Dan Brouillette served as the 15th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. Secretary Brouillette has three decades of experience in both the public and private sector. Most recently he was the Deputy Secretary of Energy.

He also served as the Senior Vice President and head of public policy for USAA, the Nation’s leading provider of financial services to the military community. Before joining USAA, Secretary Brouillette was a Vice President of Ford Motor Company, where he led the automaker’s domestic policy teams and served on its North American Operating Committee.

At Ford and USAA, he was part of senior management teams that helped bring to market innovative technologies like auto collision avoidance and remote deposit capture, a technology invented by USAA that allows the use of smart devices to deposit funds into our banking accounts.

Before his transition into the private sector, Secretary Brouillette held numerous positions in government.  He was Chief of Staff to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, which has broad jurisdictional and oversight authority over five Cabinet-level Federal agencies.  He also served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs from 2001 to 2003.  In addition, he is a former state energy regulator, having served as a member of the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board from 2013 to 2016.

Secretary Brouillette and his wife, Adrienne, are both U.S. Army veterans and have been married for 28 years. They hail from San Antonio, TX, and have nine children.

Bradley T. Ewing holds the C.T. McLaughlin Endowed Chair of Free Enterprise and is Professor of Energy Commerce and Business Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. He is Associate Editor of Energy Economics and a founding editor of the Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis. His research primarily focuses on the economics of energy, infrastructure, and natural hazards.

He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and has over 10,000 citations. Dr. Ewing is the recipient of grants and funding from sponsors including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Economic Development Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Rural Water Association, Permian Basin Petroleum Association, and the Texas Pipeline Association.  His work is at the forefront of integrating economics with engineering and physical sciences. Professor Ewing received his Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University.

Shon Hiatt is an associate professor of business administration and faculty affiliate of the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He researches entrepreneurship, global strategy, innovation and sustainability primarily within natural resource sectors.

Hiatt is Director of the Zage Business of Energy Initiative where he leads a multidisciplinary team of faculty, students, and industry partners to advance solutions in global energy with a focus on business value creation through balancing energy security, safety, reliability, affordability, and cleanliness.

He has received several awards for his scholarship and teaching, such as the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, the Academy of Management and ARCS Emerging Scholar Awards, and the Golden Apple Teaching Award.

Hiatt is a Visiting Fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics and Distinguished Fellow at the Hamm Institute. Prior to joining USC, he was a faculty member at Harvard Business School.

Robert (RJ) Johnston is the Director of Energy and Natural Resources at the School of Public Policy (SPP) at the University of Calgary.

Johnston is a recognized leader in global energy and natural resources policy, geopolitics, and corporate strategy. He was previously Senior Director of Research at the Center on Global Energy Policy at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Before that he served for 15 years as founding director of the Eurasia Group’s Energy, Climate and Resources practice and was the firm’s CEO from 2013 to 2018.

Prior to the Eurasia Group, Johnston worked as managing director of equity research at Medley Global Advisors, was a research director at UBS Warburg Energy, directed internal research at Enron Global Markets, and directed political risk research at ArmorGroup.

He is an independent advisor to the First Nations Climate Initiative in Canada. He also serves as a counselor for the Canada-U.S. Trade Council and is a member of the Trilateral Commission. From 2017-2021, he was a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. He was project director for the Aspen Institute’s task force on US critical minerals policy in 2023.

Johnston holds a doctorate in international relations from American University, a master’s degree in political science from McMaster University, and an undergraduate degree in political studies from Bishop’s University.

Mark is the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a contributing editor at City Journal, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering, and co-founding partner in Montrose Lane.

His online PragerU videos have been viewed over 10 million times. He is author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s, (2021). Previous books include Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era, (2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well, (co-authored with Peter Huber, 2005), about which Bill Gates said, “This is the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy.”

He served as Chairman/CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mark served in President Reagan’s White House Science Office and, earlier, was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents. He earned his physics degree from Queen’s University, Canada.

Dr Amrita Sen is the Founder and Director of Market Intelligence at Energy Aspects, a global research house that advises over 700 companies globally on energy markets and geopolitics. Amrita leads development of Energy Aspect’s views on crude, oil products, natural gas and carbon markets, as well as wider energy transition, policy, politics and macroeconomics landscape. She has led Energy Aspects to be recognised globally as the premier energy research shop, winning the Energy Risk award for Commodities Research House of the Year twice in the last 10 years, the latest one being in 2025. Energy Aspects has been ranked #15 in the Top 200 Women-Powered UK Businesses for 2025, with over 400 employees and 10 offices globally.

Nobuo Tanaka is Chairman of the steering committee of the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF), which was established by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014. He was Chairman and President of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation for 2015-2020.  As Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) from 2007 to 2011, he initiated a collective release of oil stocks in June 2011. He also played a crucial and personal role in the strengthening of ties with major non-Member energy players, including China and India.

He began his career in 1973 in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and has served in a number of high-ranking positions, including Director-General of the Multilateral Trade System Department. He was deeply engaged in bilateral trade issues with the US as Minister for Industry, Trade and Energy at the Embassy of Japan, Washington DC. He has also served twice as Director for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the Paris-based international organization, OECD. As CEO of Tanaka Global Inc, he advises several Japanese and International companies.

He graduated from University of Tokyo and have MBA from Case Western Reserve University.  He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at Center on Global Energy Policy, Collumbia University and Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). He chairs Study Group on Next Generation Nuclear Energy Utilization at Canon Institute of Global Studies (CIGS).