Severin Borenstein                          

Keynote Speaker on Monday, December 3, 2007

Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, Director of the University of California Energy Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.  He is also an affiliated professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. He received his A.B. from U.C. Berkeley in 1978 and Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1983.  His research focuses on business competion, strategy, and regulation.  He has published extensively on the airline, oil and gasoline, and electricity markets, as well as on insurance, e-commerce, mining, natural gas and other industries.  Borenstein was a member of the Governing Board of the California Power Exchange from 1997 until 2003 and served on the California Attorney General's gasoline price taskforce in 1999-2000.

During 1999-2002, he was co-director of NBER's research project on e-commerce.  Most recently, his research has focused on the evolving airline industry, real-time retail electricity pricing, and the economics of renewable energy and climate change.

Kathe Andrews-Cramer

Keynote Speaker on Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Kathe Andrews-Cramer currently serves as Vice President for Strategic Integration of the recently funded DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, which is launching its R&D efforts to solve major roadblocks on the path to cost effective biofuels in Berkeley.  The Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI) is a partnership between three universities and three national laboratories, led by Jay Keasling and Lawrence Berkeley Lab.  JBEI will apply systems biology and synthetic biology approaches to better understand the structure of biomass and how to covert it to ethanol and other advanced biofuels.  Dr. Andrews-Cramer received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and served on the faculty in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis before entering the private sector in pharmaceutical discovery.  Prior to joining Sandia National Laboratories, where she comes to the JBEI team as a Manager in Computational and Molecular Biosciences, she served in a number of biotechnology companies in leadership roles that required a the integration R&D knowledge, innovative technical approaches, and the execution of aggressive business development strategies.