Roger Gale to Speak at Annual Conference on America's Electric Future

America’s Electric Future:
The Next Twenty-Five Years

Roger Gale, president & CEO of GF Energy, will be a speaker at NEPPA's 2011 Annual Conference, Emerging Technologies and Public Power. He will provide an overview of the major trends, technologies and political realities which will shape America’s electric utility industry in the next quarter-century.

He has managed and participated in numerous senior executive planning and strategic business design processes in North America, Europe and Asia. He is well-known globally as a leading corporate strategist and publisher of Electricity Outlook. In addition, he has expertise in corporate governance for large enterprises.

He is widely quoted in leading business publications and appears on TV. He is a frequent public speaker at industry and in-house events. Much of his work focuses on the future of nuclear power and involves work for major vendors and electric power companies globally.

Roger began consulting in 1998 after working in senior positions for the US Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was an assistant to the secretary of energy and the EPA administrator and served as Director of External Affairs at FERC. Prior to working for the US government he lived in Japan where he covered energy issues for a number of publications. Since entering consulting in 1998, he has developed skills in successfully managing top-level corporate business development processes working with boards, shareholders and senior executives. He was CEO of PHB Hagler Bailly and headed PA Consulting's global energy practice before starting GF Energy in 2001.

Roger has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the Board of Directors of Adams Express, Petroleum and Resources Corp., Ormat and the US Energy Association.