David Moskovitz served as a commissioner of the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from 1984 through 1989, after having served as a commission staff attorney for six years. Mr. Moskovitz authored Maine's rules regarding the development of cogeneration and small power production. Prior to joining the Maine PUC, he was employed by Commonwealth Edison, Inc., an Illinois utility. Mr. Moskovitz has published numerous technical and policy articles on incentive regulation, least-cost planning and renewable energy. He is a frequent speaker at national seminars and has provided expert testimony on these topics. He received his BSE in engineering from Purdue University and his JD from Loyola University.

Since joining RAP in 1999, Rick Weston has been working extensively in China on the development of new policy initiatives in efficiency, pricing and environmental regulation. When not in China, Mr. Weston works with state and federal policymakers in the US on matters relating to energy efficiency, renewables, regulatory reform and pricing, regional market operations and emissions regulation. More recently, he has begun work under the International Energy Agency's DSM Programme. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Weston served as economist and hearing officer at the Vermont Public Service Board. From 1994 to 1997, he was co-chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' staff subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Conservation. He also served as co-chair of NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Electric Industry Restructuring. Mr. Weston has worked as an energy and economic consultant for clients in the US and Middle East, including work with the American International Group in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1984. Mr. Weston received his MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and his BA in English literature from Middlebury College. He also received advanced intensive training in Arabic from the American University in Cairo.

Richard Cowart directs European programmes for RAP, leading RAP’s international team in Brussels. He has deep experience on state and national energy and environmental issues in the US, China and several other nations, with a particular focus on climate policy for the past decade. His recent work focuses on power markets, climate policy, and energy efficiency programmes throughout Europe. A highly experienced regulator, Mr. Cowart served as commissioner and chair of the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) for 13 years (1986-1999). He was elected president of the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners and chair of the US regulators’ Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment. He also served for four years as chair of the National Council on Competition and the Electric Industry, an association of the state and federal officials and legislators responsible for power sector reform in the US. He has worked closely with industry as a member of the Board of the Electric Power Research Institute and serves on the Environmental Advisory Committee of the New York Independent System Operators. Before his appointment to the PSB, Mr. Cowart was assistant professor and director of the Program in Planning and Law at the University of California, Berkeley (1980-85), and executive officer and general counsel of the Vermont Environmental Board (1978-80). He received his BA from Davidson College and his JD and MCP degrees from UC, Berkeley, where he was editor-in-chief of the Ecology Law Quarterly, a leading journal of environmental law and policy.

Richard Sedano served as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service (VDPS) for nine years and in staff positions for seven more before he joined RAP in 2001. The VDPS represents utility consumers in all regulatory matters, and is the state's energy office and consumer advocate. He is currently the facilitator of the Mid-Atlantic Distributed Resource Initiative, the Midwest Demand Resources Initiative, and the Pacific Northwest Demand Response Project. Recently, he has worked with a collaborative in Arkansas and Oklahoma to launch energy efficiency programs, with members and stakeholders of the Ozone Transport Commission to develop utility policies to address regional ozone policy, and the stakeholders developing the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency. In November 2009, he was awarded the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Mary Kilmarx Award. Mr. Sedano served as chair of the National Association of State Energy Officials from 1998-2000. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, the ISO-New England Environmental Advisory Group, the investment committee of the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund, EVermont (an alternative transportation vehicle consortium), and the Energy Team for the City of Montpelier. He was a member of the Task Force on Reliability to the US Secretary of Energy's Advisory Committee from 1997-1998, and a member of the advisory committee to the ISO-New England Board of Directors from 1999-2003. Mr. Sedano received his BS in engineering from Brown University and his MS in engineering management from Drexel University.

Wayne Shirley served as commissioner of the New Mexico Public Utility Commission (PUC) from 1995 to 1998, serving most of that period as its chairman. While a commissioner, he was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment and the NARUC Ad Hoc Committee on Electric Industry Restructuring. He also held a variety of regulatory positions that included general counsel of the New Mexico State Corporation Commission, director of the energy unit of the New Mexico Attorney General's Office (where he was the state's chief consumer advocate) and as attorney for the New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers. He has shared his regulatory expertise with regulators and governments of China, India, the Philippines, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Poland, Malawi, Ghana, Indonesia, Egypt, Nepal, Bangladesh and Khyrgystan. He received his JD from the Southern Methodist University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Meg Gottstein comes to RAP with 20 years of experience as an administrative law judge at the California Public Utilities Commission, where she became known as a key architect of the commission’s energy efficiency and climate change policy decisions. In this capacity, Ms. Gottstein presided over collaborative stakeholder meetings as well as formal evidentiary hearings to address groundbreaking policy and program implementation issues. Most notably, she crafted commission decisions after California’s electric industry crisis that restored California and its investor-owned utilities to a world leadership role in energy efficiency. In addition, she authored the landmark commission decision adopting a greenhouse gas cap for California’s investor-owned electric utilities, which was subsequently expanded statewide and codified by Assembly Bill 32. Prior to her appointment as an administrative law judge, Ms. Gottstein served in several other capacities at the commission, including as policy advisor to the president, assistant director for compliance and advisory staff and manager of the resource modeling group in the Division of Ratepayer Advocates. Before joining the commission, she worked as a consultant to the National Governors Association and other clients on renewable energy, energy efficiency and other energy topics. In addition, she served from 1979 to 1981 in the Carter administration as the Department of Energy’s Regional Director for the Appropriate Technology Grants program in California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and the western Pacific islands. Ms. Gottstein received a BA in German and economics from Tufts University and a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She speaks German, French and Spanish.

Bob Lieberman joined RAP after serving as a commissioner with the Illinois Commerce Commission and earlier as the chief executive officer of the innovative Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology, an urban sustainability group. Mr. Lieberman has 25 years of experience as a designer, implementer, and regulator of innovative demand-side energy efficiency and demand response programs. While serving as commissioner, he organized and presided over the design and implementation collaborative for the Illinois Sustainable Energy Plan that evolved into Illinois' first energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. He drafted the commission's orders that created the Illinois Statewide Smart Grid Collaborative and the Commonwealth Edison AMI pilot. He organized and served as chairman of the Midwest Demand Resources Initiative, a collaborative effort of 14 Midwest state regulatory commissions, and other stakeholders designed to help integrate energy efficiency, demand response and price-responsive demand into wholesale electricity markets. Prior to his appointment as a commissioner, Mr. Lieberman served as CEO at the Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology, where he was responsible for the development of the Community Energy Cooperative that designed and implemented energy efficiency and demand response programs for communities in northern Illinois. Among many other offerings, the cooperative introduced and implemented the Energy-Smart Pricing Program, the first hourly pricing program for residential customers in the country. Mr. Lieberman received a BA in Russian history from Oakland University and a Masters of Public Policy from the Institute of Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan.

David Crossley has 35 years experience in the energy sector, both in Australia and internationally, providing advice on sustainable energy policy and programs to governments, regulators, energy companies, industry associations and NGOs. Based in Sydney, Mr. Crossley has served as a researcher at Griffith and Monash Universities in Australia, pioneering social science research on energy policy and consumer energy conservation behaviour. He was the inaugural director of energy planning for the Victorian State Government in Australia; senior executive responsible for demand management and energy efficiency in the former Australian electricity utility Pacific Power; adviser to the New South Wales State Government in Australia, responsible for planning and establishing the Sustainable Energy Development Authority with a mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; project director of three multi-national research projects for the International Energy Agency Demand Side Management Programme; team leader for peer reviews of government energy efficiency policies in Chile and in New Zealand for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). Mr. Crossley holds a BA from the University of York in the United Kingdom, an MSc from the Australian National University and a PhD from Griffith University in Australia. He works half-time with RAP and runs his own consultancy company, Energy Futures Australia Pty Ltd.

Prior to joining RAP, David Farnsworth served as a hearing officer and staff attorney with the Vermont Public Service Board from 1995 to 2008. He was co-chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' (NARUC) staff subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment from 2004 to 2005, and vice-chair of the NARUC staff subcommittee to the Committee on Natural Gas from 2000 to 2002, and has served as a staff member of the NARUC Task Force on Climate Policy. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Farnsworth was a member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Staff Working Group. He has worked internationally as a regulatory consultant with the Southern Africa Regional Telecommunications Restructuring Program, providing training on legal and policy issues, and advises on the adoption of regulatory mechanisms to relevant ministries and regulatory commissions in Mozambique, Swaziland, and Tanzania. Mr. Farnsworth received his JD and Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School. He received his BA from Colby College.

Lisa Schwartz comes to RAP with 22 years of experience in energy education, policy and regulation. From 2002 to early 2009 she was staff lead at the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) on electric utility resource planning and acquisition, renewable and distributed resources, advanced metering and demand response. She was the driving force in adoption of state-of-the-art policies to advance demand-side management and renewable resources and served as a commission liaison on legislative matters. She also served on the Western Climate Initiative’s Electricity Subcommittee and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ staff subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment. Ms. Schwartz began her energy career in 1987 as an assistant administrator at the Oregon State University Extension Energy Program. She joined the Oregon Department of Energy in 1995, serving as a policy and communications analyst and later as a senior policy analyst. At the department, she helped establish Oregon’s stable funding and third-party administrator for conservation and renewable resources and led an annual Energy Awareness Campaign with the state’s electric and natural gas utilities. She also chaired a committee for the PUC that developed renewable energy options for Portland General Electric and Pacific Power customers, among the most successful in the U.S. Ms. Schwartz received her MS in land resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BS in environmental studies from George Washington University.

Chris James recently joined RAP from Synapse Energy Economics, and is based in Tacoma, WA. He previously served as manager of climate change and energy programs and as director of the Air Planning and Standards Division at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). He represented the DEP on Connecticut's energy efficiency fund and served as the Connecticut staff lead on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. He also worked for the US EPA in Seattle and for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Prior to his government experience, Mr. James consulted for four years in air pollution related to utility industry and biomass energy recovery. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an AM in environmental studies from Brown University.

Since joining RAP in 2007, Rebecca Schultz has specialized in power sector and environmental policy in China. She previously worked at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC, where she concentrated on climate change policy with respect to the developing world. She led the energy poverty chapter of the center’s energy portfolio, focusing on efforts to support sub-Saharan African countries engage the global carbon markets and improve US development assistance by addressing both the adaptation and mitigation challenges of climate change. Prior to joining the center, Ms. Schultz studied the Muslim history of northwestern China at Swarthmore College and spent several years living and working in the region as a Fulbright Scholar. She has done extensive field research on the expressions of Islamic faith and culture in China, and worked with indigenous rural development organizations in that part of the world.

Cathie Murray is coordinating RAP’s efforts to provide international power sector expertise in India, in concert with RAP’s partners at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She joined RAP in 2002 as its first research and policy analyst and served as RAP’s first research director. At RAP she has co-authored papers or provided primary research on national and international energy efficiency and renewable energy policies, as well as program finance, implementation and administration. She developed in-depth international policy study tours for key decision makers from China. Ms. Murray received her BA in biology from Brown University and MA in counseling from Western New Mexico State University. She earned a certificate in mediation and co-founded Community Mediation Services. She also served as chair of the first Open Space Planning Committee in her town. Earlier in her career, she was responsible for the State of Maine’s energy efficiency, appropriate technology and alternative energy programs for residential, institutional and commercial sectors.

Prior to joining RAP's China team, Max Dupuy served for six years as an economist at the US Treasury, advising senior officials on Asian economic issues with a focus on China and Indonesia. Subsequently, he worked for three years at the New Zealand Treasury, developing policy advice on power sector regulation and capital efficiency issues. Mr. Dupuy has also worked in economic research in the Federal Reserve system. He has written articles about the international experience with electricity markets, Chinese energy policy, and macroeconomic productivity, among other issues. He earned a master's degree in economics and policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and an undergraduate degree in economics from Queen's University in Canada. In addition, he completed a two-year Mandarin Chinese language program at the National Taiwan University.

Stephen Benians recently joined RAP as the European liaison based in Brussels. Prior to working with RAP, he was an independent political analyst and consultant in climate and energy policies of the European Union. In this role he coordinated several EU-funded research and development projects, including a platform for innovation and policy development among government agencies and researchers from India, South Africa, Brazil and across the EU. Mr. Benians also worked with The Centre, a Brussels think tank and consultancy. He was coordinator of public diplomacy programmes for the British Council in Brussels for three years, after working with the European Commission’s DG for External Relations on the Mexico and Central America desk. He speaks French, Italian, Spanish and some Farsi. He studied EU politics at Edinburgh University and has a Masters in Innovation Management from the Scuola Superiore di Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Robin Barton joined RAP as office manager/executive assistant in November 2006. She has over 35 years of experience working in various office supporting roles, including 20 years in office management in both the legal and non-profit sectors. For several years, Ms. Barton also owned a small business providing administrative support and bookkeeping services for a wide range of clients.

Prior to joining RAP in 2010, J. Riley Allen was the senior policy advisor to the Vermont Public Service Board and served as the director of utility planning at the Department of Public Service. For almost 20 years, Mr. Allen served as an economist, expert witness and hearing examiner on a variety of major state-level policy investigations, including matters related to electric utility integrated resource planning, forecasting, electric utility industry restructuring, alternative regulation, transmission planning, utility investment in advanced metering and dynamic prices and energy efficiency planning. He most recently led portions of an expedited regulatory proceeding to establish a statewide renewable standard offer (feed-in tariff) program in Vermont. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Allen served as technical advisor on several development projects to assist governments and communications regulators and in Southern Africa. He received his MA in economics from the University of Virginia and a BA in economics from the University of Florida.

Prior to joining RAP, Brenda Hausauer worked as a policy analyst and planner for the Vermont Department of Public Service. She was also a researcher and writer for several Vermont-based energy and land use planning non-profits, and a local zoning and planning administrator. Ms. Hausauer received a BA in English from Luther College and an MA in Environmental Philosophy from Colorado State University.

Chris Simpson is a research and policy analyst for RAP. Mr. Simpson worked at the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from 1985 to 1997 and again from 2005 to 2008, serving as a staff attorney, hearing examiner, legislative liaison, administrative director and director of energy programs. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Simpson worked as a third party neutral, acting as an arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and trainer in a variety of utility-related contexts. Mr. Simpson received his A.B. degree in history and English from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Virginia. Mr. Simpson has also taken several courses in negotiation and dispute resolution.

Before joining RAP in early 2009, Lainie Motamedi served for six years as a senior policy analyst for the California Public Utilities Commission's Division of Strategic Planning from. She led the commission's efforts to mitigate climate change impacts from the energy sector and also focused on energy efficiency and clean energy issues. Ms. Motamedi holds a masters degree from the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, and also completed a Coro Fellowship in public affairs. She currently is a member of the San Francisco Bike Coalition’s board of directors.

Ajith Rao recently joined RAP after completing his work as a doctoral student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where he focused on the integration of renewable energy systems into buildings and the development of the next generation of building energy technologies. He also worked as an Energy Analyst with Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, a prominent architecture-engineering firm, where he was involved in energy modeling support for the NYSERDA New Construction Program, carbon footprint analysis, and developing building commissioning databases, among other projects. He holds a Master’s degree in Design Computation from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology, India.

Camille Kadoch came to RAP in 2010 after being an associate with Davis Steadman & Ford in White River Junction, VT., in general practice litigation. Ms. Kadoch received her BA in Biology and Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., and her JD from Vermont Law School, where she also received her Master of Studies in Environmental Law. Ms. Kadoch has had articles published on freedom of expression and linguistic rights in Turkey, and Native American rights under federal Indian law. She also co-authored a comparative analysis of international approaches to implementing global climate change policy.

Edith Pike-Biegunska earned her JD from New York University School of Law, where she participated in the NYU Environmental Law Clinic, focusing on public health and safety issues in post-Katrina New Orleans and on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Ms. Pike-Biegunska recently spent a year living in Moscow working on international climate policy. Prior to law school, she worked as a teacher in Japan and a Peace Corps volunteer in Siberia. She received her BA from Tulane University with a double major in Russian and Spanish, and speaks fluent Russian, Spanish, Polish, and conversational Japanese.

Barbara Wagner joined RAP in 2009, having previously served as vice president of operations for the Vermont Land Trust, director of finance and administration for the Mid-Atlantic Regional office of the Trust for Public Land, and facilities manager for the Appalachian Mountain Club. In addition to her land conservation and environmental work, Ms. Wagner has consulted to non-profits in the areas of organizational assessment, strategy design and impact evaluation, as well as organizational growth, culture change and systems design. She has a BS in Forest Biology from Syracuse University, and a MBA from the Yale School of Management, where she concentrated on non-profit management.

Carol Martin joined RAP in January 2009. Her diverse background includes founding and operating a highly successful management consulting firm in Seattle, WA. and serving as regional director for a Fortune 500 healthcare company. She also served as deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service (DPS), assistant curator of the Vermont State House and a variety of other management roles in non-profit organizations. While at the DPS, Ms. Martin directed the Energy Efficiency Division and the Consumer Affairs Division, in addition to providing administrative and financial management for the department. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Prior to joining RAP in January 2010, Diane Derby spent nearly a decade in Washington, DC, where she served as press secretary and communications director for U.S. Sen. James Jeffords and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (minority staff). She also helped launch the Georgetown Climate Center at Georgetown Law and served as media relations director at Vermont Law School. As a journalist, she covered the State House for the Vermont Press Bureau throughout the 1990s and was a frequent guest commentator on Vermont Public Television. She also worked as a journalist in Massachusetts. Ms. Derby received her BA in journalism from Northeastern University.

Cheryl Harrington was a commissioner on the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from 1982 to 1991. She served as vice-chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioner's Energy Conservation Committee and has appeared frequently as a lecturer on energy matters in national regulatory forums. She has advised several committees of the United States Congress on the subjects of energy efficiency, the relationship between efficiency and global warming, and the economic and environmental benefits of a national energy strategy which embraces energy efficiency. Ms. Harrington served in the Maine Attorney General's Office as division chief for consumer and antitrust litigation in the seven years prior to serving on the Maine PUC. She received her JD from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Based in Olympia, WA., Jim Lazar has maintained a consulting practice in electric and natural gas utility ratemaking and resource planning since 1982. His clients have included municipal and cooperative electric utilities, natural gas utilities, regulatory commissions, state consumer advocates, and public interest organizations in the United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. He has been a principal author of handbooks and articles on consumer participation in electric utility planning, integrated resource planning, and incentive regulation. He has assisted RAP since 1998, working on projects in the U.S., Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, the Philippines, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, and Samoa. Mr. Lazar holds a BA in economics from Western Washington University.

Peter Bradford is one of the country's most experienced public utility regulators. He was chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission from 1987 to 1995. Mr. Bradford served as president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in 1987. He chaired the Maine Public Utilities Commission from 1982 until 1987, and had been Maine's Public Advocate in early 1982. He also served as a member of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). During his term, the NRC undertook a major overhaul of its regulatory and enforcement processes in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident. Mr. Bradford currently teaches and consults on regulatory practices and procedures within the US and abroad. He is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School.

Ralph Hallo has 20 years of experience in European environmental and energy policy, in addition to a decade of experience working in the United States in these areas. In addition to his work with RAP, he directs Brussels Strategics, a European public affairs consultancy based in the Netherlands. He has also worked for Econcern, one of Europe’s leading sustainable energy companies and Stichting Natuur en Milieu, one of the major environmental organizations in the Netherlands. Mr. Hallo served as President of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB, Brussels), Europe’s largest federation of environmental organizations. As a senior advisor to the European Commission and the Dutch Ministry of Environment, he has testified before the European Parliament and national parliaments. In the US, he worked for the environmental law firm of Berle, Kass & Case, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the New York City Energy Office. He received his JD from New York University and his AB from Harvard College.