Helge Lund, President and CEO of StatoilHydro, and Francis Saville, Chairman of the Board at Nexen Inc., participate in a discussion of developing sustainable practices in their respective companies.
William Hogan, Professor of Global Energy Policy, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University moderates.
Bio
William Hogan
Professor Hogan is Research Director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG), which is exploring the issues involved in the transition to a more competitive electricity market. In addition, he serves as Chair of the Kennedy School Appointments Committee.
Previously he has served as Director of Graduate Studies for the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and the Ph.D. Program in Political Economy and Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Chair of the Public Policy Program, Director of the Repsol YPF - Harvard Kennedy School Fellows Program for energy policy research, a member of the organizing committee for the Repsol YPF-Harvard Energy Policy Seminar, and as Director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center.
Professor Hogan has been actively engaged in the design and improvement of competitive electricity markets in many regions of the United States, as well as around the world, from England to Australia. His activities include designing the market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services, and financial transmission rights.
Helge Lund
Helge Lund is the Chief Executive Officer for the StatoilHydro group. He started his career as a consultant for McKinsey & Company and as political adviser for the Conservative Party in Storting before starting work for Hafslund Nycomed in 1993.
In 1997-8 he was Vice President in Nycomed Pharma before starting work in Aker RGI in 1999 as Vice President before becoming CEO for Aker Kværner in 2002.
Francis Saville
Francis Saville, Chair of Nexen, is counsel with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, Barristers and Solicitors. He joined the firm in 1965 and had an extensive practice in the areas of energy and environmental law, as well as municipal law and land-use planning. He specialized in representing energy corporations in regulatory applications.
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