Moderator: Henry Lee

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Henry Lee is Lecturer in Public Policy, the Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program within the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, cochair of the Kennedy School's Program on Infrastructure in a Market Economy, and coprincipal investigator of the Energy, Technology, and Policy Project. Before joining the school, Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the state's Energy Office and Special Assistant to the Governor for Environmental Policy. He has served on numerous state, federal, and private advisory committees and boards focusing on both energy and environmental issues and spent 12 years working with power developers in the United States and East Asia. His recent research interests focus on environmental management, energy policy, global climate change, geopolitics of oil and gas, and public infrastructure projects in developing countries. He has recently written several articles on China's oil strategies.

Robert Stoner

MIT Energy Initiative

Robert Stoner is Associate Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, and is responsible for MITEI's developing world energy research and education programs. He also serves as the Executive Director of the MIT-Tsinghua-Cambridge Low Carbon Energy University Alliance. Dr. Stoner was previously a member of the Clinton Foundation’s leadership team, serving as Chief Executive of the Africa-based Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative, and establishing the Foundation's developing world clean energy program.

Dr. Stoner received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics at Brown University in 1992, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics with First Class Honors from Queen's University, Canada. He was a National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Scholar, and Brown University Fellow. He holds US patents in the fields of semiconductor devices, optical measurement systems, optical devices, network computing, and acoustics. His current technical interests include energy distribution and storage systems.

Joisa Dutra Saraiva

Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

Joisa Saraiva‘s work focuses on the role of demand side management mechanisms in the electricity industry and also on procurement auctions. Mrs. Saraiva was Director of the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency from 2005 to 2009. Previously, Mrs. Saraiva coordinated the Center for Experimental Economics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, conducting economic experiments regarding the areas of regulatory economics, auctions and economics of contracts. She provided advice to the Ministry of Finance related to energy auctions as well as advice regarding systematic assessment of auctions and government bidding, and in the area of electricity sector regulation. She is a professor of the Getulio Vargas Foundation and co-author of several scientific and technological papers, such as "Hybrid Auctions", and others involving systematic auctions in Brazil. Mrs. Saraiva received her PhD degree in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in Brazil.

Ashish Khanna

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Ashish Khanna works as a Senior Energy Specialist in the South Asia Sustainable Department of the World Bank, where he focuses on Energy Sector. He has over eleven years of international energy sector development experience spanning policy, strategic and organizational transformation issues. He has led teams working in India across federal level as well as twelve Indian states; in addition to working on energy issues across UK, Brazil, Bangladesh and Thailand. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2005, he was a senior manager with international consultancy arm of KPMG. He has been leading projects across the energy sector value chain with focus on varied areas like energy policy formulation, regulation, market design, organizational change, governance improvement and financial restructuring. Ashish is currently a Mason Fellow pursuing a mid career MPA at Harvard Kennedy School (with John K Galbraith Fellowship). He is also an undergraduate in Economics from Delhi University and a graduate in Management from Xavier Institute of Management in India.