PAST EVENT
In Pursuit of a Sustainable Energy Future
Lecture
Series: Future of Energy Speaker Series
Open to the Public - Science Center Lecture Hall D, One Oxford Street
http://www.environment.harvard.edu/events/futureenergy.htm
October 6, 2008
5:00-7:00 p.m.
| Speaker: | John W. Rowe, Chairman and CEO, Exelon Energy Corporation |
Description:
Finding secure, safe and reliable sources of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions.
The Future of Energy lecture series is sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment with generous support from Bank of America. All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
Speaker Info:
John W. Rowe, 63, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation, a utility holding company headquartered in Chicago. Exelon has the largest market capitalization in the electric utility industry. Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and its generation affiliate operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the nation.
Rowe is the senior chief executive in the utility industry, having served in such positions since 1984. Rowe has led Exelon since its formation in 2000 through the merger of PECO Energy and the parent of Commonwealth Edison. Rowe previously held chief executive officer positions at the New England Electric System and Central Maine Power Company, served as general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation, and was a partner in the law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. Rowe serves as chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, is a past chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, and is a co-chairman of the National Commission on Energy Policy, an industry and environmental organization dealing with climate change. He is a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company. In January 2008, Institutional Investor named Rowe the best electric utilities CEO in America.
Contact:
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Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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