Graduate Professional Council (GPC)

You are invited to attend a symposium discussing the substantial immediate investment

needed to develop and deploy emerging energy technologies and energy resources
while preserving the environment and assuring energy security.

America’s Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities
Monday, November 2, 2009

May Auditorium in Simon Hall
Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus

11:30 a.m. Registration
12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Symposium
Reception to follow in the Danforth University Center

Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and vice chair of the National Resource Council (NRC) committee on America's energy challenges, will open the symposium with a presentation on “America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation,” a recent report from the NRC America’s Energy Future (AEF) Project.


Leaders from the private and public sectors will respond:

• Richard A. Meserve, AEF committee member, president of the Carnegie Institution, and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission


• Maxine L. Savitz, AEF committee member, vice president of the National Academy of Engineering, and member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

• Charles K. Ebinger, director of the Energy Security Initiative, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and former energy policy advisor to more than 50 governments


• Martha Schlicher, vice president, biofuels, Monsanto

• Steven F. Leer, president and CEO, Arch Coal

• Fred Palmer, senior vice president of government relations, Peabody Energy


• Dan Cole, senior vice president, Ameren Corporation

Admission is free, but reservations are required. Please make your reservation at wustl.edu/energyfuture.