Monday, December 17, 2012 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. AT&T Conference Center Amphitheatre 204 The University of Texas Austin, Texas PROGRAM Leading European and American energy experts will gather for an all-day conference to discuss the best practices for solutions to the energy problem while (1) educating participants about the problems and solutions and (2) establishing a collaborative transatlantic relationship. This event is sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the EU Center of Excellence at The University of Texas at Austin with the assistance of the European Union, French Embassy and Consulate (Houston), Center for European Studies, Cockrell School of Engineering, U.S. Department of Education, and CleanTX Foundation. Monday, December 17, 2012 8:30 a.m. Conference Opening Prof. Douglas Biow, Director, Center for European Studies, UT Austin 8:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks The Honorable Frédéric Bontems, Consul General of France, Houston 9:00 a.m. Shale Gas Production and Its Global Impacts Moderator: Prof. Ernie Moniz, Director of MIT’s Energy Initiative Panel Paul Cavicchi, Executive Vice President, Strategy, Risk and Portfolio Management, GDF SUEZ Energy North America Mike Goins, Supply Chain Executive (formerly of Total Petrochemicals USA) Dr. François Moisan, Executive Director of Strategy, Research and International Affairs, ADEME Rod Nelson, VP of Communications and Innovation & Collaboration, Schlumberger Prof. J.P. Nicot, UT Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. The Power Sector: Nuclear, Smart Grid, Renewables and Efficiency Moderator: Prof. David Spence, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin Panel Dr. Franck Carré, Scientific Director of the Nuclear Energy Division, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), France Cyril Pinel, Counselor for Nuclear Energy at the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C. Dr. Finis Southworth, CTO, AREVA, Inc. Jean-Baptiste Siproudhis, VP Communications, Compliance and Risk Management, Electricité de France Prof. James Sweeney, Director of Stanford University’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center 12:15 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. Keynote Prof. Scott Tinker, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin, with an introduction by Dean Greg Fenves, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin 2:00 p.m. Energy Policy Moderator: Prof. Varun Rai, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin Panel Pierre Gauthier, President and CEO, Alstom US Prof. Patrice Geoffron, Professor of Economics, University Paris Dauphine Dr. Paul Lucchese, Advisor to the General Director, New Technologies for Energy, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), France Prof. Richard Newell, Director of Duke University’s Energy Initiative and former Director of the Energy Information Administration The Honorable Mark Strama, Representative, Texas House of Representatives 3:30 p.m. Break 3:45 p.m. Energy Coverage in the Media Moderator: Evan Smith, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Tribune Panel Russell Gold, energy writer for The Wall Street Journal Clifford Krauss, energy writer for The New YorK Times Karl De Meyer, correspondent at Les Echos David Sassoon, founder and publisher, InsideClimate News 5:15 p.m. Wrap-up Comments, Prof. Michael E. Webber, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin 5:20 p.m. Closing Remarks, Dean Randy Diehl, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin 5:30 p.m. Reception SPEAKER BIOS - MEDIA Karl De Meyer, Correspondent, Les Echos Clifford Krauss, Correspondent, The New YorK Times De Meyer started his career Clifford Krauss has been a in journalism in 1998 and has correspondent for The New worked for the French daily YorK Times since 1990. He Les Echos since 2000. He currently is a national covered the financial sector business correspondent from Paris (2000-2003), was based in Houston, covering then EU Correspondent in energy. He covered the State Brussels (2003-2007), then Department, Congress and Berlin Correspondent (2008- the New York City police 2012). He's been New York department before serving as Correspondent since July Buenos Aires bureau chief 2012. and Toronto bureau chief. Before working at The Times, he worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall De Meyer, a French national, has a master’s degree in Street Journal and was the Edward R. Murrow fellow at Management from ESCP Europe (1994) and a master’s the Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of Inside degree in Political Studies from Institut d'Etudes Central America: Its People, Politics and History (1991). Politiques de Paris (1997). Krauss has published articles in Foreign Affairs, GQ and Wilson Quarterly, along with other publications. Russell Gold, Staff Reporter, The Wall Street Journal David Sassoon, Founder and publisher, InsideClimate News Russell Gold is the senior member of the global energy David Sassoon is the founder team at The Wall Street and publisher of Journal. He has reported on InsideClimate News, a non- the industry since 2002. His profit, non-partisan news coverage of the Deepwater organization that covers Horizon was honored with a clean energy, carbon energy, Gerald Loeb Award and was a nuclear energy and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. environmental science—plus the territory in between Gold is writing his first book, where law, policy and public about fracking and U.S. opinion are shaped. He has energy, to be published by worked as a journalist, editor Simon & Schuster in late 2013 or early 2014. and publisher for more than 25 years. In 2003, he conducted research on the business case for responding to climate change for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which BusinessWeeK used to rank and report on the Top Ten Companies of the Decade for greenhouse gas reductions. In 2007, he started a blog that has grown and evolved into InsideClimate News, which today partners with leading global media organizations. Sassoon served as a UN Volunteer in Nepal and earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Evan Smith, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the The Texas Before co-founding The Tribune, Smith spent nearly 18 Tribune years at Texas Monthly, stepping down in August 2009 as the magazine's president and editor-in-chief. He Evan Smith is the co-founder, previously served as its editor for more than eight years editor in chief, and CEO of — only the third person to hold that title. On his The Texas Tribune, a non- watch, Texas Monthly was nominated for 16 National profit, non-partisan digital Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's equivalent of news organization based in the Pulitzer Prize, and twice was awarded the National Austin. Magazine Award for General Excellence. For eight years, he hosted the Lone Star Emmy Award-winning The Tribune's deep coverage weekly interview program Texas Monthly TalKs, which of Texas politics and public aired on PBS stations statewide. He currently policy can found on its hosts Overheard with Evan Smith, airing on PBS stations website, texastribune.org; in nationally. the pages of The New YorK Times; and in newspapers and on TV and radio stations A New York native, Smith has a bachelor's degree in across the state. In not quite three years in operation, Public Policy from Hamilton College (Clinton, New York) the Tribune has won four Edward R. Murrow Awards and a master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern from the Radio Television Digital News Association, a University (Evanston, Illinois), which has inducted him Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in journalism from into its Hall of Achievement. the Society of Professional Journalists, a general excellence award from the Online News Association and a Knight-Batten award for innovations in journalism. SPEAKER BIOS – ACADEMIA Prof. Douglas Biow, Professor, French and Italian, UT Dean Randy Diehl, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin Austin Randy Diehl has served as the Douglas Biow is the dean of the College of Liberal Director of the Center for Arts at The University of European Studies (CES), the Texas at Austin since 2007. Co-Director of the EU He joined the faculty in 1975 Center of Excellence, the and served as Psychology Director of the France-UT Department chair from 1995 Institute housed in CES, to 1999. His scholarly and the Principal research has focused on Investigator of the Title VI language, cognition and National Research Center perception. He has won award funded by the U.S. multiple research grants from Department of Education the National Institutes of Health, the National Science for CES. Foundation and other organizations as well as several prestigious university teaching awards. He is the recipient of a number of grants, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment Diehl earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from of the Humanities, and the author of four books. the University of Illinois and his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. Dean Greg Fenves, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Prof. Ernest J. Moniz, Director of MIT’s Energy Initiative Austin Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Gregory L. Fenves is the dean Ida Green Professor of Physics of the Cockrell School of and Engineering Systems, Engineering at The University Director of the Laboratory for of Texas at Austin. He holds Energy and the Environment the Jack and Beverly Randall and the Director of the MIT Dean's Chair for Excellence in Energy Initiative at MIT, where Engineering. With 270 faculty, he has served on the faculty more than 7,500 students, since 1973. He currently serves and research expenditures on President Obama’s Council exceeding $150 million a of Advisors for Science and year, the Cockrell School is a Technology (PCAST).