Friday, November 20, 2009
3:00 p.m.
129 DeBartolo Hall
Guy Caruso
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Guy F. Caruso is a senior adviser in the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, having served as executive director of the CSIS Strategic Energy Initiative from 1998 to 2000. Prior to rejoining CSIS he served as administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) from July 2002 to September 2008, EIA is the statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that provides independent data, forecasts, and analyses regarding energy. Before leading EIA, Caruso had acquired over 30 years of energy experience, with particular emphasis on topics relating to energy markets, policy, and security. He first joined DOE as a senior energy economist in the Office of International Affairs and soon became director of the Office of Market Analysis. Other leadership roles at DOE included director of the Office of Oil and Natural Gas Policy in the Office of Domestic and International Energy Policy and director of the Office of Energy Emergency Policy Evaluation. Prior to joining DOE, Caruso worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an international energy economist in the Office of Economic Research. In addition, before joining EIA, he was also director of the National Energy Strategy (NES) project for the U.S. Energy Association (USEA). During this time, he spearheaded the USEA publication Toward a National Energy Strategy, which was released in February 2001, and a follow-up study entitled National Energy Strategy Post 9/11, which was released in July 2002. In January 2008, he was awarded the French National Order of Merit.
Caruso has also worked at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), first as the head of the Oil Industry Division, where he was responsible for analyzing world oil supply/demand and developments in the oil industry, and later as director of the Office of Non-member Countries, where he directed studies of energy-related developments in emerging economies. Caruso holds a B.S. in business administration and an M.S. in economics from the University of Connecticut. He also earned an M.P.A. from Harvard University.
Raymond C. Scheppach, Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Governors Association
Ray Scheppach has led NGA since 1983. As Executive Director he oversees day-to-day operations of NGA, managing all aspects of the association and the NGA Center for Best Practices. Ray also facilitates the association's efforts to achieve the three major missions of producing information and analysis of state innovations and practices, creating a bipartisan forum for governors to establish and implement policy on federal issues and assisting governors in managing state government. Ray has particular expertise in federalism, state and federal budgets, health care policy, energy policy and competitiveness in the world economy.
Previous to NGA, Ray served for seven years at the Congressional Budget Office, including two years as Deputy Director. Vice President and Senior Consultant for Economic Studies at Jack Faucett Associates. Economist with The Standard Oil Company (Ohio). He earned his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Maine, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut.
Thomas A. Gresik
Professor of Economics and Econometrics
University of Notre Dame
Thomas Gresik is a professor in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Notre Dame. He is a fellow in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Institute for Educational Initiatives, a faculty member in the Energy Center and in the GLOBES program, a federally funded interdisciplinary program that studies the linkages between biology, the environment, and society. Gresik earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Northwestern University in 1981, a M.S. in social sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 1982, and a Ph.D. in managerial economics and decision sciences from Northwestern University in 1987. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, he was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and The Pennsylvania State University. Professor Gresik studies the effect of private information on the performance of markets and regulations. His current research focuses on the economics of multinational corporations and international tax competition. His research has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the International Economic Review. He is an associate editor for the European Economic Review and International Tax and Public Finance. Professor Gresik has advised the European Central Bank, the Norwegian Oil Tax Office, and the Norwegian Ministry of Energy. He has been the Chair of the Faculty Senate since 2008.