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3:30-4:45 pm Salon E
This session will concentrate on the North American energy markets, their security, future supply, demand and price, and the impact of alternative energy policies.
Alison Nathan Slides (229 K)
Yorgos Papatheodorou, Chief Economist, Lockwood Greene, moderator
Donald A. Hanson
Economist
Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Hanson is an economist at Argonne National Laboratory specializing in modeling impacts of energy-intensive technologies and interactions of energy and the economy. Dr. Hanson is also an Adjunct Professor of Economics at DePaul University and has consulted with the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago and with the Global Business Network. Previously, he taught at Ohio State University and Southern Methodist University and has worked at the Central Bureau of Statistics in Norway. He holds Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees from University of Illinois in Urbana, an M.B.A. degree from University of Chicago, and was an NSF visiting scholar at M.I.T.
Allison Nathan
Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Company
Andre Plourde
Professor and Chair, Economics Department
University of Alberta
André Plourde is Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Alberta. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of New Brunswick, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of British Columbia.
After serving as assistant professor and research associate at the University of Toronto from 1983 to 1987, he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa. In 1997, André undertook a one-year assignment as Director of Economic Studies and Policy Analysis with the federal Department of Finance. He joined the University of Alberta in 1998, where he helped launch the Natural Resources and Energy specialization within the School of Business's MBA program. During academic year 2003-2004, André took a one-year leave from academic life and was appointed Associate Assistant Deputy Minister for the Energy sector at Natural Resources Canada.
André has served on numerous advisory committees and was recently re-elected Vice President and Treasurer of the International Association for Energy Economics. His research interests have centered mainly on energy economics and on Canadian energy and environmental policy issues.
