Symposia Speaker Biographies

Daniel R. Abbasi  is the Associate Dean for Public Affairs and Strategic Initiatives at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Director of the Environmental Attitudes and Behavior Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. 

Prior to his coming to Yale, he worked as a distance education executive in the for-profit education sector with Washington Post Co./Kaplan, Inc., head of business development and sales at a venture-backed software firm, and as a strategy professional in the media sector at Time Warner. He also served as Senior Adviser in the Office of Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993-1996, working on trade, investment, sustainable development, and outreach. 

Mr. Abbasi also has experience as an environmental issues specialist on a winning presidential campaign, as an environmental reporter for Earth Times, and as a project manager at the World Resources Institute. He has also been a dispute resolution specialist for the American Arbitration Association, and an academic administrator at Stanford University. 

Mr. Abbasi holds a BA and an MBA from Harvard and an MA in Political Science from Stanford.

Dr. Patrick R. Atkins is responsible for Alcoa's environmental policy and global environmental programs. He serves on various lead teams and chairs global advisory committees that provide input to Alcoa's corporate environment, health and safety programs.

Dr. Atkins joined Alcoa in Pittsburgh in 1972, after serving as a professor in Environmental Health Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught engineering, industrial hygiene and ecology courses and directed MS and PhD research projects. He became manager-environmental control at Alcoa in 1973, director-environmental control in 1980, director of environmental affairs in 1991 and began his present position in 1995. He also served as Alcoa's chief environmental engineer from 1982 to 1984.

Author of over 50 technical articles and editor of two books, Dr. Atkins is a registered professional engineer in the states of Texas and Pennsylvania and is an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, teaching industrial waste treatment technology.  Dr. Atkins is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania. He represents Alcoa on the environmental committees of the International Primary Aluminum Institute, the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers and other national and international groups. In addition, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources.

Dr. Atkins received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1964 and M.S. in environmental engineering from Stanford University a year later. He also earned a Ph.D. in 1968 from Stanford specializing in environmental engineering.

Michele Blazek is the Director of Technology and Environment for AT&T and manages AT&T's energy and  environmental Researach efforts including  Design for Environment/Industrial Ecology R&D efforts. Since 1991, Ms. Blazek has been involved in a wide array of environmental management programs for AT&T's worldwide operations and provides technical support for all aspects of environmental policy  and external reporting (energy policy/efficiency ,   Design for Environment, Industrial Ecology, electronics recycling, alternate technologies , telework ). Key projects include the comparative environmental life cycle assessment research of telecommunications systems of two cities: Stockholm and Sacramento; EH&S review of new equipment introduction into the network; strategic research on reliability and environmentally preferable electricity backup generation and storage, takeback contracts for electronic equipment, and environmental impact assessment of telecommunications services such as telework and Internet  

Ms. Blazek lectures widely on issues such as energy policy and efficiency, environmental implications of IT, environmental life cycle assessment, and pollution prevention. Prior to AT&T, she worked as an environmental engineer for the Hazardous Waste Division of Killam Associates, Millburn, N.J. Ms Blazek has a B.S. in Civil Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Marilyn Brown is the Deputy Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program. During her 15 years at ORNL, she has researched the design and impacts of policies and programs aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies. Prior to coming to Oak Ridge, Dr. Brown was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars on technological change, resource geography, and statistical analysis and modeling, she received two NSF grants and funding from other sources to support her research on the diffusion of energy innovations.

Dr. Brown sits on the boards of several energy and environmental organizations, including EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors and the Alliance to Save Energy, and on the editorial boards of several journals. She has served on advisory committees to NSF, EPA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, and the Iowa Energy Center. She is also a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy and is a Certified Energy Manager.

Dr. Brown has a Ph.D. in geography from the Ohio State University where she was a University Fellow, a Masters Degree in resource planning from the University of Massachusetts, and a BA in political science (with a minor in mathematics) from Rutgers University. She has authored more than 140 publications and has received awards for her research from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Association of American Geographers, the Technology Transfer Society, and the Association of Women in Science.



Guy F. Caruso is Administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistical agency within the United States Department of Energy (DOE) that provides policy-independent data, forecasts and analyses regarding energy.  He was appointed to the position in 2002.  Mr. Caruso has acquired over 30 years of energy experience, with particular emphasis on topics relating to energy markets, policy and security.

He first joined DOE as a Senior Energy Economist in the Office of International Affairs and soon became the Director of the Office of Market Analysis. Other leadership roles held by Mr. Caruso during his tenure at DOE include: Director, Office of Oil and Natural Gas Policy, Office of Domestic and International Energy Policy and Director, Office of Energy Emergency Policy Evaluation. Prior to joining DOE, Mr. Caruso worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an International Energy Economist in the Office of Economic Research.

Mr. Caruso recently served as the Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Initiative Project, under the Energy and National Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) a position he had held since 1998. CSIS is a private, nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on, and policy solutions, to current and emerging global issues.

Moreover, before joining EIA, Mr. Caruso was also the Director of the National Energy Strategy (NES) project for the United States Energy Association (USEA). During this time, Mr. Caruso spearheaded the USEA publication "Toward a National Energy Strategy," which was released in February 2001 and a follow up study entitled, "National Energy Strategy Post 9/11" which was released in July 2002.

Mr. Caruso has worked at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), first as the Head of the Oil Industry Division where he was responsible for analyzing world oil supply/demand and developments in the oil industry; and later, as Director of the Office of non-members Countries where he directed studies of energy-related developments.

Mr. Caruso holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an M.S. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. He also earned a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University.

Reverend Richard Cizik is Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals. His primary responsibilities include editing publications such as NAE Washington Insight, directing NAE's Washington Insight Briefing and Christian Student Leadership Conferences, setting its policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, as well as serving as a national spokesman on issues of concern to evangelicals.

Reverend Cizik has been involved in international religious liberty causes for the Association since 1980, when he urged policy-makers to add "religion" to the annual human rights report.. He proposed to the Reagan Administration a major address on religious freedom and the nuclear arms race that eventuated in the "Evil Empire" address of President Reagan to the NAE annual convention in March 1983. One of the principal drafters of NAE's 1996 "Statement of Conscience on Worldwide Religious Persecution," Reverend Cizik is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and has appeared on CNN "HEADLINE NEWS," C-SPAN, PBS "Ethics & Religion News Weekly," WORLD NET, Voice of America, and many other media outlets. He is regularly called upon as an expert witness on human rights and religious freedom before professional groups, and in meetings with officials of the National Security Council in the White House, the State Department and Congress. In 1996, he served as professional staff to the "Religious Leader's Delegation to the People's Republic of China," at the invitation of President Clinton. In 2002, Reverend Cizik was a participant in Climate Forum 2002, at Oxford, England, which produced the "Oxford Declaration" on global warming.

His background includes a B.A. (cum laude) in Political Science from Whitworth College; an M.A. in Public Affairs from the George Washington University School of Public & International Affairs (now called the Elliot School of International Affairs); a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary, and overseas studies at the National Political Science University, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Taipei Language Institute, Taipei, Taiwan. Post-graduate research awards include a Scottish-Rite Graduate Fellowship to George Washington University and a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship to the Republic of China. He is the author of over one hundred published articles and editorials, author and editor of The High Cost of Indifference (Regal Books), a contributor to On Christian Freedom (University Press of America), the Dictionary of Christianity in America (Inter-Varsity Press), and recently started a regular column for national circulation on religion and public policy.

Reverend Cizik was ordained in 1992 to a specific ministry calling in public affairs with the National Association of Evangelicals by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (one of 51 member denominations of NAE).


 Stephen DeCanio is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  

Previous to joining the faculty of UCSG, he has served as Senior Staff Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.   He has been a member of the Economic Options Panel convened by the United Nations Environment Programme to review economic aspects of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, and is currently Co-Chair of the Montreal Protocol's Agricultural Economics Task Force of the Technical and Economics Assessment Panel.  

Dr. DeCanio's research focuses on the economics of climate change, protection of the stratospheric ozone layer, factors affecting the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies, and the impacts of greenhouse gas reduction policies. In October, 1996 he won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award, "for extraordinary contributions to global environmental protection."  His most recent book, Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique, is available from Palgrave-Macmillan. He is also one of the founders of UCSB's Computational Laboratories Group.

He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California-Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

Patricia Dehmer has served as the Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences since November 1995.  Her background includes over 25 years of research experience in the areas of experimental atomic, molecular, and optical physics; chemical physics; multiphoton processes; and nonlinear optical processes.  She produced approximately 125 refereed articles, 110 conference presentations, and 50 invited talks.  Dr. Dehmer was selected one of the 100 Most Outstanding Young Scientists in the United States by Science Digest Magazine (1984), and she received the University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory (1989).   Dr. Dehmer was honored with the Meritorious Presidential Executive Rank Award (2000) and the Distinguished Presidential Executive Rank Award (2003) for her exemplary service in the Department of Energy.

Dr. Dehmer received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, and her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Chicago.  

Dr. Bob Edgar is general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, the leading U.S. organization in the movement for Christian unity. Thirty-five Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historically African-American and peace communions, to which approximately 45 million congregants belong, work together in the Council to promote unity and to serve churches and people worldwide. 

Dr. Edgar took office January 1, 2000, at a time of great opportunity, as the 50-year-old Council began to reshape its life and mission. Under his leadership, the Council is focusing its energies on major initiatives in the areas of overcoming poverty, protecting the environment, fostering interfaith understanding, and building international peace.  

An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Edgar came to the Council from Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, Calif., where he was president from 1990-2000. During that decade, he brought a school on the brink of collapse back to institutional health, confirming his reputation as an optimist, a futurist, and a coalition builder who enjoys meeting a challenge.

Dr. Edgar is well known for his service as a six-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was the first Democrat in more than 120 years to be elected from the heavily Republican Seventh District of Pennsylvania. His election and service demonstrated the bipartisan, ecumenical quality that has marked his whole life and ministry.  

Serving in Congress from 1974 to 1987, he led efforts to improve public transportation, authored the community Right to Know provisions of Super Fund legislation, co-authored the new GI bill for the all-volunteer service, fought wasteful water projects and supported environmental goals. Among other appointments, he served as chair of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future (1982-86) and as a member of the Select Committee on Assassinations (1976-78) that investigated the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and President John F. Kennedy. In 1987, true to his belief in term limits, he voluntarily stepped down from office.

His wide-ranging career has also included pastorates at United Methodist congregations and stints as a teacher, college chaplain, community organizer, and director of a “think tank” on national security issues.

An active volunteer, Dr. Edgar serves on the boards of several organizations, including Independent Sector, the National Coalition for Health Care, Common Cause, and the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. He serves on the board of directors of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, an independent, non-profit organization that is a principal resource for Congress on environmental and energy issues.

Dr. Edgar received a bachelor of arts degree from Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa., and a master of divinity degree from the Theological School of Drew University, Madison, N.J. He holds four honorary doctoral degrees.

Many national organizations have recognized his work with awards, including the American Legion, Vietnam Veterans of America and the National Taxpayers Union.

David Elisco is the Vice President Creative Affairs and Series Producer for Sea Studios Foundation.  In his more than fifteen years of experience, Elisco has produced award winning documentary series and outreach projects that span a wide range of science subjects, including Earth system science, evolutionary biology, biodiversity, mathematics, engineering and marine forensics. 

Elisco’s most recent project is the critically acclaimed and honored National Geographic Strange Days on Planet Earth, which stared Academy Award nominee Edward Norton.  Called “PBS for CSI viewers,” by the Seattle Intelligencer, Strange Days shined an important and powerful spot-light on some of the most critical environmental issues of our time.

As part of the senior management team at Sea Studios Foundation, Elisco is helping to develop new strategies to integrate broadcast television, the Internet and live events as a powerful tool for getting people involved in important issues.
 
Elisco received his bachelor’s degree in film production from Pennsylvania State University. He resides in Monterey, California and Hannastown, Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.


Christopher Flavin  is President of the Worldwatch Institute, an international research organization whose focus is an environmentally sustainable future. Worldwatch is recognized for its path-breaking work on the global connections between economic, social, and environmental trends. Flavin is a regular co-author of the Institute's State of the World book, which has been published in 36 languages.  Flavin has helped guide the Institute's development over the past 20 years, serving as Vice President for Research and later as Senior Vice President. He was appointed President in September 2000.

Mr. Flavin's research and writing have focused on the development of an environmentally sustainable economy, with a particular focus on energy. He has written extensively on energy strategies and policies, including renewable sources of energy, electricity restructuring, and the potential for hydrogen. He is co-author of three books on energy, including Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution (WW Norton, 1994), in which he describes the potential shape of a post-petroleum energy economy.

Active in international policy circles on climate change and energy, Mr. Flavin has participated in several historic international conferences, including the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Climate Change Conference in Kyoto Japan in 1997. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and serves on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems as well as the Boards of Directors of the Climate Institute and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. 

Mr. Flavin appears regularly on radio and television, including the BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS's Newshour, and Voice of America. He has also written for a wide range of popular and scholarly periodicals, including The New York Times, Technology Review, The Harvard International Review, and Time Magazine.

Flavin is a native of Monterey California and a cum laude graduate of Williams College, where he studied economics, biology, and environmental studies.

Dr. Robert L. Hirsch is a Senior Energy Program Advisor at SAIC and a consultant in energy, technology, and management. Previously, he was a senior staff member at RAND (energy policy analysis), Executive Advisor at Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (environmental and defense R & D), Vice President of the Electric Power Research Institute, Vice President and Manager of Research and Technical Services for Atlantic Richfield Co. (oil and gas exploration and production), Founder and CEO of APTI (commercial & Defense Department technologies), Manager of Exxon’s synthetic fuels research laboratory, Manager of Petroleum Exploratory Research at Exxon (refining R & D), Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration responsible for renewables, fusion, geothermal and basic research (Presidential Appointment), and Director of fusion research at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and ERDA.

He has served on advisory committees for Department of Energy programs and national laboratories, the General Accounting Office, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Gas Research Institute, and NASA. He holds 14 patents and has over 50 publications.  He is immediate past Chairman of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies, has served on a number of National Research Council committees and is a National Associate of the National Academies.

Dr. Tina Kaarsberg has served as senior staff with the Department of Energy's Policy and International Office since June 2005.  Among her duties there are serving as the Science lead on the 'A-Team' policy review of the DOE's Office of Science, as a senior advisor on the Administration's ClimateVISION program and as a technology advisor to the Climate Change Technology Program.  Dr. Kaarsberg has fifteen years of science and energy policy experience as well as eight years of physics research experience and double digit publications in these areas.

Previously Dr. Kaarsberg worked as a Professional Staff member for the House Energy subcommittee of the Committee on Science where she served as a staff expert on distributed energy, energy efficiency, renewable, climate change technology, and basic science programs at DOE.  She had previously served on the Hill in 1992 (during enactment of the Energy Policy Act) as an American Physical Society (APS) Congressional Fellow for Senator Pete V. Domenici, who now is chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Previously at DOE, Dr. Kaarsberg led the Power Technologies Analysis Collaborative for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.  Prior to her work at the DOE, Dr. Kaarsberg also worked for Sandia National Laboratories, Vista Technologies Inc., and the Northeast-Midwest Institute.  While at the Institute, Dr. Kaarsberg was one of the co-founders of the U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association (USCHPA).

Before coming to Washington D.C. to work on policy, she was a member of the UCLA Physics Department faculty specializing in experimental particle physics.  Dr. Kaarsberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Distinction in physics from Yale University and a master's and doctoral degree in physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  She conducted her thesis research as a visiting research fellow at Cornell University.  

Dr. Kaarsberg is a Fellow of the APS and was elected vice-chair of the APS Forum on Physics and Society.  She also serves as the Council Representative for the Industrial Science and Technology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Willett Kempton is a professor of Marine Policy and Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies.  Dr. Kempton is also the Senior Policy Scientist in Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.  His research interests include Offshore wind, vehicle to grid power, lay environmental beliefs and values, environmental movements, anthropogenic climate change, energy & transportation policy.

Currently, Dr. Kempton is working on a project to study public reactions, policy framework and large scale implementation of offshore wind power.  He is also working with electric vehicles for “Vehicle to Grid” power (see website).

Dr. Kempton receives his B.A. in Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Kempton also has Postdoctoral training in Quantitative Anthropology and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Melanie Kenderdine of Gas Technology Institute (GTI) provides commentary on the natural gas industry and issues related to U.S. energy policy and legislation. With more than two decades of experience in both federal and private energy sectors, she understands and communicates effectively about energy issues and policies, as well as the latest developments in pursuit of natural gas and other energy sources. She is particularly knowledgeable about trends in domestic and world energy supplies and in technologies that will impact energy supply and demand.

Industry is the single largest consumer of natural gas in the United States. But the high cost of natural gas is driving natural gas dependent industries overseas, despite abundant technically recoverable domestic natural gas reserves. Making these reserves more economic to produce and developing efficiency technologies to enhance natural gas consumption are crucial to the nation's industrial base, to residential consumers and to its economic security.

In an age of heightened domestic security, protecting our nation’s energy infrastructure is crucial to protecting our economy. With 1.8 million miles of natural gas pipeline connecting the majority of U.S. homes and workplaces, working with industry and government to secure the infrastructure in ways that are easily integrated into industry is critical. GTI is working with industry and the federal and state governments to ensure that we maintain the security, integrity, safety and reliability of this infrastructure.

Robert Kripowicz has thirty-eight years of experience in the energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment in industry, and the executive and congressional branches of the Federal government. Mr. Kripowicz has been a senior level manager responsible for development and management of projects and programs with resource levels of nearly $ 1 billion a year in complex environments involving partnerships between government and industry. Mr. Kripowicz has extensive background and experience in coal-based systems for power generation, environmental systems and regulations, and alternative fuels. For the past two-and-one-half years Mr. Kripowicz has run his own consulting company and has been involved extensively in State-Federal programs and activities.

EDUCATION
M.B.A., 1970, University of Pittsburgh

B.S. Chemistry, cum laude, 1963, Lafayette College

EXPERIENCE

2002-Present: President, Milestone Consulting, LLC- Mr.Kripowicz provides consulting services in energy related areas to a variety of clients, including national laboratories, associations, state organizations, and industry. He currently is providing technical and management advice on carbon sequestration programs, the development and deployment of efficient and environmentally friendly technologies, and the development of environmental control technology for coal-fired systems in the power industry. He is the Program Director for the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) a cooperative Department of Energy and State program.

2002:Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary, Department of Energy- For six months prior to retiring from the Federal government, Mr. Kripowicz was a senior advisor to the Under Secretary, for policy studies in the fossil energy and global climate change areas, as well as advising him on developing the FY2004 Department of Energy budget in all energy technology areas as well as Science, Environmental Management, and Nuclear Waste Management.

1996-2002: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary/Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Department of Energy- Mr. Kripowicz was responsible for the operations of the Office of Fossil Energy’s research and development programs in coal, oil, and natural gas in partnership with the private sector and academic institutions and for the operations of the Nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves. For over two of these years he was also the acting Assistant Secretary. During his tenure, the Office instituted two groundbreaking programs in energy research; the Vision 21 power generation program which promises very highly efficient use of coal in fossil energy power systems with minimal environmental impact, and the carbon sequestration program which will reduce the contribution of fossil technologies to global warming. Mr. Kripowicz consolidated the management of the Office’s programs, and oversaw the establishment of the National Energy Technology Laboratory. Mr. Kripowicz also fashioned the President’s new Clean Coal Power Initiative, first implemented in FY2002, to provide environmentally sound technology utilizing coal to the utility industry.

1995-1996: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for House Liaison, Department of energy- In this position, Mr. Kripowicz coordinated legislative and budget initiatives and activities of all Department programs with committees and members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Kripowicz worked directly with the Secretary of Energy and the Congress to provide the information to Congress which resulted in the defeat of legislation to abolish the Department of Energy.

1995: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Building Technologies, Department of Energy-Mr. Kripowicz was responsible for research and development on advanced systems and equipment for both residential and commercial applications and the appliance and buildings standards programs. In his short tenure here he helped establish deployment programs with industry for highly efficient residential buildings, and for the rehabilitation of significant blocks of multi–family housing in cooperation with state and local governments.

1977-1981 and 1985-1994: staff member, Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, US House of Representatives- Mr. Kripowicz was responsible for appropriations for Department of Energy programs in fossil energy, energy conservation, energy information, and Petroleum Reserves, as well as energy, scientific, and land management programs of the Department of the Interior. During the initial “energy crisis” years Mr. Kripowicz was responsible for developing appropriations for the synthetic fuels programs of the federal government, the highly successful Clean Coal Technology program, and leasing programs on the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Under his guidance the Congress provided the initial funding for other programs such as the advanced turbine systems program at the Department of Energy and the National Water Quality Assessment program of the Department of the Interior.

1983-1985: Staff Director, Energy Subcommittee, Science Committee, U.S. House of Representatives- Mr. Kripowicz served as the staff director of this subcommittee responsible for authorizing the energy conservation, fossil energy, renewable energy, high energy and nuclear physics and basic science programs of the Department of Energy. Under his auspices the Congress and DOE began the transition to higher energy physics experiments which now dominate the physics research community.

1981-1983: Program development Manager, Mechanical Technology, Inc.- Mr. Kripowicz joined MTI to assist in the commercial development of highly efficient turbine and sterling engine technology. He was also responsible for the marketing of waste heat recovery systems, with emphasis on the pipeline industry.

1973-1977: Various Administrative and Budget positions with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)- Mr. Kripowicz began his government career in the regulatory division of the Atomic Energy Commission, as an assistant to the Deputy Director of Licensing for Fuel Cycle Facilities, and instituted a detailed accounting system for tracking expenditures for license applications. In ERDA, Mr. Kripowicz was the first branch chief of the Fossil Energy Budget Branch, and because of his performance was selected for the government –wide Executive Development Program at the Federal Executive Institute.

1970-1973: Construction Contracts Manager, Consolidated Edison Company- Mr. Kripowicz was responsible for construction contracting for the installation of all utility lines for the company, and developed several management tools for evaluating the performance of the overall purchasing department. Mr. Kripowicz also established a new administrative bureau in the Purchasing Department, and assisted in the reorganization of the Building Services Department.

1967-1970; Financial Planning and Budget Supervisor-NUMEC- Mr. Kripowicz joined this nuclear subsidiary of ARCO as a chemist in the r&d department, and while earning his MBA progressed to manage the administrative functions of the department and ultimately to supervise the financial planning and budget functions of the company. In this latter role he developed a performance evaluation system for the company, and also developed a real-time budget system which provided full accounting, overhead, and profit and loss information not previously available in budgeting in the company.

1964-1967: U.S.Army-France-Mr. Kripowicz served as an officer in France during the time when the US was expelled by President DeGaulle, and was commended for his role in moving the supply functions of the Army from Eastern France to other areas of Europe.

1963-1964:Chemist, Dupont-Upon graduation from college, Mr. Kripowicz served as a chemist at Dupont working on chemical stabilizers for synthetic textile fibers.

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