Leadership

Current Council

President

Eric Hittinger

Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Public Policy
Rochester Institute of Technology

 

President-Elect

Dean Foreman

Chief Economist
Texas Oil and Gas Association

 

Immediate Past President

Helen Currie

Chief Economist
ConocoPhillips

 

Secretary-Treasurer

Tina Vital

Managing Director
Castle Placement, LLC

 

Vice President, Conferences

Greg Upton

Interim Executive Director & Associate Professor-Research
LSU Center for Energy Studies

 

Vice President, Academic Affairs

Lucy Qiu

Professor
University of Maryland College Park

 

Vice President, Communications

Anna Broughel

Lecturer in Sustainable Energy Transition Policy
School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University

 

Vice President, Business

Amy Brock

Market Intelligence Advisor
Chevron Services Company

 

Vice President, Government

Michael Plante

Senior Research Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

 

Vice President, Membership and Chapter Liaison

Anastacio Baleva

Senior Advisor
ConocoPhillips

 

Council Members

Michael Cohen

Chief US Economist
BP

Travis Fisher

Director of Energy and Environmental Policy Studies
Cato Institute

Karr Ingham

Petroleum Economist and Executive VP
Texas Alliance of Energy Producers

 

 

Past Leadership

2023: Helen Currie, ConocoPhillips

2022: Peter Balash, US Department of Energy - NETL

2021: Howard Gruenspecht, MIT Energy Initiative

2020:  Amy Myers Jaffe, Tufts University

2019:  Marianne Kah, Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy

2018:  Guy F. Caruso, CSIS

2017:  Shree Vikas, ConocoPhillips, Inc

2016:  James Smith, Southern Methodist University

2015:  Troy N. Thompson, Chevron

2014:  Michael E. Canes, Logistics Management Institute

2013:  Lori Smith Schell, Empowered Energy

2012:  Peter R. Hartley, Rice University

2011:  Benjamin Schlesinger, Benjamin Schlesinger & Assoc LLC

2010:  Charles Greer Rossmann, Southern Company

2009:  Joseph M. Dukert, Energy Analyst

2008:  Omowumi O. Iledare, LSU Center for Energy Studies

2007:  Peter Nance, Teknecon Energy Risk Advisors LLC

2006:  Shirley Neff, CEMTPP, Columbia University

2005:  Marianne S. Kah, ConocoPhillips, Inc.

2004:  Mine K. Yucel, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2003:  Adam E. Sieminski, Deutsche Bank AG

2002:  Arnold B. Baker, Sandia National Laboratories

2001:  Michelle Michot Foss, University of Houston

2000:  David J. DeAngelo, PPL Generation, LLC

1999:  Michael C. Lynch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1998:  Leonard L. Coburn, U.S. Department of Energy

1997:  Hillard G. Huntington, Stanford University

1996:  Kathleen B. Cooper, Exxon Corporation

1994-95:  Dennis J. O'Brien, Caltex Petroleum

1992-93:  Anthony J. Finizza, Atlantic Richfield Company

Committees