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Commonwealth Club of California

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Ralph Cavanagh

Ralph Cavanagh joined the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1979. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School; he has also been a faculty member for the University of Idaho�s Public Utility Executives Course for more than a decade. He received the Heinz Award for Public Policy, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners� Mary Kilmarx Award, Yale Law School�s Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, Lifetime Achievement in Energy Efficiency Award from California�s Flex Your Power Campaign, Northwest Energy Coalition�s Headwaters Award, and Bonneville Power Administration�s Award for Exceptional Public Service. Cavanagh is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

Angie Howard

Angie Howard is the Vice President in the Office of the President and Executive Adviser to the President of the Nuclear Energy Institute. Howard, who joined NEI in 1996, has had previous responsibilities for the organization's communications, external affairs and member relations activities. Before joining NEI, Howard was vice president and director of industry relations and information services for the Atlanta-based Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). She also was involved in the formation of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) and the development of communications activities for the WANO-Atlanta Center, which is collocated with INPO. Before joining INPO in 1980, she was employed by Duke Power Company from 1969 to 1980.

Lindsay Riddell

Lindsay Riddell is a reporter or the San Francisco Business Times.

Geoffrey Rothwell

Geoffrey Rothwell has taught at Stanford since 1986. He is a senior lecturer and director of the honors programs in the Department of Economics and the Public Policy Program. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, 1985-1986. He has published dozens of articles on all aspects of nuclear economics, including the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle, and nuclear power plant construction and operating costs, productivity, reliability, and decommissioning. His current research focuses on nuclear power competitiveness under electricity deregulation, industry restructuring, and carbon dioxide emissions reduction.