Symposium

Moderator

Kate Offringa
Vice President, Public Affairs
North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA)

Rapporteurs

Jared Blum
President
Polyisocyanurate Insulation Manufacturers Association (PIMA)

Jared Blum is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of PIMA, the Washington based national trade association representing the manufacturers of polyisocyanurate foam insulation, the most energy efficient insulation in the marketplace today.  Jared holds a law degree from the National Law Center at George Washington University and an undergraduate degree from Boston University.

Peter Love 
Chief Energy Conservation Officer
Ontario Power Authority

Peter Love was appointed Ontario’s first Chief Energy Conservation Officer in April 2005 to head the Conservation Bureau, a division of the Ontario Power Authority.  The mandate of the Conservation Bureau is to provide leadership in electricity conservation and demand management and advance a conservation culture in Ontario.

Mr. Love has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the area of energy efficiency.  As the Executive Director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, he was a leading advocate for energy efficiency and its related benefits to the economy and the environment. Early in his career Mr. Love worked as a project coordinator for Pollution Probe with the team that developed the concept “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, and co-founded a coalition to advocate responsible waste management policies and programs.

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James “Jim” McMahon
Head, Energy Analysis Department
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. James E. ("Jim") McMahon is Head of the Energy Analysis Department, Leader of the Energy Efficiency Standards (EES) Group, and Co-chair of the Water Energy Technology Team (WETT) in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at LBNL. He currently leads the economic and technical analysis of U.S. appliance, equipment, and lighting standards, under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. McMahon received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Providence College and a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biophysics from Florida State University.

Randall Bowie
Chief Consultant, Standards/Codes/Regulations, Group Corporate Affairs
Rockwool International

Randall Bowie grew up in the U.S. and in Europe but has European roots. After completing his studies of Chemistry and Economics at the University of Illinois, he moved to Sweden to continue graduate school at the University of Stockholm. He worked for many years for the Swedish ministries of finance, industry, and energy, and the Swedish Energy Agency before joining DG Energy & Transport of the European Commission (then called DG 17) in 1996. He was one of the driving forces at the Commission behind the Buildings Directive, the Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive, and the Energy Efficiency Action Plans. In 2007 he left the Commission for a chief consultancy position at Rockwool International A/S, stationed currently in Denmark and in Brussels.

Benoit Lebot
Climate Change Technical Advisor
United Nations Development Program - Environment Finance Group