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Session 4:Energy
Presentations
Margot Anderson, How to Find EIA's Energy Statistics (PDF, 2.2 MB)
Thomas Kevin Swift, Case Study: Chemicals (PDF, 860 K)
Ronald J. Planting, Using Energy Data at API: leveraging government data (PDF, 139 K)
Links of Interest
Speakers
Margot Anderson
Director, Office of Energy Markets and End Use
Energy Information Agency
Margot Anderson is currently, Director, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Office of Energy Markets and End Use is responsible for publishing short-term energy forecasts, collecting and publishing comprehensive domestic and international energy statistics, analyzing international energy markets, conducting national energy consumption surveys, and publishing energy consumption data and analysis -- all of which are widely used by public and private sector customers. Prior to joining the Energy Information Administration, Margot was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Analysis, Office of Policy and International Affairs, Department of Energy (from 2000 to 2004) where she worked on a wide range of energy and environmental policy issues. From 1998-2000, Margot was Director of the Global Change Program Office at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). From 1987-2000, Margot held various staff and management positions at the Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture. Her accomplishments as a career senior executive at USDA and DOE have been recognized with a Presidential Rank Award and a DOE Secretarial Gold Medal award. Margot received her PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois in 1987.
Thomas Kevin Swift
American Chemistry Council
A native of Buffalo, New York, Dr. Swift is a graduate of Ashland College with a BA degree and a graduate of Case Western Reserve University with a MA degree in Economics. He has also completed the Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting Program and other studies at Harvard University, as well as a DBA (doctorate in business administration) at Anglia Polytechnic University.
Dr. Swift is employed by the American Chemistry Council in Arlington, Virginia where he is responsible for economic and other analyses dealing with various business, trade, tax, energy, and related issues. He is also responsible for monitoring business conditions and industry structure, as well as identifying emerging trends. Dr. Swift is also involved in collection and dissemination of industry data, information and analysis to member companies, the media, and the public in general.
Prior to joining the American Chemistry Council, Dr. Swift held several executive and senior level positions at several business information/database companies, directing business research, forecasting, and consulting efforts as well as domestic and international business forecasting services and related on-line databases. He also conducted industrial market research and related projects. Dr. Swift started his career at Dow Chemical USA.
Dr. Swift is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and is a member of NABE's panel of 40 professional forecasters and a participant in the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's forecasters' survey. He is also a member of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association and the Société de Chimie Industrielle. Dr. Swift is also on the editorial advisory board of Chemical Management Review and has authored articles in such diverse journals as Business Economics, Chemistry Business, Chimica Oggi, Cost Engineering, and Hydrocarbon Processing, among others. He has also appeared on Bloomberg TV.
Ronald J. Planting
Manager Information & Analysis
American Petroleum Institute
Ron Planting is Manager of Information and Analysis with the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C. He currently analyzes trends in energy supply and demand for API, provides print, radio and television interviews and briefings on related topics, and oversees API’s widely-followed weekly data on petroleum supplies and API’s monthly analysis of U.S. petroleum supply and demand. He has also facilitated committees of energy industry financial executives in the area of auditing, insurance, and risk management.
He has an MA Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; an in MS Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a BA Economics, College of William and Mary.
He is President, National Capital Area Chapter, U.S. Association for Energy Economics.
