Talk Power 07 speakers and presentations Click here to watch the highlights from the Talk Power Conference John Humphrys, Conference Chairman John Humphrys was the first of the BBC's journalists to present front-line news programmes on both television and radio: Today on Radio Four and Television News on BBC 1. He presents On the Record on BBC 1, On The Ropes and The John Humphrys Interview on Radio Four plus other things besides. In one five-day period he presented Today, The Six O'Clock News, Panorama, On The Record, and the Nine O'Clock News. But he insists he's not a workaholic - just a work enthusiast! For ten years John was a foreign correspondent with the BBC and he has reported on most international events, from the Watergate crisis and the resignation of Richard Nixon to the first free elections in South Africa, revolutions in Latin America and assorted wars in all parts of the globe. He chairs conferences and debates on a wide range of subjects and he makes what he modestly describes as brilliantly witty after-dinner speeches.   Bill Coley, Chief Executive Officer, British Energy Group Plc Bill Coley was appointed Chief Executive in March 2005 having served as an independent non-executive director since 2003. During his career with Duke Power he held a variety of management and executive roles culminating in being Group President between 1997 and 2003. He is a non-executive director of CT Communications Inc., and Peabody Energy.   Download presentation     Tom Crotty, Chairman, INEOS Chlor Ltd Tom joined ICI in 1979, from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and worked in ICI's Agricultural and Plastics businesses. In 1996, he became Managing Director of ICI's Flurochemicals business and was made Chief Executive of INEOS Fluor when INEOS purchased the business in January 2001. In early  2003, Tom  was appointed Chief Executive Officer of INEOS Chlor in addition to his role in INEOS Fluor. In 2005 Tom was appointed Chief Executive Officer of INEOS Olefins and also Chairman of INEOS ChlorVinyls and INEOS Fluor.   Anthony Hilton, Financial Editor, Evening Standard Anthony has worked in newspapers for 39 years, most of the time as a financial journalist. He also spent three years in New York working for The Times and Sunday Times covering finance but working also as a mainstream reporter. He covered everything from the Iranian Hostage crisis, to the guerrilla wars in Guatemala and El Salvador, to the shooting of John Lennon and to the British challenge for the Americas Cup yacht races. In 1989 he became Managing Director, a position he held for six years until the yearning to get out of management and back into journalism became too much and he returned to his earlier position as Financial Editor of the London Evening Standard. Anthony is currently a business commentator within the City Pages of the Evening Standard. Courtesy of The Evening Standard   Download presentation   Nigel Cornwall, Director, Cornwall Energy Associates Nigel is Cornwall Energy Associates Managing Director and a well respected independent commentator on competitive market issues. He has extensive experience of energy restructuring in the UK and internationally in both the public and private sectors, especially governance related aspects. As a civil servant, he was actively involved in the initial electricity vesting process in the UK and oversaw the establishment of NGC. He spent much of the 1990s working overseas, involved in energy sector reform in a range of emerging and developed markets but principally in Australia and New Zealand. Nigel specialises in issues connected with market design, including the role of network operators and market operations in deregulated markets, the interfaces between them and the associated legal, regulatory, commercial and governance frameworks.  His expertise and reputation have seen him elected twice as an independent industry member of the British Electricity Balancing and Settlement Code Panel.   Neil O’Hara, Trading Director, British Energy Group plc Neil was appointed as Power and Energy Trading Director for British Energy in May 2004. He has over ten years trading and risk management experience in the energy sector including the power, coal and gas sectors. His trading experience was gained in the UK and US whilst working at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, British Gas, Natural Gas Clearinghouse (Dynergy), Accord/Centrica and RWE. He has also worked on generation optimisation, co-firing and operations and engineering projects. Steve Moore, General Manager, Commercial British Energy Power and Energy Trading Steve joined British Energy to work on the new build Sizewell B project in 1994 following the completion of an MSc in Environment, Policy and Planning at Bath University. He started trading under the old electricity pool scheme in 1995, then moved to help set up our wholesale trading desk and continued to trade through NETA. Steve is now General Manager, commercially responsible for our 3 strategic routes to market; Wholesale, Retail and Structuring and Origination and BEPET’s Commodity Research team.     Download presentation     Mark Kenber, Policy Director, The Climate Group Mark is an economist who has worked on environmental issues for over a decade in non-governmental organisations, and in both the public and private sectors. Immediately prior to joining The Climate Group, Mark was Senior Policy Officer at WWF’s International Climate Change Programme, focusing on carbon market and finance issues and coordinating the Programme’s economics-related work. He was also Director of Planning at Fundacion Natura, Ecuador’s largest environmental organisation, acting as climate change advisor to the Ecuadorian government and to a wide range of consultancies. Mark is an occasional lecturer at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies and also serves on the advisory boards of a number of environmental organisations.   Download presentation     Andrew Bainbridge, Director General, Major Energy Users Council Andrew Bainbridge set up the Major Energy Users’ Council shortly after gas was privatised. He and his team are now celebrating its 20th birthday as Europe’s leading energy network and lobby group. He is a member of the Government’s Business Energy Forum, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman and Past Master of The Worshipful Company of Fuellers and a Past Provost of the Honourable Society of Masters. He is also Chair of the Power Efficiency buying consultancy.     Download presentation     Cathy McClay, Head of Commodity Research, British Energy Cathy McClay joined British Energy in 2006 as Head of Commodity Research. Her team, which includes Transmission & Trading Arrangements, Fundamental Analysis and Quantative Analysis are central to the running of British Energy Power & Energy Trading, providing the analysis for much of the pricing and decision making which underpins the business. After completing her PhD at Cambridge, Cathy lectured in Electrical Engineering initially at Cambridge, followed by Imperial College London. She joined Edison Mission Energy in 1999 first as a Business Modeller, managing primarily coal plant modelling and eventually as Business Strategy Manager, where she looked at ways of using investments, trading strategies and analysis to improve decision making within the company. After completing an MBA at Manchester Business School, Cathy accepted the role of Head of Fundamental Analysis at Nuon, a major electricity supplier based in Amsterdam.   Download presentation     Michael Staines, Executive Director, Corporate Services and Real Estate, Goldman Sachs Michael is an Executive Director working in procurement within the Corporate Services and Real Estate department at Goldman Sachs. Michael, who is based in London, has worked within the procurement team at Goldman Sachs for seven years. Procurement of electricity for the firm's European headquarters in the City of London is one aspect of a diverse and ever-changing regional and global work portfolio that includes construction, facilities and business services, security and general vendor and contract management. His focus over the last couple of years on energy procurement has led to an enhancement of the profile of the procurement and commercial group with a wide range of internal clients in the firm. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Michael worked at NatWest Group Property     Download presentation     John Hall, Managing Director, John Hall Associates John Hall is Fellow of the Energy Institute, a Member of the Market Research Society, a Member of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. After several years in industrial market research with Merrett Cyriax Associates, Management Consultants, he set up John Hall Associates in 1973, now one of the principal consultancies operating within the UK and across Continental Europe with partners in the US, Fellon-McCord, part of the Constellation Energy Group. As part of his role in JHA, he is a regular market commentator, writer and conference speaker and has written several publications, including Reducing Industrial Oil Costs (Gower Technical Press), in 1987 with Dr. Graham Hankinson. Tim McManan-Smith, Group Editor with Progressive Media Tim has worked on energy publications for Progressive Media for the last 8 years. He is currently editor of the UK's leading energy efficiency publication - Water Energy & Environment and also works over the Group's other energy titles: Energy Procurement Excellence, Energy Efficient Solutions, Water Efficient Solutions. He is also involved in organising the successful energy exhibition and conference, The Energy Event 2007. Prior to working at Progressive Media Tim has written for leading engineering and science publication. He holds a BSc(Hons) in Physics from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in Philosophy and History of Science from King's College London.