Marc H. Vatter
Ph.D., Brown University Economist Nashua, New Hampshire marcATappliedecon.net 503.227.199FOUR Marc’s work involves applied economic theory, market simulation, econometric analysis, and forecasting, and has focused on wholesale power and natural gas markets in New England, Mexico, the Upper Midwest, the Mid-South, the Pacific Northwest, and California, on unconventional fossil fuel plays such as the Bakken and Barnett Shales, and on global petroleum markets and the OPEC cartel. He has given testimony on issues related to wholesale power and natural gas markets before federal and state regulators and civil courts as an expert witness for attorneys at the Bonneville Power Administration, Mississippi Public Utilities Staff, Michigan Public Service Commission Staff, the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, and Moses, Palmer & Howell, and on lost personal earnings for Tichenor & Dziuba. Earlier in his career, he did extensive work in litigation support for other experts. He has published and presented peer-reviewed research at conferences, and taught energy economics to graduate students in business at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. He now teaches economic analysis to graduate students in business at Rivier University in Nashua. Click photo for resume. |
Samuel A. Van Vactor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge President, Economic Insight, Inc. Portland, Oregon sam.vanvactorATcantab.net 503.222.242FIVE +44.7495.950.41ZERO Sam has led Economic Insight, a firm of consulting economists specializing in energy and natural resource issues, for over three decades. He has advised many public and private organizations on economic and energy matters, including the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Bonneville Power Administration, the California Power Exchange,
Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation, Sempra, the Western Interstate Energy Board, Sasol, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo Gas, Gaz de France, Gas Natural, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, BP, the State of Alaska, and the Government of India. He has appeared as an expert witness in international arbitration, tax hearings, civil disputes, antitrust cases, and regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and a variety of State Public Utility Commissions. Sam was an officer on destroyers in the U.S. Navy, an economist at the U.S. Treasury, and a senior economist at the International Energy Agency of the OECD. He also taught energy economics and/or lectured on energy and economics subjects at the University of Tulsa, University of Oregon, Portland State University, University of Maryland (European Division), Cambridge University, and Columbia University. Click photo for resume. |
R. Kent Koeninger
B.S., California State University Big Data-AI Specialist Greenfield, Massachusetts koeningerATappliedecon.net 603-589-084SIX Kent is a thought-leader in artificial intelligence, machine, and deep learning. His career includes years at IBM, HP, Myricom, Cray Research/SGI, Apple, NASA, and as a professor at California State University. He began this journey with the Homebrew Computer Club in Silicon Valley, where he designed, built, and programmed a microcomputer from scratch, and it culminated as founder and CEO of Veritomyx, where he improved protein identification, employing advanced spectral analysis and genetic algorithms
to improve mass-spectrometer resolution. Kent is an active member of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, and has turned his intellect to climate change as a scientific and moral issue, on which he collaborates with other members of The Economic Utility Group. Click photo for resume. |