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The Helios Centre enjoys working relationships with a wide range of experts worldwide. In recent years, our colleagues have included:
- PETER BRADFORD has chaired the New York State Public Service Commission and the Maine Public Utilities Commission, has served as President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and was a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1977 until 1982. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, Mr. Bradford has written many articles on utility regulation and nuclear power, and authored the book Fragile Structures: a Story of Oil Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine. He teaches Energy Policy and Environmental Protection as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale and advises and teaches on utility regulation, restructuring and energy policy in the U.S. and abroad. He was a member of an International Expert Panel advising the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development on least cost alternatives to continued operation of Chernobyl, and serves on the Policy Advisory Committee of the China Sustainable Energy Project of the Packard Foundation.
- FRED AYER is Executive Director of the Low Impact Hydropower Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of environmentally responsible, "low impact” hydropower. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Ayer had had a long career involving licensing hydroelectric projects before FERC. For example, he assisted the Avista Corporation of Spokane, Washington in the successful collaborative relicensing of its 790 MW Noxon Rapids and Cabinet Gorge Projects on the Clark Fork River in Montana and Idaho. From 1983 through 1990, he served as Director of Environmental Affairs at the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, where he was instrumental in developing the relicensing strategy for the 13 MW West Enfield Project that included the removal of a dam in one river as mitigation for impacts on another. Mr. Ayer is a graduate of Olivet College where he majored in Art.
- IAN GOODMAN, president of The Goodman Group, Ltd.; specializes in research and consulting relating to hydroelectric systems, trans-border energy trade, electricity and natural gas resource planning, aboriginal issues, and employment and other economic development impacts of various energy options. He has 28 years of experience advising aboriginals, government agencies, consumer and environmental advocates, and other clients throughout Canada and the United States. Mr. Goodman has testified in more than forty-five regulatory proceedings, legislative hearings, and court cases. He has co-authored over forty reports, and his papers have been published in various professional journals and conference proceedings. Mr. Goodman studied civil engineering and transportation planning at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
- SØREN KROHN is one of the world's leading expert in wind energy with experience in technological developments, incentive fiscal policy, regulation and economics. Mr. Krohn is currently an independent consultant and teaches economics at the University of Copenhagen. He served on the Danish Wind Turbine Manufacturers' Association as Director General for eight years and has won many prestigious prizes for his contributions to the wind energy sector. He has authored numerous papers on regulatory issues, policies for renewables, green certificates, offshore wind, wind energy, among other issues. In 2004, Mr. Krohn was a consultant on technology and economics for Hydro-Québec Distribution’s 1000 MW wind power acquisition. Mr. Krohn has also made contributions in software development and has built dozens of pedagogic wind technology applications for the internet. He holds a M.Sc. in economics from the University of Copenhagen.
- SUSANNE HEITMÜLLER is a Doctor of Law from the University of Kiel (Germany), with a specialization in European and International environmental law. She also holds a Master's in international and comparative environmental law from the University of Stockholm (Sweden). She was legal advisor for the Green Party in the German federal Parliament in Berlin where she was involved in the reform process of the act on granting priority to renewable energy sources. She also worked for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal and for the European Department of the City of Berlin. Since 2005 she is a post-doctoral researcher at CÉRIUM (Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal) and the Chaire Jean Monnet en intégration européenne de l'Université de Montréal. Her current research deals with legal questions connected with biotechnologies and citizens' rights in environmental matters. The comparison of the evolution of European, Canadian and Quebec Law in these fields is her main center of interest.
- CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, internationally recognized global climate change expert and executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A native of Costa Rica, Ms. Figueres has been an official negotiator of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol for Costa Rica since 1994, and is a key promoter of Latin America's participation in the Climate Convention. She founded the Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA) in 1995 and directed it until 2003. She is a designer of cutting edge policies, projects and financial instruments in the field of sustainable energy. In addition to being a widely published author, she is a frequent panelist in international conferences, radio and television programs on conservation, energy and environment. In March, 2001, she was awarded the Hero for the Planet award from National Geographic and Ford. Ms. Figueres holds a Bachelors Degree from Swarthmore College and a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics.
- SCOTT HEMPLING is executive director of the National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI), and formerly led a prestigious law practice in Washington, D.C. which provided legal and policy advice to public and private sector players involved in regulated industries, with an emphasis on market structure, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, ratemaking, diversification and State-federal jurisdictional issues. Mr. Hempling has appeared numerous times before committees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives; and before legislative committees in many states. Since 1997, he offers annual introductory and advances seminars in electricity law, which are attended by practitioners from all sectors and professional disciplines within the electric industry. He holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a recipient of an American Jurisprudence award for Constitutional Law; and a B.A. cum laude in Economics and Political Science from Yale University. He is a past member of the Research Advisory Committee of the National Regulatory Research Institute and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Electricity Journal.
- SHELLEY LYNN KATH is an environmental lawyer and strategic advisor in with extensive legal training in public and private international law. She is a member of the Quebec Bar and holds law degrees in both civil law and common law from McGill University. Two of her publications in the area of private international law are cited frequently in the Canadian courts and have been cited on approvingly on several occasions by the Supreme Court of Canada. Since 2005, however, her primary focus has been environment and energy law and policy. Ms. Kath is the founder and former Executive Director of The Climate Project - Canada, an offshoot of the organization created by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, and continues to erve as pro bono International Strategic Advisor to The Climate Project headquarters in Nashville,Tennessee. She was formerly an associate with the global law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin in its environment and strategic counsel divisions, where she also developed a specialty in lobbying law and regulations. As a former lobbyist and Legislative Director of the Sierra Club in New York State, Ms. Kath has substantial first-hand experience with negotiations on environmental law and policy. She is author of chapters on global environmental agreements in the upcoming book, Global Collaborations in Managing Chemical and Environmental Risks, slated for publication by the Taylor and Francis Group in summer 2010 (Philip Wexler, Jan van der Kolk, Asish Mohapatra and Ravi Agarwal, editors).
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about helios \ team
Cofounder of the Helios Centre, Philip Raphals has extensive experience in many aspects of sustainable energy policy, including least-cost energy planning, competitive market design, utility regulation (including transmission ratemaking) and green power certification. He is the author of numerous studies and reports and frequently appears as an expert witness in the regulatory arena. He has explored in detail the interaction between competition and regulation as well as the environmental implications of electricity trade.