Leaders in Energy and Economics Will Meet April 11 to Discuss Fueling
the World’s Energy Needs
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 2, 2012--
At The
New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference on April 11, global
leaders in energy and economics will gather to discuss the critical
question of how to meet the world’s staggering energy needs. Through a
wide-ranging scope of debates, panel discussions, keynote addresses,
case studies and brainstorming sessions, leaders in energy will weigh
the principal challenges and opportunities in fueling the global future.
“This conference will bring together thought leaders from around the
world to talk about the future of global energy and its supply,” said
Gerald Marzorati, editor for The New York Times who is responsible for
creating The Times’s conferences. “The incredible response we’ve seen to
this event underscores the importance of having these very necessary
conversations.”
GE is founding sponsor of The New York Times Energy for Tomorrow
conference.
Key conference events will include:
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Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research
Associates, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and celebrated energy
economist, will explore what the energy landscape might look like in
2030 during the Opening Keynote.
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Dr. Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy and co-winner of the
Nobel Prize for Physics (1997), will join New York Times Op-Ed
columnist Thomas Friedman in a special Columnist Conversation.
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José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, chief planning officer of the
state government of Bahia, Brazil, and former C.E.O of Petrobras, will
deliver the afternoon’s Keynote Address.
Other renowned speakers at the conference will include:
Lester R. Brown, founder and president of Earth Policy Institute;
Carol
Browner, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American
Progress;
Lee Edwards, president and chief executive of
Virent, Inc.;
Marvin Fertel, president and chief executive
of the Nuclear Energy Institute;
Jochen Flasbarth, president
of the German Federal Environment Agency;
Robert A. Hefner III,
founder and owner of the GHK Company;
Amy Myers Jaffe,
director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute;
John
Krenicki Jr., vice chairman of GE, and president and chief executive
of GE Energy;
Michael Levi, Senior Fellow for energy and the
environment at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and director of
the CFR program on energy security and climate change;
Dave
McCurdy, president and chief executive of the American Gas
Association;
Steve Nadel, executive director of the American
Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy;
T. Boone Pickens,
chairman of BP Capital Management;
Jim Prendergast,
executive director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE); Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace;
Jim
Rogers, chairman, president and chief executive of Duke Energy; and
Manuel
Camacho Solis, Mexico's former secretary of Urban Development and
the Environment, and former mayor of Mexico City.
New York Times moderators will include:
Richard L. Berke, assistant managing editor;
Helene Cooper,
White House correspondent;
Thomas Friedman, Op-Ed columnist;
Clifford
Krauss, energy correspondent;
Joe Nocera, Op-Ed
columnist;
Ashley Parker, Metro reporter; and
Jeff
Zeleny, national political correspondent.
The conference, which is in collaboration with Richard Attias and
Associates, will kick off at The TimesCenter on Wednesday, April 11,
with a networking breakfast at 8 a.m. ET and conclude with a reception
at 5:30 p.m. ET. The TimesCenter is located at 242 W. 41st
St. Admission to the conference is by invitation only.
To submit a request for invitation and to learn more about the
conference, including the speakers and agenda, visit www.NYTEnergyforTomorrow.com.
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