Canadian Nuclear Association Seminar 2008

Speakers Corner

	Stewart Brand Stewart Brand is a co-founder and managing director of Global Business Network, founded and runs the GBN Book Club, and is the president of The Long Now Foundation. Brand is well known for founding, editing and publishing the Whole Earth Catalog, which received a National Book Award for the 1972 issue. In 1984, he founded The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), a computer teleconference system for the San Francisco Bay Area. Brand has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an interdisciplinary center studying the sciences of complexity, since 1989. He received the Golden Gadfly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Media Alliance, San Francisco in the same year. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which supports civil rights and responsibilities in electronic media, and is an acting advisor to Ecotrust, Portland-based preservers of temperate rain forest from Alaska to San Francisco. Brand is the author of many pioneering books including The Clock Of The Long Now in 1999, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built in 1994, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT in 1987,. Currently he is working on a book titled Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. He graduated in Biology from Stanford and served as an Infantry officer. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Pierre Charlebois Pierre Charlebois is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) responsible for the operation of the nuclear, hydro, and fossil businesses. OPG is an Ontario-based electricity generation company whose principal business is the generation and sale of electricity in Ontario. OPG’s focus is on the efficient production and sale of electricity from its generating assets, while operating in a safe, open and environmentally responsible manner. From December 2003 to November 2006, Mr Charlebois served as Chief Nuclear Officer responsible for overseeing OPG’s nuclear generation business and its performance. From October 2002 to December 2003, Pierre Charlebois held the position of Nuclear Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nuclear Engineer responsible for design, modifications, training, radiation protection, security and other facility support services. He was also responsible for the oversight of the day to day operations at Pickering and Darlington. From September 1999 to October 2002, Pierre held the position of Senior Vice President, Technical Services and Chief Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Operations Support and Services. In this position he was responsible for managing the Engineering, Nuclear Analysis and Inspection Divisions. These divisions provide common standards, procedures, services and inspection programs to the two OPG nuclear generating plants. Pierre Charlebois was formerly Director, Station Engineering Support from 1998 to September 1999. He has extensive technical, operational and management experience in the operation of CANDU power plants. From 1996 to 1998, Pierre Charlebois formed a consulting company providing management and technical services. He conducted a study of the different approaches to plant life cycle management and assisted Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in developing a program for CANDU 6. Pierre Charlebois held a number of senior management positions at the Pickering Nuclear Division from 1989 to 1996, including Technical Manager, Production Manager and Plant Director. Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Pierre Charlebois graduated from Ottawa University in 1975 with a Bachelor Degree in Applied Science. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Murray Elston Murray J. Elston was appointed President of the Canadian Nuclear Association on January 5, 2004, having served as President of Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies since November 1, 1998. From January to October 1998, he was a member of the Energreen Solutions Group and, from 1994 to 1997, served as President of the Ontario Interlink Industrial Park. From 1981 to 1994, Mr. Elston was a member of the Ontario legislature, where he held a number of positions, including Minister of Health, Chairman of the Management Board, Minister of Financial Institutions and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. Mr. Elston is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and holds bachelor’s degrees in arts and in law. Prior to his election to the Ontario legislature, he practised law in Bruce County, Ontario. Mr. Elston is Chair of the Walkerton Clean Water Centre and Canadian Nurses Foundation. He is also Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research and Energy Dialogue Group. He serves on the boards of the Canadian Centre for Energy Information and Hydro One. The Canadian Nuclear Association is a non-profit organization established in 1960 to represent the nuclear industry in Canada and promote the development and growth of nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes. Nuclear energy generates over 15 per cent of Canada's electricity and 54 % of Ontario's electricity with virtually no air emissions. It employs over 20,000 people directly and another 10,000 indirectly in industry, government and other organizations involved in the nuclear field – including in uranium milling, mining and processing; developing and operating nuclear power plants and facilities; nuclear medicine; aerospace; automotive research; manufacturing; engineering; consulting; and education. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Laura Formusa Laura Formusa was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, Hydro One Inc., on November 23, 2007, having served as the company's President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro One Inc. (acting) since December 8, 2006. Ms. Formusa was appointed Hydro One's General Counsel and Secretary in 2003. She joined Ontario Hydro in 1980, following her call to the Bar of Ontario. Ms. Formusa has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2003 and previously held the position of Secretary to the Board of Directors. She held various senior positions until being appointed General Counsel of Hydro One Networks Inc. in 2000. Ms. Formusa earned her Bachelor of Laws degree at Osgoode Hall Law School and was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1980. Hydro One Inc. owns and operates the largest electricity transmission and distribution system in Ontario and directly serves more than 1.2 million customers.
	Dr. Marc Garneau Born in February 1949 in Quebec City, Canada, Dr. Marc Garneau received his early education in Quebec and in London, England. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering physics from the Royal Military College of Kingston, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England. After earning his PhD in London, Dr. Garneau returned to Canada where he served in the Canadian Navy for over two decades. Dr. Garneau retired from the Navy in 1989 with the rank of Captain. One of six Canadian astronauts selected in December 1983, and in February 1984 began astronaut training. He became the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space as a payload specialist on shuttle mission 41-G in October 1984. He was named deputy director of the Canadian Astronaut Program in 1989, providing technical and program support in the preparation of experiments to fly during future Canadian missions. In August 1992. he began a one-year training and evaluation program to be qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. A veteran of three space flights (STS-41G in 1984, STS-77 in 1996 and STS-97 in 2000), Dr. Garneau has logged more than 677 hours in space. In February 2001, Dr. Garneau was appointed executive vice president of the Canadian Space Agency and in November of that same year, became the Agency’s president. He resigned from the Canadian Space Agency in 2005 to pursue other interests including Canadian federal politics which he continues to be active in resulting. Dr. Garmeau’s interest resulted in his running for the Liberal party in 2006 and his new Liberal candidacy in Westmount-Ville-Marie in Montreal, come the next federal election. Dr. Garneau is an honorary fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, as well as a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia and the Navy League of Canada. He was named honorary member of the Canadian Society of Aviation Medicine in 1988 and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics in 2002. He is also the national honourary patron of Hope Air and Project North Star and the president of the Board of the McGill Chamber Orchestra. He was appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada in 1984, and named a companion of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2006, he was named to the Board of Directors for UTS Energy Corporation, a company focused on growing and developing oil sands assets. Also in 2006 Dr. Garneau accepted an invitation by the Minister of the Environment of Ontario to become a member of the Executive Committee on Transboundary Air Pollution and he became a public board member of the Board of Directors of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Tom Isaacs Director of Planning and Special Studies for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has more than 30 year experience managing programs and publishing papers on issues associated with nuclear power, waste management, and national security. He held a number of senior positions within the U.S. Atomic Energy Agency, the Department of Energy, and other federal agencies, including deputy director of the Office of Geologic Repositories. He is on the advisory committee for two U.S. nuclear engineering departments and works closely with the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization.
	The Honorable Jack Keir, Energy Minister of New Brunswick Minister Keir was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the provincial election held September 18, 2006. He is a Liberal MLA and represents the new riding of Fundy-River Valley. Between 1995 and 2002, Minister Keir was General Manager for the Saint John Harbour Bridge Authority where he managed all bridge operations. In 2002, Minister Keir headed up the Fundy Region Solid Waste Commission where he built a cohesive team that propelled the facililities operations into the 'black' while introducing a highly successful and growing recycling program. The recycling program alone helped divert over 30,000 tons of garbage from the area's landfill. Minister Keir was first elected to the Grand Bay council in 1995. He served a second term on the Town Council between 1998 and 2001 where he was the founding Chairperson of the Regional Facilities Commission. Minister Keir has also volunteered and supported many projects including ProKids, Milk for Moms, Moosehead Skate-to-Care and Enterprise Saint John. Minister Keir is married to Barbara Jeffrey, his high school sweetheart and partner of 23 years. Mrs. Keir works as a Director of Rehabilitation, Development and Evaluation at Workplace, Health, Safety and Compensation Commission. They currently reside in Grand Bay, Westfield.
	The Honourable Gary Lunn The Honourable Gary Lunn was appointed Minister of Natural Resources by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on February 6, 2006. Since 1997, he has been the Member of Parliament for the beautiful Saanich –Gulf Islands in British Columbia. The Natural Resources portfolio is well suited to Minister Lunn because his early working days were spent in the mining and forestry industries in British Columbia and northern Canada. This experience has allowed him to understand first-hand the importance of Canada’s natural resources to our present and future prosperity. Since becoming Minister of Natural Resources, Minister Lunn has championed the design of the ecoENERGY Initiatives that were unveiled in January 2007. This $2–billion investment is a set of focused, concrete measures to develop cleaner energy technologies, boost renewable energy supplies and help Canadians use energy more efficiently. Minister Lunn speaks frequently about the need to streamline the regulatory approval process for energy and mining projects in Canada, and has made this a personal priority as he enters the next phase of his mandate.
	Marwan Masri Marwan Masri was appointed President and C.E.O. of the Canadian Energy Research Institute in August 2007. Prior to his appointment, he was Vice President, Research having joined the Institute in November 2005. Masri’s experience includes a distinguished career with the California Energy Commission which spanned over 29 years of experience. As Director of their Renewable Energy Program, he led a special team of consultants that worked toward the design and implementation of a $1.9 billion program transitioning independently-owned renewable power projects into the competitive market. This Program, implemented in 1998, earned national and international recognition. Other previous positions include: Senior Economist, Energy Analyst, Energy Siting Planner, Solar Energy Specialist, Energy Economics/Statistics Specialist, Energy Fuels Specialist, Energy Commission Supervisor II and Deputy Director, Technology Systems Division (R&D.) He has collaborated with and advised commissioners and senior management on regulatory policies, as well as the design of policy tools used to respond to energy, economics and environmental issues. He produced the twenty-year forecast adopted for California, as the state's official forecast for 1990, 1992 and 1994. He also developed the methodology for long term projections for cost and value of power delivered by independent projects to California electric utilities. This methodology formed the basis for regulatory policy for power purchase agreements between electric utilities and their suppliers. He spearheaded the development of conceptual and quantitative methodology to estimate costs and benefits of air quality changes for use in energy resource selection and procurement, led the team for research on California global climate change, and developed methods to estimate costs and benefits of carbon dioxide emission reduction. He has also presented expert testimony regarding economics, energy and the environment. Concurrent to his career at the California Energy Commission, Marwan had 25 years of lecturing on the economics of energy and the environment at California universities. Mr. Masri has a B.A. in Economics from the American University in Cairo, Egypt where he graduated with honors. He has an MA from the University of California, Davis and has completed all the course requirements for his doctoral degree. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Ken Nash Ken Nash was appointed President of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) June 30, 2006. He is a founding director of the NWMO and the immediate past-chair of the organization’s Board of Directors. As a Board member Mr. Nash was responsible for providing the necessary oversight and resources to ensure a process of integrity in the NWMO study of nuclear waste management approaches. He has held a number of management positions at Ontario Hydro and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in the areas of finance, engineering, and environmental management. In his current capacity as Senior Vice President, Nuclear Waste Management Division at OPG, Mr. Nash is responsible for all aspects of nuclear waste management. This includes licensing, environmental approvals, operations, and OPG’s research and development program for the long-term management of used fuel currently established in several Canadian universities and in collaboration with international partners. He is also responsible for ensuring sufficient funds are set aside for the long-term management of OPG’s nuclear waste liabilities. Ken Nash is also responsible for lifecycle planning and development for long-term waste management including power plant decommissioning. Ken Nash was born in Accrington, England, and graduated from Salford University in 1974 with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Dr. Claudio Pescatore Dr. Claudio Pescatore is Principal Administrator for radioactive waste management at the NEA/OECD. Active at national (USA, Italy) and international level (OECD/NEA) in technical, strategy, and policy areas dealing with radioactive waste, he has over 20 years’ experience in the field, and a multifaceted career as programme manager, consultant to industry, consultant to R&D agencies and safety authorities, university lecturer, and researcher. His background is in the physical sciences, with a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering.
	Bob Reistein Bob Reinstein is President of Reinstein & Associates International, Inc., founded in 1996, it is a consulting firm, which specializes in energy, environment and international trade. Mr. Reinstein has had a varied series of careers during more than four decades of professional experience as a scientist, economist, negotiator and diplomat. Mr. Reinstein served as Executive Vice President of the Washington International Energy Group, a consulting firm, from 1993 until 1996. Prior to that Mr Reinstein served with the US Department of State as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Health and Natural Resources as the chief US negotiator for the UN convention on climate change and for the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. He was also chairman of Working Group III (on response strategies, 1991-92) and of Working Group II (on impacts, adaptation and mitigation, 1992-93) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). From 1982 to 1990 Mr. Reinstein was a trade negotiator at the White House Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), responsible for coordinating US trade policy for energy, chemicals, natural resources and environment. From 1975 to 1982 he was with the Federal Energy Administration and the Department of Energy, where he was chief economist of the Department’s Economic Regulatory Administration from 1978 to 1981. He was a teacher, writer and editor from 1961 to 1975, specializing in several sciences, economics and computer science, including serving as Senior Science Editor at Columbia University Press from 1972 to 1974. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Ken Seitz Mr Seitz is Vice-President of Corporate Development and Power Generation in Cameco Corporation. He started with Cameco in 1995 contributing as a design engineer on both the McArthur River and Cigar Lake Projects. In 1999, through an arrangement with Cameco, he also worked with a regional power producer on a climate change and emissions trading initiative in Ukraine. In 2000 Ken took a position in the oil and gas industry with PanCanadian Energy, working primarily in strategic planning and corporate development. In 2002 he participated in the largest Canadian industrial merger to date when PanCanadian Energy merged with another Canadian oil and gas company to form EnCana Corporation. Ken continued with EnCana in a corporate development role until 2004. Ken rejoined Cameco in 2004 as a member of the corporate development group working primarily on the nuclear fuel cycle. Ken Seitz is a Professional Engineer registered in Canada, and also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, a Master of Business Administration and a Certificate in Management, Stern School of Business.
	Kathryn Shaver Ms. Shaver joined the Nuclear Waste Management Organization in Canada upon its establishment in 2002. As Executive Director she co-ordinated the organization’s design and delivery of a three-year national dialogue and public engagement program that accompanied NWMO’s study of approaches for the long-term management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel. In her present capacity Ms. Shaver manages engagement, communications and social sciences research at NWMO. As Corporate Secretary she supports the Board of Directors and the administration of the independent Advisory Council to the NWMO. She has extensive prior energy and environment experience in both government and industry.
	Jeffrey Simpson Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail’s national affairs columnist, is the recipient of all three leading Canadian literary prizes – the Governor-General’s Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and two time winner of the National Newspaper Award for column writing. Jeffrey also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. In January 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. Born in New York, Jeffrey came to Canada and attended the University of Toronto Schools, Queen’s University and the London School of Economics. In 1972-73, he received a parliamentary internship scholarship in Ottawa. Jeffrey’s career with The Globe and Mail began at the Toronto City Hall in 1974. While at the Globe and Mail Jeffery has held the position as the Ottawa bureau chief as well as The Globe’s European correspondent based in London, England. He began writing his national affairs column in January 1984 and has since appeared on numerous French and English television and radio programs. Jeffrey Simpson has published six books – Discipline of Power (1980); Spoils of Power (1988); Fault-lines, Struggling for a Canadian Vision (1993); The Anxious Years (1996); Star-Spangled Canadians (2000) and The Friendly Dictatorship (2001). Jeffrey has written numerous magazine articles for such publications as Saturday Night, The Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies, and The Queen’s Quarterly. Jeffrey speaks at dozens of major conferences here and abroad on a variety of domestic and international issues and is a regular television contributor. Jeffrey includes Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, John Hopkins, Maine, California, plus more than a dozen universities in Canada on his list of guest lecturer spots. Jeffrey Simpson was a member of the board of trustees at Queen’s University; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta; the editorial board of The Queen’s Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto. He is vice-chairman of the City of Ottawa Library Board. Show/hide the rest of this biography
	Peter Wallace Peter Wallace was appointed Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy effective January 2007. Prior to his appointment, he served as Deputy Minister and Associate Secretary of the Cabinet, Policy, Cabinet Office and was instrumental in implementing the government’s policy and legislative agenda. He also served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resource Management with the Ministry of Natural Resources, from February 2001 to February 2004. Prior positions include Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Strategic Planning, Cabinet Office, Assistant Deputy Minister, Program Management and Estimates Division, Management Board Secretariat and Director, Expenditure Management and Reporting, Ministry of Finance. Peter began his public service career in 1981 after completing a BA (Honours) in Political Economy and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Toronto.
	John Wright John Wright is Senior Vice President of the Canadian Public Affairs component of Ipsos-Reid—Canada’s largest market research and public opinion firm. The company is part of Ipsos-- the third largest market and opinion research firm in the world with annual billings of $1.4 Billion. In addition to his client work involving public affairs research, John has been the lead media spokesperson for the company for since 1990 on politics, policy and consumer trends. He also hosts a weekly radio show for Canada’s largest News Talk station, Toronto’s CFRB, called Your Opinion Counts, and has been a regular Co-Host on BNN-TV’s Squeeze Play. He is also Co-Author of the best seller “What Canadians Think…About Almost Everything” (Random House, with 35,000 copies sold). A graduate of the University of Toronto, John was an Ontario Parliamentary Intern and an Executive Assistant to a provincial cabinet minister. His almost 25 years in public affairs have included positions as Senior Coordinator of Government Relations for Manufacturers Life, Vice President of Camp Associates Advertising, and Executive Vice President of Advance Planning and Communications Limited. He is currently a member of the advisory Board’s of the Dominion Institute of Canada, and Cancer Care Ontario and is Vice Chair of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). He also serves on the Boards of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, the Hincks Dellcrest Centre, and is a member of the Canadian Health Policy Implementation Initiative (CHPII). John is a recipient of the Arbor Award for outstanding volunteer service to the University of Toronto, a founding Director, Past President and “Life Member” of the Public Affairs Association of Canada, an author of the Carswell Public Affairs Handbook, and he shared in the International Association of Business Communicators’ Jake Wittmer Awards in 1995 with the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and in 1997 with the Royal Bank Financial Group for outstanding research for communications programs. John has served previously on the Board’s of Directors of Clarica Life Insurance Company of Canada from 1999 to 2002, Alegro Healthcare Inc. from 2001 to 2005, and the Alzheimer Society Canada from 2001 to 2006. John has also served previously on the Boards of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Diabetes Canada (Ontario Division), The Empire Club of Canada and the Association for the Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. Show/hide the rest of this biography