Phil Sharp
President
Resources for
the Future
Phil Sharp became
President of Resources
for the Future (RFF) in
September 2005. Founded in 1952 as an
independent and nonpartisan research institution, RFF has an institutional endowment
of nearly $70 million and is the oldest
Washington think tank devoted exclusively to
policy analysis on energy, environmental, and
natural resource issues.
Sharp’s career in public service includes ten
terms as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Indiana from 1975-
1995, and he was on the faculty of the
John F. Kennedy School of Government and
the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
Previously Sharp taught political science at
Ball State University.
During his congressional tenure, Sharp
held key leadership roles in the development
of landmark energy legislation. He was a
driving force behind the Energy Policy Act of
1992, which led to wholesale electricity
market restructuring. He also helped develop
a critical part of the 1990 Clean Air Act
Amendments.
Sharp served on the House Energy and
Commerce Committee, where he chaired
the Fossil and Synthetic Fuels Subcommittee
from 1981-1987 and the Energy and
Power Subcommittee from 1987-1995. He
also was a member of the House Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee, where he
served on the Energy and Environment
Subcommittee and the Water and Power
Resources Subcommittee.
Following his House terms, Sharp joined
Harvard’s Kennedy School. He served twice
as Director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics
and also was a Senior Research Fellow in the
Environmental and Natural Resources Program.
Sharp was Congressional chair of the
National Commission on Energy Policy, a
panel established by major foundations to
make energy policy recommendations to the
federal government. The panel issued a
major report, Ending the Energy Stalemate:
A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's
Energy Challenges, in 2004, which has been
widely recognized as a comprehensive
roadmap for future energy policy.
Sharp graduated from Georgetown
University’s School of Foreign Service, later
receiving his Ph.D. in government.
For more on RFF, visit www.rff.org.
Olivier
Barbaroux
Chairman
Veolia Energy-Dalkia
Olivier Barbaroux
is Chairman of Veolia
Energy-Dalkia, Executive Vice President of
Veolia Environnement, and a Member of the
Executive Committee of Veolia Environnement. He began his career in 1979 as Head
of the International Investments Bureau at
the French Ministry of Industry. He was
appointed to the Port Authority of Marseilles-Fos in 1981, first as Director of New
Construction and Ship Repair and then as
Director of Marseilles Terminals and Facilities
in 1983.
Barbaroux joined the Paribas Group in
1987 as Deputy Director of Industrial
Affairs, and in 1993 was appointed as
Member of the Executive Committee of
Paribas Affaires Industrielles, in charge of
Energy, Natural Resources and Transportation,
and as Chairman and Managing Director
(CEO) of Coparex International. In 1996, he
was appointed Chairman and managing
Director (CEO) of VIA GTI. He became Global
Head of the Energy Division at Paribas in
1998.
Barbaroux joined Veolia in 1999 as
Director of Operations of Vivendi Water. He
was appointed Chairman and Managing
Director of Dalkia in February 2003.
Dalkia is a global leader in energy and
environmental management for government
and businesses and plays an essential role in
controlling energy demand and reducing
greenhouse gas emissions by optimizing
district energy networks and energy facilities in diverse settings. As of 2008, Dalkia
had 52,800 employees in 41 countries,
operating 800 urban and local heating and
cooling systems, plus tens of thousands of
other facilities. The company has a combined
managed revenue of 8. 6 billion euro ($11.9
billion) and 514.7 million ($712.3 million)
in managed operating profits. In 2008,
Dalkia prevented the discharge of 5. 6 million
tonnes of CO2 in 2008, a reduction of 20
percent more than 2007.
Barbaroux graduated from Ecole Poly-technique de Paris where he obtained
a Bachelors Degree in civil engineering and
a Masters of Science Degree in Civil
Engineering. He also is a graduate of Ecole
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more on Dalkia, go to www.dalkia.com.
Thomas Casten
Chairman
Recycled Energy
Development, Ltd.
Tom Casten has spent
30 years developing
and operating combined heat and power plants as a way to
lower carbon dioxide emissions and save
money. He is currently the Chairman of
Recycled Energy Development LLC and is the
former Chair and CEO of Primary Energy
Ventures (formerly Private Power LLC), an
independent power developer with a Toronto
Stock Exchange traded subsidiary,
From 1986-1999, Casten founded and
served as President & CEO of Trigen Energy
Corporation whose mission was to produce
electricity, heat and cooling with half the fossil fuel and half the pollution of conventional
generation. He led the IPO, taking the company public on the NYSE. In early 2000,
Casten and other minority investors sold the
company to the majority shareholder.
Previously, he was CEO of Trigen’s predecessor
company, Cogeneration Development Corp.,
and with Cummins Engine Co.
Casten has served as President of IDEA,
has received IDEA’s Normal R. Taylor Award,
and has been named a “CHP Champion”
by the U.S. Combined Heat and Power
Association. He was the co-founder and
Chairman of the World Alliance for
Distributed Energy (WADE) and was the first
to be inducted into WADE’s Hall of Fame.
He serves on the board of directors/
advisory boards of the Carnegie Mellon
Electric Industry Center, American Council
On Renewable Energy, Ontario Alliance for
Clean Technology, the Climate Institute, and
Chicago Council on Global Affairs Energy
Task Force. His articles have been widely
published, and he has testified before U.S.
Senate and House Energy committees and
has advised international government officials on power industry governance. Casten’s
1998 book, Turning off the Heat, explains
how the world can save money and pollution. He recently co-authored a chapter in
Energy and American Society, Thirteen
Myths.
From 1964-1968, Casten was an engineer
officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and spent
one year in Vietnam. He is a graduate of the
University of Colorado and holds an MBA
from Columbia University.
For more on Recycled Energy Development,
visit www.recycled-energy.com.
