Hillard Huntington is Executive Director of Stanford University's Energy Modeling Forum, where he compares energy and environmental policy models to improve decisions. He is currently coordinating an international working group on world natural gas markets and trade. He is past-president and senior fellow of the United States Association for Energy Economics, was a member of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Energy Data and served on a joint USA-Russian National Academy of Sciences Panel on energy conservation research and development. Huntington served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa (Liberia) and held positions in the U.S. government and the private sector before coming to Stanford in 1980.

Robert Parkhurst is the Global Environmental Program Manager in Hewlett-Packards (HP) Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH&S) organization. He was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to the California Climate Action Registry Board of Directors. Mr. Parkhurst was a member of the California Climate Change Advisory Committee, a government appointed group which makes recommendations on the most equitable and efficient ways to implement climate change requirements in the state. He co-chaired the Environmental Committee of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, an organization dedicated to addressing major public policy issues affecting the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley.

BinBin Jiang is a master's student with an honors B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She has completed field reasearch and lived in South India for her thesis work in water and land use in sustainable agriculture. She has also travelled to Brazil and China to study the energy system and markets in those countries. BinBin's particular interest is investigating the future development of China's energy sector.

Mark Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University. His principal research interests are related to the forces that act within the earth's crust and their influence on processes related to plate tectonics, earthquakes and oil and gas reservoirs. He is one of Principal Investigators of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) project, which is part of the National Science Foundations EarthScope Program.

Tresidder Cypress 12-1pm MONDAY. Food will be provided!