ANNUAL GLOBAL REGULATORY NETWORK CONFERENCE
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RAJNISH BARUA Director, Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) Division, Maryland Public Service Commission Email: rbarua@psc.state.md.us Rajnish Barua is the director of the Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) Division at the Maryland Public Service Commission (MD-PSC). He has over 17 years of experience in the energy field, including the last 10 years in the utility regulation. Some of his current responsibilities are to recommend certification of electric and natural gas suppliers, draft the Annual Ten-Year Plan of Maryland's Electric Companies and the (biennial) Electric Supply Adequacy Report, and examine requests for certificates of public convenience and necessity from new electric generators. He also represents the MD-PSC in matters related to the PJM Interconnection, LLC (the regional transmission operator) and coordinates activities, meetings, and discussions between the regional state utility commissioners and the PJM. Raj has also been very active in interacting with delegations from South Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa, and has participated in technical conferences in Romania, India, Egypt, and Namibia. He is the lead staff member for MD-PSC during its current exchange program with the Delhi (India) Electricity Regulatory Commission. He specialized in energy policy and received a doctorate from the University of Delaware, and taught a graduate-level course in electricity regulatory policy and technology planning. He is currently a member of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Electricity Staff Sub-Committee and vice-chair of the International Relations Staff Subcommittee
Mr. FREDERICK
F. BUTLER Commissioner Butler was nominated by then Governor Christine Whitman to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) on February 26, 1999, confirmed by the State Senate and sworn into office on March 22, 1999. On May 8, 2003 Governor McGreevey nominated him to a full six-year term on the NJBPU and he was re-confirmed by the Senate on June 23, 2003. He has sat as
presiding Commissioner on hearings addressing several dimensions of
restructuring for Electricity and Natural Gas Unbundling, Comprehensive
Resource Analysis of Energy Programs, Customer Account Services (metering
and billing), and Telecommunications, including Unbundled Network Elements
Rates, Verizon's Plan for Alternative Regulation, and Authorization
to Market Long Distance (Section 271) Service. From 1991 to 1999, he was Executive Director of the New Jersey General Assembly Democratic office, while his party was first in the majority and later in the minority. He joined the Assembly Democratic staff in 1982 as Assistant Director of Budget and Fiscal Analysis. He was Budget Director from 1984 to 1990 and in 1990 was named Deputy Executive Director. From 1979 to 1982, Mr. Butler was Deputy Director of the New Jersey Commission on Capital Budgeting and Planning in the Department of the Treasury. From 1976 to 1979, he served as a member of the Research Faculty of the Eagleton Institute of Politics' Center for Legislative Research and Service at Rutgers, the State University. While at the Center, he worked with legislators and staff in a number of states including New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana and Florida. He was an active member of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Council of State Governments. In 1981, Mr. Butler was elected Councilman in the Borough of Dunellen, Middlesex County, and served until 1984. He was an elected Democratic County Committeeman in the Borough of Dunellen and later in the Township of Plainsboro. He served as Democratic Municipal Chairman in both municipalities. From 1987 to 2001 he was a member of the Plainsboro Planning Board and served as its Vice Chairman in 1999 and 2000. He has been an active member and Board Trustee of both the New Jersey Choral Art Society and the Princeton Pro Music. Mr. Butler was a founding Trustee of the First Southern State Bank and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Conestoga Title Insurance Company. He has been active in other social, civic and cultural organizations. Mr. Butler was born July 7, 1946, in Jersey City. He graduated from the Linden New Jersey public schools in 1964, received a Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages and Political Science from Villanova University in 1968, and earned a Master's degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1973. He taught in the Washington, D.C., public schools from 1969 to 1972 and was a teacher in the Bi-Lingual School Project from 1970 to 1972. From 1973 to 1979 he participated in the Ph.D. program in political science at Rutgers University. Mr. Butler and his wife, Carol Soban Butler, have one son, Ethan, born in 1971.
Dr. ALIOUNE
FALL
Mr. DAVID W.
HADLEY David W. Hadley was appointed to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission on February 9, 2000, by Governor Frank O'Bannon. A Democrat, Hadley was appointed to serve the remainder of Richard "Dick" Klein's term, when Klein retired. Reappointed in 2002, Commissioner Hadley's term expires January 2006. Prior to his appointment to the Commission, Hadley served as an executive officer for the Indiana AFL-CIO. He also has served as a business development specialist with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. Commissioner Hadley worked as a union coal miner where he held numerous leadership positions and served as a legislative affairs representative for the United Mine Workers of America. He also was a former high school social studies teacher. Hadley earned a master's degree in secondary education from the University of Evansville. He holds an undergraduate degree in social science education from Indiana State University. Hadley received post-graduate training through the U. S. Department of Labor and the University of Southern Indiana. Active in the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Hadley is a member of the Gas Committee, Finance and Technology Committee, the International Committee and serves as Chairman of the NARUC Clean Coal Technology Partnership with the Department of Energy. Hadley also serves on the Public Advisory Board for the Gas Technology Institute and on the Board of Directors for the Organization of MISO States. Commissioner Hadley and his wife Linda reside outside of Boonville, Indiana.
Dr. DONALD HERTZMARK Donald Hertzmark is an international energy specialist with more than 25 years of experience in energy planning and economic analysis. Dr. Hertzmark has worked for governments, private companies, and international organizations in over 60 countries world wide to assess markets and projects, build institutional capacities for energy sector restructuring, design and evaluate energy programs and projects, identify sources of financing, and price energy products. He has assisted clients in assessing and financing refinery, LNG and power plant investments in Asia, Europe, South America, Africa and the Former Soviet Union and has negotiated contract terms with offtake purchasers, fuel suppliers and banks. Dr. Hertzmark also has worked extensively in upstream contracts and strategy, assisting both producers and governments on contract terms, regulations and sectoral restructuring. Dr. Hertzmark has extensive Asian experience, having lived in Thailand and Indonesia in the 1980s and continuing extensive regional involvement through the present. His current projects include the full scope of energy sector interests: LNG, private power and electricity restructuring, oil and gas producer incentives, oil product pricing and investment, and gas market development. Recently, Dr. Hertzmark has assisted clients seeking to construct and manage power and gas facilities in South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa and has assisted clients regarding energy-related environmental issues in China and Mexico. Dr. Hertzmark has taught short courses on private sector energy development and energy economics and project evaluation to the staffs of the African Development Bank and the World Bank. He has helped state electricity companies establish frameworks for private power projects and power sector restructuring and privatization. Dr. Hertzmark holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics. He is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, where he teaches a course on the economics of oil and energy.
Mr. SILVESTER
H HIBAJENE I am currently the Executive Director of the Energy Regulation Board in Zambia. I took up this position in June 2003. Prior to that I worked as the Technical Director in the same organisaition from December 2000 to May 2003. However, I joined the Energy Regulation Board in October 1999 as Technical Advisor to the Board of the institution. Prior to joining the Energy Regulation Board, I worked for 16 years at the Ministry of Energy and Water Development which I joined in August 1983 as an Engineer. While at the Ministry, I served in various capacities as Chief Engineer, Deputy Director of the Department of Energy and Deputy Permanent Secretary from 1996 to 1999. I hold a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from the University of Zambia (1983) and Master of Science in Energy from University of Sussex (1987) U.K. I was born on 5th August 1957 and I am married with two sons.
Mr. WENDELL
F. HOLLAND Mr. Holland is
a retired Judge and is presently serving his second non-consecutive
term as Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
His 20-year regulatory expertise includes exposure to virtually all
types of issues involving electrical, water, gas, telephone, railroad
and transportation utilities. He has focused on the economic aspects
of regulation, electric restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. DIANE MUNNS Diane Munns has
served as a member of the three-member Iowa Utilities Board since her
appointment in June of 1999 following 15 years of service as a regulatory
attorney. She was appointed Chairman of the Board in October of 2001.
Her current term ends April 30, 2009.
Mr. ANGEL SEMERDJIEV
Mr. SISEHO CHIBEYA
SIMASIKU Mr. Simasiku has extensive experience of more than twenty years in the engineering field of which the last eleven years have been at policy and regulatory level in the energy sector. He started his career lecturing at the University of Zambia, School of Engineering. After working for a number of other organisations in Zambia he returned to Namibia to work at the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication before joining the Ministry of Mines and Energy. He started at the Ministry in 1993 as a Chief Energy Research. His focus was to promote renewable energy development, resulting in a chapter on renewables being included in the Energy Policy of Namibia. He was later promoted to the position of Director of Energy where he was the initiator of the drafting of the Energy Policy and the integrated approach to energy development. He was eventually appointed to the position of Permanent Secretary or Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry. His key responsibilities amongst others constituted the following: providing strategic vision and leadership to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, initiating and translating policy and policy directives, initiating and administration of the National Energy Policy; ensuring a good and favourable private sector investment climate in the Energy sector; inter-facing with energy and mining sector stakeholders; initiating the development and integration of policies on the renewable energy sector into the National Energy Policy. He is at present the Chairman of the Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa (RERA). He has chaired and been on various boards of public and private companies. Has attended various conferences, workshops and seminars on energy and mining. Has played key role in many SADC energy projects and is now member of the Namibian National Energy Council (NEC).
Dr. LEENA SRIVASTAVA Dr Srivastava is holding additional charge as Dean, Faculty of Policy and Planning, TERI School of Advanced Studies since June 2000 where she is teaching Doctoral courses on Energy Policy and Planning and Infrastructure Economics. She has a PhD. in Energy Economics from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. She has a number of publications to her credit and is on the Editorial Boards of various international journals dealing with energy and environment issues.
Ms. KIM WISSMAN First hired at the PUCO in 1979 as a Rate Analyst in the Utilities Department, responsible for rate case preparation, cost of service studies, contract and tariff approval and cogeneration matters. In 1986, Kim became the Electric Officer responsible for staff performance and policy on regulatory issues concerning rates, tariffs, contracts, cost of service studies, management performance and financial audits on company fuel procurement practices and cost recovery. In 1992, Kim was appointed Chief of the Power Siting Section of the Commission Offices and Executive Director of the Ohio Power Siting Board, responsible for siting major utility facilities in the state of Ohio including gas and electric transmission lines and generating stations, oversight of staff and coordination of Board regarding certificates of public convenience and necessity of such facilities, policy guidance in independent transmission system operators, regional cooperative efforts, and restructuring considerations. Kim was designated as Chief of the Facilities, Siting and Environmental Analysis Division in September, 1998. Along with oversight and policy guidance of her previous duties, some additional duties now include activities regarding policy analysis of federal and state environmental laws and rules impacting the cost and quality of generation, transmission and distribution of energy to Ohio customers, reliability oversight with regard to security and adequacy of service, and administration of the Ohio Biomass Energy Program. While Kim still
holds the Executive Director position on the Ohio Power Siting Board,
most recently, Kim was appointed Deputy Director of the Utilities Department.
In that role, she has responsibility for oversight of the Facilities,
Siting and Environmental Analysis Division and the Policy and Market
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