Frederick Weston is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. From 1989 to 1999, he served as Economist and Hearing Officer at the Vermont Public Service Board. He was Co-Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Staff Subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Conservation from 1994 to 1997. He also served as Co-Chair of NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Electric Industry Restructuring in 1996 and 1997. From 1987 to 1989 Mr. Weston worked as an energy and economic consultant for clients in the U.S. and Middle East. He worked for the American International Group in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1984. Mr. Weston received his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1987 and his B.A. in English Literature from Middlebury College in 1979. He also received advanced intensive training in Arabic from the American University in Cairo in 1986.

Richard Cowart is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. One of the nation’s most experienced regulatory commissioners, he served as Commissioner and Chair of the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) for thirteen years (1986-1999). He was elected President of the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners, and Chair of the NARUC 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 state and federal officials and legislators responsible for power sector reform in the U.S. 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 B.A. from Davidson College, and the J.D. and Master of City Planning 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 is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Mr. Sedano is 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. Prior to joining RAP in 2001, Mr. Sedano served as Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service (VDPS) for nine years, and in staff positions for seven more. The VDPS represents utility consumers in all regulatory matters, and is the state's energy office and consumer advocate. 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 U.S. 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 Sc.B. in Engineering from Brown University, and his M.S. in Engineering Management from Drexel University.

Wayne Shirley is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. He served as Commissioner of the New Mexico Public Utility Commission from March 1995 to December 1998, serving as Chairman from August 1995 to December 1998.

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. Prior to serving on the New Mexico PUC, he held a variety of regulatory positions including 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 New Mexico's chief consumer advocate, and as attorney for the New Mexico Industrial Energy Consumers.

He has also 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 Khyrgistan.

He received his J.D. in 1976 from the Southern Methodist University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance in 1973 from the University of Texas at Austin.

Prior to her appointment as an Administrative Law Judge, Meg 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, Meg worked as a consultant to the National Governor’s 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.

Meg Gottstein received a Bachelor of Arts 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.

David Farnsworth is a Senior Associate of the Regulatory Assistance Project. From 1995 to 2008, he served as a Hearing Officer and Attorney on the staff of the Vermont Public Service Board. He was Co-Chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Staff Subcommittee to the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment from 2004 to 2005, and also the Vice Chair of the NARUC Staff Subcommittee to the Committee on Natural Gas from 2000 to 2002. He served as a staff member of the NARUC Task Force on Climate Policy from 2007 to 2008. From 2003 to 2008, Mr. Farnsworth was a member of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Staff Working Group. He has also worked internationally as a regulatory consultant with the Southern Africa Regional Telecommunications Restructuring Program, providing training on legal and policy issues, and advice regarding the adoption of regulatory mechanisms to relevant ministries and regulatory commissions in Mozambique, Swaziland, and Tanzania. Mr. Farnsworth received his J.D. and Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School, and his B.A. from Colby College.

Lisa Schwartz comes to RAP with 22 years of experience in energy education, policy and regulation. From 2002 to February 2009 she was staff lead at the Oregon Public Utility Commission 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 Public Utility Commission 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 M.S. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.S. in Environmental Studies from George Washington University.

Ben D'Antonio has been appointed as The Regulatory Assistance Project's first Energy and Environment Fellow. He recently earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, and Master of Studies in Environmental Law, magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School. At Vermont Law, Ben received academic awards in Air Pollution Law and Policy and Environmental Dispute Resolution and was a member of the Board of Trustees. Prior to law school, he worked in financial services and completed level one of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam in 2001. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Vermont, majoring in Economics and Business Administration. Ben lives in Norwich, Vermont, with his wife, Jane.

Cheryl Harrington is a former Director and co-founder of The Regulatory Assistance Project. She was a Commissioner on the Maine Public Utilities Commission from 1982 to 1991. Ms. Harrington was 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 J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

David Crossley is a Senior Consultant at The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP). He is based in Sydney, Australia. David 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. David’s experience includes periods as: a researcher at Griffith and Monash Universities in Australia pioneering social science research on energy policy and consumer energy conservation behaviour; the inaugural director of energy planning for the Victorian State Government in Australia; the senior executive responsible for demand management and energy efficiency in the former Australian electricity utility Pacific Power; an 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; the project director of three multi-national research projects for the International Energy Agency Demand Side Management Programme; the team leader for peer reviews of government energy efficiency policies in Chile and in New Zealand for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).

David 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.

David works half-time with RAP; for the other 50% of his time, he runs his own consultancy company, Energy Futures Australia Pty Ltd.

Jim Lazar is a Senior Advisor with The Regulatory Assistance Project. Based in Olympia, Washington, he 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 B.A. in Economics from Western Washington University.

Peter Bradford is an Associate of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Mr. Bradford is one of the country's most experienced public utility regulators. He was Chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission from June 1987 to January 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 July 1982 until 1987, and had been Maine's Public Advocate in early 1982. He also served as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 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 United States and abroad. He is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School.