Where Are We Headed: Technology, Economics, and Policy Panel Session

Barber, Jamie; Pride Brown, Kate; Rondinone, Adam Justin; Simmons, Richard A.; Stulberg, Adam

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Where Are We Headed: Technology, Economics, and Policy Panel Session

dc.contributor.author	Barber, Jamie
dc.contributor.author	Pride Brown, Kate
dc.contributor.author	Rondinone, Adam Justin
dc.contributor.author	Simmons, Richard A.
dc.contributor.author	Stulberg, Adam
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Strategic Energy Institute	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Serve-Learn-Sustain	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of History and Sociology	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Public Service Commission	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-20T21:38:08Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-20T21:38:08Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02-10
dc.description	Presented at the Energy Expo on February 10, 2017 in the Georgia Tech Student Center, 3rd Floor Ballroom.	en_US
dc.description	Jamie Barber is the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Manger at the Georgia Public Service Commission. Jamie graduated from the University of West Georgia in August 1991 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting and in 2009 with a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. She began her career at the Georgia Public Service Commission in November 1993 in the Fiscal Office. She has worked in the Electric Section and the Natural Gas Unit prior to her current role since January 2010 as the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Manger within the Internal Consultants Unit. She is responsible for making policy recommendations on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency issues that come before the Commission.	en_US
dc.description	Dr. Kate Pride Brown is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Pride Brown is a sociologist whose research examines environmental politics and policy in Russia and the United States. She has published on energy efficiency and renewable energy legislation in U.S. state governments, and her current work examines risk and finance in the energy sector. Her work has appeared in Energy Research and Social Science, Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy and other peer-reviewed journals. Her forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, Saving the Sacred Sea, examines local efforts to protect and preserve Lake Baikal in Siberia, the deepest, oldest and largest body of freshwater on Earth.	en_US
dc.description	Dr. Adam Justin Rondinone is a Senior Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Rondinone received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001, and immediately joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a prestigious Wigner Fellow. He conducts his research at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and he is an expert on materials chemistry at the nanoscale. His research is focused on developing novel means to create functional nanomaterials for energy applications. Recent work has explored nanostructured electrochemical catalysts for the conversion of waste to useful products. He has served on various committees in service to ORNL, including two years as a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator Lamar Alexander working on energy and technology issues. He is also the outreach coordinator for the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences.	en_US
dc.description	Richard A. Simmons (Moderator) is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech’s Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) where he oversees large cross-cutting federal energy projects. Richard has recently been appointed to lead “EPICenter,” a new SEI-directed center which will perform studies on energy policy and innovation with a distinctively regional perspective. He is also a part time instructor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Richard received his BS from Georgia Tech, and MS and PhD from Purdue, all in Mechanical Engineering. Richard is a licensed professional engineer (PE) who has more than 20 years of RD&D experience in automotive, advanced materials, and alternative energy and fuels. Rich has served as a technical advisor on the board of two companies and holds multiple patents. From 2009 to 2012, he served a prestigious AAAS science and technology (S&T) policy fellowship at the U.S. Department of State, providing technical analysis on international policy issues related to renewable energy. He has recently authored numerous publications including an openaccess eBook entitled “Understanding the Global Energy Crisis,” several book chapters and journal articles related to transportation energy technology, alternative vehicles and future energy policy strategies.	en_US
dc.description	Dr. Adam Stulberg is Professor and Neal Family Chair; Associate Chair/Research; and Co-Director, Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international security, Russia/Eurasian politics and security affairs, nuclear (non)proliferation, and energy and international security, as well as inter-disciplinary courses on science, technology, and international security policy. His current research focuses on the geopolitics of oil and gas networks, energy security dilemmas and statecraft in Eurasia, Russia and “gray zone” conflicts, new approaches to strategic stability and denuclearization of military arsenals, internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle, and implications of emerging technologies for strategic stability and international security. Dr. Stulberg earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, an M.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan. He is a two-time recipient of the INTA Graduate Student Association’s “Professor of the Year,” and has received the same honor from Sigma Iota Rho, the international affairs undergraduate honor society. Currently, he is an Associate Director and on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Strategic Energy Institute (a GT Institute-wide Center).	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 62:40 minutes	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute and Serve-Learn-Sustain	en_US
dc.format.extent	62:40 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/56653
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Energy Expo	en_US
dc.subject	Economics	en_US
dc.subject	Energy	en_US
dc.subject	Policy	en_US
dc.subject	Technology	en_US
dc.title	Where Are We Headed: Technology, Economics, and Policy Panel Session	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Where We Are Headed,: Technology, Economic, and Policy
dc.title.alternative	Technology, Economics, and Policy
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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