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Mike Ableson
Vice President, Electric Vehicle Charging & Infrastructure, General Motors Company
Abdallah Al-Mouallimi
Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations
Ashok Belani
Chairman, Genvia Board
Sally Benson
Stanford University Precourt Family Professor
Alastair Bishop
Director & Portfolio Manager, BlackRock
Jerry Brown
Governor, State of California
David Carroll
President & CEO, Gas Technology Institute
Etosha Cave
Co-founder, Chief Operations Officer, Opus 12
Yi Cui
Director, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Lisa Davis
CEO Energy, Siemens AG
Jeff Dean
Senior Fellow, Google Inc.
Ira Ehrenpreis
Founder & Managing Partner, DBL Partners
Chris Field
Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
Bill Gates
Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Founder of Breakthrough Energy
David Goeckeler
Executive Vice President, Cisco, Inc.
Kate Gordon
Partner, RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners
Susan Gordon
Principal Deputy Director, National Intelligence, United States of America
David Hager
President & Chief Executive Officer, Devon Energy Corporation
Thomas Heller
Professor of International Legal Studies, Emeritus, Stanford Law School
John Hennessy
Chairman of the Board, Alphabet; Director, Knight Hennessy Scholars Program, Stanford University
Thad Hill
President & CEO, Calpine Corporation
Doug Kimmelman
Senior Partner, Energy Capital Partners
Isabelle Kocher
Chief Executive Officer, Engie
Joaquim Levy
Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer, World Bank Group
Peter MacKay
Partner, Baker McKenzie
Francesco Mele
Partner, Azimuth Capital Management
Michael C. Morgan
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Triangle Peak Partners
Brian Moynihan
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
Lisa Murkowski
US Senator; Chair, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Lynn Orr
Professor Emeritus, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Sara Ortwein
President, XTO Energy
Jamie Parada
Director General, Institute of Innovation and Technology Transfer, Nuevo Leon
Patricia Poppe
President & CEO, CMS Energy
Anne Pramaggiore
Senior Executive Vice President & CEO, Exelon Utilities
Abhijeet Sathe
Chief Operating Officer, Softbank Energy
Philippe Sauquet
President Gas, Renewables & Power and President Strategy-Innovation, Total
KR Sridhar
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Bloom Energy
Richard Swanson
Founder, SunPower
Andrew Swiger
Senior Vice President and Principal Financial Officer, ExxonMobil
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
President, Stanford University
Chris Urmson
Co-founder & CEO, Aurora
Tao Zhang
Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lei Zhang
CEO, Envision Group
Mark Zoback
Director, Natural Gas Initiative, Stanford University; Professor, Geophysics, Professor of Geophysics, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Cathy Zoi
CEO, EVgo