Frederick Weston is a Director of The Regulatory Assistance Project. Since 1999, when he joined RAP, Mr. Weston has been working extensively in China, assisting in the development of new policy initiatives in efficiency, pricing, and environmental regulation. When not in China, Mr. Weston works with US state and federal policymakers 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.

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.

Bob Lieberman joined RAP after serving his time as a Commissioner with the Illinois Commerce Commission and before that as the Chief Executive Officer of the innovative Chicago-based urban sustainability group, the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

Bob 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, Bob 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, Bob served as CEO at the Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology where he was responsible for the development of the Community Energy Cooperative which 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. The program now expanded throughout Illinois - has over 20,000 participants who have saved between 10% -20% on their electricity bills and reduced their demand between 15% - 25%.

Bob received a Bachelor of Arts in Russian History from Oakland University and a Masters of Public Policy from the Institute of Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan.

Barbara Wagner recently joined RAP as Chief Operations Officer. Previously she 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, Barbara 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.

Diane Derby is the Communications Manager with the Regulatory Assistance Project. Prior to joining RAP, she spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., where she served as Communications Director for U.S. Sen. James Jeffords and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (minority staff), and recently helped launch the Georgetown Climate Center at Georgetown Law. She also 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. Ms. Derby received her B.A. in journalism from Northeastern University.

J. Riley Allen is the Research Manager at the Regulatory Assistance Project. Prior to his work at RAP, Riley 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, Riley 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, energy efficiency planning and screening, and, most recently led portions of an expedited regulatory proceedings to establish a statewide renewable standard offer (a.k.a., feed-in tariff) program in Vermont. From 2001 to 2004, Riley served as technical advisor on several development projects to assist governments and communications regulators and in Southern Africa. Riley received a MA in Economics from the University of Virginia and a BA in Economics from the University of Florida.

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.

Rebecca Schultz is an associate at the Regulatory Assistance Project, where she has specialized in power sector and environmental policy in China since 2007. Previously, at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC, 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 U.S. development assistance by addressing both the adaptation and mitigation challenges of climate change. Prior to joining the Center, 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.

Max Dupuy is The Regulatory Assistance Project's Regional Coordinator for China. He served for six years as an economist at the U.S. 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.

Brenda Hausauer is a Research and Policy Analyst for the Regulatory Assistance Project. Brenda has worked as a policy analyst and planner for the Vermont Department of Public Service, a researcher and writer for several Vermont-based energy and land use planning non-profits, and as a local zoning and planning administrator. She received a B.A. in English from Luther College, and an M.A. in Environmental Philosophy from Colorado State University.

Chris Simpson is a Research and Policy Analyst for the Regulatory Assistance Project. Mr. Simpson worked at the Maine PUC from 1985 through 1997 and from 2005 through 2008 in several capacities including Staff Attorney, Hearing Examiner, Legislative Liaison, Administrative Director and Director of Energy Programs. From 1998 through 2004, Mr. Simpson worked as a third party neutral. During this period, Mr. Simpson acted as an arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and trainer in a variety of utility-related contexts. Mr. Simpson received an A.B. degree in History and English from the University of Illinois in 1979 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1985. Mr. Simpson has also taken several courses in negotiation and dispute resolution.

Lainie Motamedi joined the Regulatory Assistance Project in early 2009 as a researcher. Previously, she was a Senior Policy Analyst for the California Public Utilities Commission in their Division of Strategic Planning from 2002-2008. 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.

Edith Pike-Biegunska is an Energy and Environment Fellow at RAP. Prior to joining RAP, Edith earned her Juris Doctor 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 in the northeast. Edith spent the past year in Moscow, Russia working on international climate policy. Before law school, Edith worked as a teacher in Japan and a Peace Corps volunteer in Siberia. Edith received her B.A. from Tulane University magna cum laude with a double major in Russian and Spanish, and speaks fluent Russian, Spanish, Polish, and conversational Japanese.

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.