Dr. Bingman is Senior Physicist for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The Program is made up of military and civilian personnel who design, build, operate, and support the U.S. nuclear—powered fleet. Prior to that assignment, Bingman was responsible for overseeing the operation of reactor equipment in more than 100 naval vessels. Bingman's degree in reactor physics is from Northwestern University.

Dr. Bixby is a Senior Nuclear Safety and Management Consultant. After ten years in the private sector, Bixby spent 20 years in the Department of Energy, and four years at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He established and managed the DOE's office at Three Mile Island and was responsible for the implementation of the DOE's activities in support of the cleanup following the nation's only commercial reactor accident.

Dr. Bjorkman is Chief, Structural Mechanics, and Materials Branch Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Office of Nuclear Material and Safeguards for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Bjorkman joined NRC after a distinguished career in the nuclear power industry. One of his major objectives is sharing his considerable experience in the field with younger nuclear engineers.

Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline. GBN has become involved with in the evolution and application of scenario thinking, planning, and complementary strategic tools. He is a world renowned lecturer, futurist and respected thought leader, especially in the disciplines of Ecology, Sustainability, Planet Stewardship and public policy.

Bruce DeMars is a retired United States Navy four-star Admiral who served as Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion, from 1988 to 1996. A US Naval Academy graduate, he served aboard four different submarines before taking command of USS Cavella. DeMars served in Vietnam. He holds the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit.

Marv Fertel is president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, DC. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, locating, licensing, and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has led NEI's activities related to the long term management, storage, and disposal of used nuclear fuel.

A graduate of MIT, Dr. Firebaugh was a qualified US Navy salvage diver who participated in the search for the USS Thresher submarine. He has served as Vice President of Innovation and Chief Engineer of Electric Boat Corporation (a Division of General Dynamics), responsible for a 2,800-person nuclear submarine design and engineering group.

Mr. Grae is President, CEO of Lightbridge, a nuclear pioneer company in the development of proliferation—resistant fuel technologies. Grae has led Lightbridge's efforts to reduce nuclear waste, and to provide comprehensive advisory services that focus on safety and non-proliferation for emerging commercial nuclear power programs. Mr. Grae, who holds degrees from Brandeis (B.A.) and American Universities (J.D.), and law and business degrees from Georgetown, has served as co-chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament.

Ben Grambau is a graduate of University of Michigan (2000) with advanced degrees in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences. He has been working for Areva NP, the largest worldwide vendor for commercial nuclear reactors, since 2001. Grambau is currently (NSSS) Nuclear Steam Supply System Engineering Manager for the France-based company, working out of their Lynchburg, Virginia office. NSSS consists of reactor, coolant pumps, systems and piping used to generate steam needed to drive a nuclear plant's turbine generator unit.

Vice Admiral John Grossenbacher, USN (Ret.) is the Director of the Idaho National Laboratory and President of Battelle Energy Alliance. As former Commander of the US Naval Submarine Forces, Grossenbacher led the integration and consolidation of the Atlantic and Pacific submarine forces. The mission of the Idaho National Laboratory, where nuclear energy was first converted into electricity, is to ensure energy security with safe, sustainable systems that meet homeland security capabilities.

William Hite has been associated with the labor union movement for 45 years. He is currently General President of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the US and Canada. Mr. Hite was directly involved in the construction of some of the last nuclear plants built in the United States in the early 1980s.

House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, of Maryland's 5th Congressional District, is charged with scheduling legislation for consideration on the House floor as well as building unity among House Democrats. Now serving his 15th term in Congress, he is not only the highest ranking member of Congress, but the longest serving member in Maryland's history. His notable achievements include the State Children's Health Insurance Program; The Americans with Disabilities Act; the Help America Vote Act; and the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act. He is former Chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Congressman Hoyer graduated with honors from the University of Maryland, and has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

Born 1938 in Berkeley, California, Taro Kimura is a Japanese veteran journalist who provides commentary and analysis with Yūko Andō on Japan's Fuji Television SuperNews.

Kimura was awarded the Hoso-Bunka Foundation Prize in 1986 for outstanding performance in newscasting, and the Vaughn-Ueda Prize in 1988, an award presented to the journalist whose works contribute to promoting international understanding. In 1989, he moved from NHK to joined Fuji TV.

In the course of his work, Kimura has interviewed notable figures such as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

A sports enthusiast who races cars, Terry Kohler has flown everything from fighter jets to B-47s and experimental aircraft, and who has sailed competitively for many years, Terry Kohler is president of Windway Capital Corp, who's assets include North Marine Group LLC (North Sails). Kohler holds degrees from MIT and the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.

Mark Mills is a physicist who was a development engineer in the field of integrated circuits during the early 1970s. He founded and ran an energy consulting business for 17 years. He served as staff consultant to the White House Science Office (under President Reagan), and the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Mills is a founding partner of Digital Power Capital, a columnist for Forbes Magazine, and co-author of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy.

Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at MIT, Dr. Moniz has served on the MIT faculty since 1973. He is director of the Energy Initiative, and director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT. He has served two terms as Undersecretary of the Department of Energy (1997-2001; 1995-1997). His principle research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics and in energy technology and policy studies. He currently serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST).

Patrick Moore is a Canadian ecologist who has been an environmental activist since age 24. In 1971, he was an early member of Greenpeace, a participant in their first direct action, and a force in shaping that organization's policy and direction. He founded Greenspirit, a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communication in natural resources, speakersdiversity, energy, and climate change.

Dr. Muller is a professor of physics at Berkeley whose popular lecture series — Physics for Future Presidents — has been turned into Muller's sixth book, and released as a video on YouTube. Muller is associated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1982), Muller received the Alan T. Waterman award from the National Science Foundation "for highly original and innovative research." He is a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group that consults for the US Department of Defense. A large part of Physics for Future Presidents is devoted to energy.

For 18 years Mr. O'Connor was Chairman and CEO of Unicom Corporation and it's subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) of Chicago, Illinois. He retired in 1998. After graduating from Holy Cross (science and economics), and receiving an MBA from Harvard, he spent three years with the US Air Force assigned to the Office of Special Investigation in Washington. He earned a law degree from Georgetown University in 1963, the same year he joined ComEd. James O'Connor is considered a pioneer in nuclear power. During his tenure as Chairman and CEO of ComEd, he was responsible for the construction of 12 nuclear plants.

Jay Ogilvy began his career as a professor of philosophy at Yale University and Williams College before heading the Values and Lifestyles research program at Stanford Research Institute. He and four friends founded the Global Business Network in 1987. They envisioned a worldwide learning community of organizations and individuals connected by a generous exchange of ideas and "ruthless curiosity." Ogilvy is author of three books: Many Dimensional Man; Living without a Goal; and Creating Better Futures.

A White House Fellow for the Department of Energy in 1989, and a former member of the National Security Council staff (Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control), Daniel Poneman's nomination by President Obama for Deputy Secretary Of Energy was confirmed by the Senate in 2009. As Special Assistant to the President (1993-1996), Poneman's responsibilities included global negotiation of peaceful nuclear cooperation. An attorney, with degrees from Harvard and Oxford Universities, Poneman is the author of Nuclear Power in the Developing World, and Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.

Chairman of the board and CEO of Duke Energy, James Rogers is one of the most decorated and highly-regarded chief executives in the United States. He has served more than 50 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. Rogers is a member of the Honorary Committee of the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, and has testified 21 times before Congress on energy and environmental policies. His company, Duke Energy, delivers electricity to 4 million customers, and is in the vanguard of clean coal and advanced nuclear power technologies. In naming Rogers one of the 50 most powerful people in the world, Newsweek (1/5/09) commented: "(Rogers) could make dreams of renewable power a reality."

An active conservationist, Mr. Roosevelt is Chair of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change; a Trustee of the Alliance for Climate Protection; a member of the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society; and a Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, among other organizations. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2000, he gave the speech on the environment at the Republican National Convention. After graduating from Harvard, Roosevelt worked in underwater demolition for the US Navy before joining the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer. Great Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt IV is Managing Director of Lehman Brothers and a member of the Firms senior client coverage group.

Peter Rugg has both liberal arts and industrial engineering degrees from Columbia University. His career began as a JP Morgan banker to the energy business with clients like ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Petroleos de Venezuela, and continued in industry when he was an executive officer of Triton Energy. For the last ten years Rugg has focused on new technologies, especially clean energy technologies. He is currently CEO of MacArthur Energy, a company that produces clean solid fuels through pre-combustion treatment of coal and biomass.

Media/sports entrepreneur and philanthropist, Ted Turner is the largest private land owner in the United States. He developed WTBS TV in Atlanta into the first cable "super station" before going on to found CNN TV. He began the UN Foundation, of which he is chairman, with a gift of $1 billion. Turner's five other foundations put a priority on environmentalism. His Nuclear Threat Initiative, which he co-chairs with Senator Sam Nunn, seeks to close the gap between threats from nuclear, speakerslogical, and chemical weapons and the global response. Recently Turner teamed with T. Boone Pickins to promote renewable energy and natural gas-fired power plants.

Dena Volovar is a project manager for Bechtel Power Corporation, an engineering, construction, and project management company that helped build the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. During her ten years in the nuclear industry, Ms. Volovar has specialized in nuclear analysis and design engineering, and outage management. She is a member of North America Young Generation in Nuclear, that unites young professionals who share their passion for this field. Ms. Volovar received her B.S. in Nuclear Science from University of Maryland.

Beginning as a US Navy Lieutenant assigned to a ballistic missile submarine, Mike Wallace has been directly involved with nuclear power since 1969. Working for ComEd in Chicago, Wallace oversaw construction of the last nuclear plants to be built in the United States. Currently President and CEO of Constellation Energy's Nuclear Group in Baltimore, Maryland, Wallace is an industry leader in nuclear power. He has spearheaded design development of a new nuclear plant to be built on Chesapeake Bay's Calvert Cliffs that is in final permitting stages.

Elected first female governor of New Jersey (1994-2001), Christine Todd Whitman went on to become the 9th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the G.W. Bush administration (2001-2003). She currently heads the Whitman Strategy Group, an energy lobby that specializes in environmental and energy issues. She is co-chair of CASEnergy Coalition, and has voiced support for a stronger future role for nuclear power in the United States. She also co-chairs the Republican Leadership Council, aimed at supporting fiscally conservative, socially tolerant candidates who will reclaim the word, "Republican."