“Chinese Energy and Economic Challenges: Is the World in Denial?”

“Chinese Energy and Economic Challenges: Is the World in Denial?” Speaker Biographies Mr. Edward C. Chow, Senior Fellow, CSIS Energy Program Edward C. Chow is an international energy expert with 30 years of oil industry experience. He has worked in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. He specializes in government policy and business strategy, particularly on investments in emerging economies and international oil and gas negotiations. He spent 20 years working with the Chevron Corporation in the United States and overseas. Mr. Chow is a graduate of Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s in international affairs. He has published articles in leading academic and policy journals, both domestic and foreign, and spoken at energy conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Turkey, and China. Dr. James P. Dorian, International Energy Economist, Washington, D.C. James P. Dorian is a Washington, D.C.-based International Energy Economist specializing in Eurasian oil, gas, and coal issues, alternative fuels and advanced energy technologies, and economic development. With twenty-five years experience in analyzing energy markets and policies, Dorian is an expert on energy and economic strategies of China, the former Soviet Union, and Europe, and the geopolitical forces affecting the global energy industry. Prior to his relocation to Washington in 2003, Dr. Dorian was a senior energy economist with the State of Hawaii Government in Honolulu, where he managed collaborative projects on energy efficiency and renewable energy between Hawaii and China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Before that, Dorian was a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he served as Coordinator of the Center’s China Energy Project and the Central Asia and Caucasia Energy and Minerals Project. In 1997 Dr. Dorian was based in Uzbekistan and served as the Chief Energy Sector Specialist of an Asian Development Bank study of economic cooperation prospects in Central Asia and Xinjiang, China. Dr. Dorian has more than 95 publications, and he earned his doctorate degree in Resource Economics from the University of Hawaii. Mr. Malcolm Shealy, Senior Associate, PCI, Arlington Malcolm Shealy is a Senior Associate at the consulting firm PCI, based in Arlington. He has more than two decades of experience analyzing world energy markets, demand-side

energy technologies, and alternative fuels. His work on world energy markets has recently focused on projections of energy demand in developing countries. Mr. Shealy has advised Department of Energy and other U.S. government officials on long-term energy forecasts. He has published on energy and environmental issues through the International Association of Energy Economists (IAEE). Mr. Shealy is a member of the IAEE and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His education spans engineering and economics at both Duke and Stanford Universities.