Dr. 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

Prof. ANTON EBERHARD
Professor, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
Email: eberhard@gsb.uct.ac.za

Prof. Eberhard teaches executive courses in the management of reform and regulation of infrastructure industries in Africa. He also teaches a Masters Programme in Energy Markets and Governance. His main focus has been on the restructuring of the electricity supply industry and the creation of new electricity markets and regulatory frameworks to advance economic, social and environmental objectives. He is on the Board of the National Electricity Regulator of South Africa.

Prof. Eberhard has initiated and directed a plethora of energy research projects over the past 20 years and is the author of more than 70 research publications. He founded and directed the Energy and Development Research Centre at the University of Cape Town between 1989 and 1999. He is a Foundation Member of the South African Academy of Science and serves on numerous Councils and Boards. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Economic Regulation and Governance.

Mr. CLIVE FERREIRA
Managing Director, Fieldstone Africa (Pty) Ltd.
Email: clive@fpcg.co.za

Clive Ferreira is a founding member and the Managing Director of Fieldstone Africa (Pty) Ltd, an independent international financial advisory company specializing in Energy and Infrastructure. Mr. Ferreira has eighteen years experience in corporate and project finance. He holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Stellenbosch University, a degree in Commerce from the University of South Africa and a M.B.A. (Finance) from the University of Oregon.

Mr. Ferreira has actively been involved on projects in a number of African countries including, South Africa, Zambia. Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria and Ghana to name a few. Some of the projects Mr. Ferreira have been working on include: The privatization of Uganda Electricity Board; advising the Government on Mozambique on the restructuring of Cahora Bassa; advising the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council on the formation of the Kelvin IPP and the privatization of Metrogas; and the formation of new IPP hydro power plants in Zambia.

Prof. THOMAS C. HELLER
Professor of International Legal Studies, Stanford University
Email: theller@stanford.edu

Prof. Thomas Heller currently holds the position of Lewis Talbot & Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies at Stanford University. His areas of specialization being: Trans-national Business Law, International Environmental Law, International Political Economy, Regional Integration, Legal Theory, Taxation & Public Finance

His employment history is extensive as follows:
o Fellow, International Legal Center, Bogota, Colombia, 1968-70; Law and Modernization, Yale, 1970-71
o Member of the faculty, University of Wisconsin, 1971-79
o Co-Director, Center for Public Representation, Madison, WI, 1976-77
o Visiting Professor, Center for Law and Economics, University of Miami, 1977-78; Stanford, 1978-79
o Member of the Stanford faculty since 1979; director, Overseas Studies Program, 1985-92; Deputy Director, Institute for International Studies, 1989-92 (affiliated professor since 1993); Shelton Professor, Law School, 1996-; Associate Dean, Law School, 1997- 2001
o Kellogg National Fellow, 1981-
o Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, UC-Irvine, 1989
o Jean Monnet Visiting Professor, European University Institute, 1992-93, 1996-99
o Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, 1998

Prof. Heller is well published in his field and has authored a number of books along with journal papers.

Dr. DONALD HERTZMARK
CORE International
Email: donhertz@bellatlantic.net

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.

Dr. LAWRENCE MUSABA
Co-ordination Center, Southern African Power Pool
Email: musaba@sapp.co.zw

Dr. Lawrence Musaba got his Bachelor of Engineering Degree, with Distinction, from the University of Zambia in 1989. He then went on to get his Masters Degree in Power Engineering and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST, England) in 1991 and 1996 respectively.

Dr. Musaba has worked for the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines as Senior Electrical Engineer, Midlands Power International (Birmingham, UK) as Assistant Project Development Manager and the University of Zambia as Lecturer and Head of the Department.

He joined the Southern African Power Pool in June 2000 and from February 2002, was appointed the Co-ordination Centre Manager. He has been instrumental in the development of a SADC regional and competitive power market.

Dr. Musaba is a Chartered Electrical Engineer of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of the United Kingdom, a Member of the Engineering Institution of Zambia and also a Registered Engineer.

Ms. SANDRA WALDSTEIN
Senior Policy Advisor, Vermont Public Service Board
Email: swaldstein@psb.state.vt.us

Sandra Waldstein is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Vermont Public Service Board. She has worked on energy issues in the U.S., Eastern Europe, and India. At the Board she has primary responsibility for issues related to the regional electricity market in New England including revisions to market rules, market monitoring, and system planning. In collaboration with her regulatory colleagues in the other New England states, she organizes and prepares pleadings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on issues of concern to the New England state commissions. In addition, she is currently chair of the Staff Subcommittee on Electricity for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).