Who We Are
At RWA, we strive to create a discussion platform that will shed light on some of the most pressing issues of our time. To help us achieve this goals, we enlist the knowledge and expertiese of leading researchers, businesses, and individuals.
RWA Guest Experts |
|
||||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Simmons: |
Matthew Simmons Matthew R. Simmons is Chairman of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. The firm has completed approximately 694 investment banking projects for its worldwide energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $101.1 billion, including 490 mergers and acquisitions totaling $68.9 billion. Mr. Simmons’ recently published book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy has been listed on the Wall Street Journal’s best-seller list. He has also published numerous energy papers for industry journals and is a frequent speaker at government forums, energy symposiums and in boardrooms of many leading energy companies around the world. Read Matthew Simmons' Full Bio |
||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Deffeyes: |
Prof. Kenneth Deffeyes Kenneth S. Deffeyes is a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert of Hubbert's peak fame, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. Deffeyes holds a B.S. in petroleum geology from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University under F.B. van Houten. In 1967 he began teaching at Princeton, where he is now professor emeritus. He claims Chickasaw ancestry. In John McPhee's 1981 book Basin and Range (about the origin of Basin and Range topography), Prof. Deffeyes helps explain geological science to McPhee through explaining road cuts associated with Interstate highway I-80. Read Ken Deffeyes' full Biography Online. |
||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
|||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Gilbert: |
Jeremy John Gilbert Jerry Gilbert was educated in Ireland. After experience as a petroleum engineer in Libya, the US, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi he spent most of the 1970s in Khuzestan, Iran seconded to ‘Oil Service Company of Iran’, a consortium of international oil companies, initially as a reservoir engineer and later as Planning Manager. His responsibilities included performance evaluation and development optimization of fields as old as MiS (the first-discovered Iranian oilfield, in 1908) and as large as Ahwaz (over 55 billion barrels in-place). Subsequently, based in Aberdeen from 1979, he was responsible as Manager Petroleum Engineering for all of BP Exporation’s petroleum and reservoir engineering activities in the UK North Sea before transferring in 1986 to BP Alaska Exploration in San Francisco as Vice President (Production). There, in addition to representing his company on the Owner’s Committees for the very large Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk fields, he was responsible for development projects onshore and offshore California. After a period in Dorset, England as Deputy Director for the development of Europe’s largest onshore field, at Wytch Farm in southern England, he became BP’s Chief Petroleum Engineer in 1989. From 1995 to end 2000 he was based in Anchorage with BP (Alaska) Exploration Inc. and occupied a series of senior management posts in special projects while acting as an advisor to the company President.
|
||||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Andrews: |
Steve Andrews Steve Andrews has been a Denver-based energy consultant and freelance writer for over 25 years. After interviewing Dr. M. King Hubbert at his home during the 1980s, Steve steadily followed the world oil picture. He began speaking and writing about world oil issues during the 1990s and he co-chaired Denver's "World Oil Forum: When Will Global Oil Production Peak?" in 1998. After attending and presenting at previous European ASPO Conferences, he helped establish ASPO-USA in 2005. Visit ASPO-USA online. |
||||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Heinberg: |
Richard Heinberg Author of nine books, including The Party's Over, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout, Richard Heinberg is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. With a wry, unflinching approach based on facts and realism, Mr. Heinberg exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and offers a vision for a truly sustainable future. Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, Mr. Heinberg is best known as a leading educator on Peak Oil - the point at which we reach maximum global oil production - and the resulting, devastating impact it will have on our economic, food, and transportation systems. But his expertise is far ranging, covering critical issues including the current economic crisis, food and agriculture, community resilience, and global climate change. Mr. Heinberg is a much sought-after speaker and has presented in dozens of countries and across the United States. He's featured in many documentaries, including End of Suburbia and Leonardo DiCaprio's film 11th Hour. Mr. Heinberg has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, Canadian Broadcasting Television, BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Al Jazeera, as well as numerous radio programs (national NPR) and print publications (Time magazine). |
||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
|||||||||||||||
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Swenson: |
Ron Swenson Ron Swenson develops and markets methodologies, technologies, and products that advance sustainability based on solar (renewable) energy and conservation of natural resources. Career Summary Solar Education Commercial Solar Installations Visit SolarQuest® Online. Visit Ron Swenson's Projects Online |
||||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Batra: |
Ravi Batra Ravi N. Batra is a U.S. economist, best-selling author and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his book The Great Depression of 1990 in which he predicted a sharp rise in the US stock market in the 1980s, followed by a cataclysmic drop and a depression in or around 1990. Batra's main thesis, also in his recent work, is that Financial capitalism, which breeds excessive inequality and political corruption, inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression. The solution is a social system envisoned by his spiritual mentor P.R. Sarkar. Ravi Batra has appeared on CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, and CNBC and has been profiled in The New York Times, Time, as well as Newsweek. Ravi Batra is the author of six international bestsellers, two of which appeared on the New York Times list. Read Professor Batra's Full Bio Online. |
||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
|||||||||||||||
Watch Interviews with Mr. Hirsch: |
Robert L. Hirsch Dr. Robert L. Hirsch is a former senior energy program advisor for Science Applications International Corporation and is a Senior Energy Advisor at MISI and a consultant in energy, technology, and management. His primary experience is in research, development, and commercial applications. He has managed technology programs in oil and natural gas exploration and petroleum refining, synthetic fuels, fusion, fission, renewables, defense technologies, chemical analysis, and basic research. Dr. Hirsch has served as a consultant and on advisory committees for government and industry. He is past Chairman of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies, has served on a number of National Research Council committees, and is a National Associate of the National Academies. In recent years, he has focused on problems associated with the peaking of world conventional oil production and its mitigation. Read The Hirsch Report on The Peaking of World Oil Production Online. Robert Hirsch is a member of ASPO-USA. Read more about Dr.Hirsch online. |
||||||||||||||||
