Speakers - 2023 EEMDL Event

  • Brad Crabtree

    Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

    U.S. Department of Energy

  • Stefanie Rucker

    Manager, Office of Innovations in Planning and Air Quality Assessment

    Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

  • Edward Lush

    Director Business Development, New Energy Ventures

    Williams

  • Tracey Cameron

    Director, Corporate Climate Engagement – Oil & Gas

    Ceres

Mr. Brad Crabtree is the Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), where he leads and directs FECM’s research and development programs. Mr. Crabtree brings nearly three decades of experience in energy and climate policy to his role as Assistant Secretary. Prior to joining DOE, he served as Vice President for Carbon Management at the Great Plains Institute (GPI), where he cofounded and directed the Carbon Capture Coalition, which works to advance carbon management technologies to meet climate goals, create high-wage jobs, and support domestic energy and industrial production. At GPI, Mr. Crabtree also helped launch the bipartisan State Carbon Capture Work Group to foster deployment of carbon capture and carbon dioxide transport infrastructure, and he led GPI’s efforts to establish the Industrial Innovation Initiative aimed at decarbonizing key industries. Additionally, he co-directed Powering the Plains, a project that crafted a comprehensive 50-year regional blueprint for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and carbon capture. Mr. Crabtree previously coordinated energy policy advisory groups for the Midwestern Governors Association and facilitated the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Advisory Group for six governors and the premier of Manitoba. He has also led multiple overseas delegations of U.S. policymakers and private sector leaders to examine other countries’ policies and experience in carbon management and renewable energy technology. A North Dakota native, Mr. Crabtree is a graduate of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and has an MA in history from Johns Hopkins University.

As the manager of the Office of Innovations in Planning and Air Quality Data with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division, Stefanie Rucker searches for creative opportunities to reduce air pollutant emissions in ways that are efficient, data-driven, and most importantly effective. She has a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering and has been with the Division since January 2008, spending the majority of that time working on oil and gas related air quality issues, permitting, and regulation. She loves talking to stakeholders and industry members about how, together, we can meet all of our air quality goals. Her biggest achievements are when she can get disparate groups to collaborate and even find consensus on the many difficult problems we face. Stefanie has represented the Division in the development of: 1) Colorado’s Storage Tank and Vapor Control System Guidelines, 2) the first ever O&G methane control requirements adopted in February 2014, 3) the upstream intensity and midstream steering committee rules adopted in December 2021, and 4) the intensity verification rule adopted in July 2023. She has been recognized for her work with a Clean Air Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a Frank Johnson Environmental Excellence Award from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Edward Lush is a Director of Business Development in the New Energy Ventures group at Williams. Edward joined Williams in September 2022 and is focused on the development and commercialization of low carbon products, specifically differentiated gas and renewable natural gas. Prior to Williams, Edward worked as the Head of Midstream at Project Canary for close to a year, where he led midstream strategy and business development initiatives. Before Project Canary, Edward spent 8 years in the midstream sector with MarkWest Energy Partners and then MPLX (a subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum Corporation) following MPLX’s acquisition of MarkWest. During his time at MPLX, Edward held various commercial roles, including leading business development efforts for all of MPLX’s gathering, processing, and fractionation assets in the Marcellus and Utica shales. Edward began his career as a corporate and transactional lawyer, working both in private practice and in-house. Edward holds a JD from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and an MA in Geography and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Tracey leads climate engagement work with the oil and gas industry at Ceres, a sustainability non-profit that supports investors who are evaluating risks posed by pressing sustainability issues. Tracey believes that meaningful climate engagement is founded in open dialogue that balances industry challenges with investor interests in managing portfolio climate risk. Focus areas have included incorporation of climate considerations in O&G financial reporting; midstream industry engagement and the role in the energy transition; the E&P net zero path; a Permian Basin collaborative effort with operators to identify actions to reduce emissions broadly across the basin. Prior to Ceres Tracey was a governance and ESG analyst at Fidelity where she played an integral in launching the ESG Office.

  • Tom Curry

    Director of Policy and Analysis, Office of Resource Sustainability

    United States Department of Energy

  • Dr. Morgan Bazilian

    Director, The Payne Institute for Public Policy

    Professor of Public Policy, Division of Business & Economics

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Dr. Paul Balcombe

    Sr. Lecturer in Chemical Engineering & Renewable Energy

    Queen Mary’s University

  • Dr. Thomas Fox

    President

    Highwood Emissions Management

Dr. Morgan Bazilian is the Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he was Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. Dr. Bazilian holds a Ph.D in energy systems, and was a Fulbright fellow. His work has been published in Science, Nature, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Previously he was a senior diplomat at the United Nations. He was the EU’s lead negotiator on technology at the UN climate negotiations. He is also Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, and a member of Ireland’s Climate Change Council.

Dr. Paul Balcombe is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering and Renewable Energy at Queen Mary University of London, and his research focuses on better understanding and reducing methane emissions, and decarbonising gaseous energy supply chains. Paul uses a combination of direct site measurements and energy/emissions systems modelling to help industry to create a better understanding of emissions and to develop cost-effective emission mitigation strategies. Paul works with various companies to conduct site emissions measurements and is a Chartered chemical engineer (CEng) based on his industrial experience. After graduating in chemical engineering from the University of Manchester, he spend 6 years working in industry as a chemical process engineer design chemical plants for several industrial sectors including nuclear waste treatment, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals and biofuels.

Dr. Thomas Fox is Chief Innovation Officer at Highwood Emissions Management. His expertise is in methane detection and quantification technology, voluntary initiatives, measurement-informed inventories, and forecasting emissions management strategies through simulation. At Highwood, Thomas leads product, technology, and R&D groups, delivering novel emissions management software and projects to industry, regulators, and innovators. He holds a PhD from University of Calgary and an MSc from McGill University.

Tom Curry leads the Division of Policy & Analysis in the Office of Resource Sustainability, a part of DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. The Division of Policy & Analysis develops technical, economic, and policy analyses to support the office’s research and development, engagement, and natural gas regulatory work. The Division’s analyses focus on methane emissions, critical minerals, hydrogen technologies, and other crosscutting efforts to support DOE’s mission. Tom has more than 20 years of experience providing business, governmental, and non-profit clients with strategic assistance on energy and environmental policy issues. He has managed the development of methane emissions intensity protocols for companies that operate in the natural gas supply chain and has extensive experience working with companies, investors, and trade associations on greenhouse gas emission inventories. Tom has worked to help companies and environmental groups identify policy drivers for advanced technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon capture, utilization and storage; hydrogen; and advanced methane detection. Before joining DOE, Tom was a Partner at ERM and was previously a Vice President at M.J. Bradley & Associates. Tom holds a Master of Science degree from the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a double major in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Chad Zamarin

    EVP, Corporate Strategic Development

    Williams

  • Corey Grindal

    EVP & Chief Operating Officer

    Cheniere Energy

  • Dr. Daniel Cusworth

    Project Scientist

    Carbon Mapper

  • Matthew Balhoff

    Chair, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

    The University of Texas at Austin n goes here

Chad Zamarin became Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development for Williams in January 2023. He joined the company as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development in 2017. He oversees enterprise-level strategy, business development and customer-relationship management and is responsible for commodity marketing, upstream joint ventures and new energy ventures, which includes hydrogen blending, carbon capture and storage and next generation natural gas, as well as communications and corporate social responsibility. Prior to joining Williams, Zamarin served as Senior Vice President and President, Pipeline and Midstream at Cheniere Energy, Inc. Before joining Cheniere Energy, Zamarin served in various executive roles at NiSource/Columbia Pipeline Group, including Chief Operating Officer at NiSource Midstream, LLC and NiSource Energy Ventures, LLC, as well as President of Pennant Midstream, LLC.

Mr. Grindal has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2023. Mr. Grindal previously served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Trading from September 2020 to January 2023. Mr. Grindal has also served as a director and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cheniere Partners GP since September 2022 and January 2023, respectively. Mr. Grindal previously served as Senior Vice President, Gas Supply from September 2016 to September 2020, after joining Cheniere in June of 2013 as Vice President of Supply. Mr. Grindal was brought in to develop the required infrastructure needed for firm and reliable deliveries to Cheniere’s LNG terminals, establish the required relationships with the United States’ producer community, and set up the needed systems, processes, and personnel for Cheniere to be the premier United States LNG exporter. Mr. Grindal has over 30 years of experience in pipeline construction and operations, project management, and natural gas and power trading. Prior to joining Cheniere, Mr. Grindal was with Deutsche Bank and was responsible for physical and financial trading. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Grindal held positions with Louis Dreyfus and the Tenneco/El Paso companies. Mr. Grindal holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dan Cusworth is Project Scientist for Carbon Mapper. He formerly worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a data scientist working on understanding sources of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions from regional to facility scales. His main research interest is to design multi-tiered observing and analysis frameworks where multiple atmospheric carbon observations are jointly assimilated to provide actionable data for greenhouse gas emission mitigation. He received his B.S. in Applied Math/Atmospheric Sciences at UCLA and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University.

  • Dr. David Lyon

    Special Advisor for Implementation

    U.S. EPA

  • Matthew McMullin

    EVP, Global Climate Practice Leader & Energy Industry Practice Leader

    Chubb

  • Dr. Erin Tullos

    Senior Research Fellow, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering

    UT Austin

  • Damon Burtt

    Climate Change Consultant

    Carbon Limits

David Lyon is a Special Advisor for Implementation at U.S. EPA working on the Inflation Reduction Act Methane Emissions Reduction Program. Prior to EPA, David was a Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund working on the quantification and mitigation of oil and gas methane emissions. David earned a PhD in Environmental Dynamics from the University of Arkansas researching methane super-emitters.

Matthew McMullin, Global Climate Business Leader and North America Energy Leader, joined the company in 2008 as a Senior Financial Analyst, after which he held several underwriting and leadership roles with Global Casualty. In June 2021 he joined the Commercial Insurance Energy Industry Practice where he led the division’s underwriting portfolio strategy. He has since been named Leader of the overall North America Insurance Energy practice, where he will continue in that role. Under Mr. McMullin’s leadership, Chubb has taken on an industry-leading position in the energy space as it continues to evolve and expand into the energy transition. Mr. McMullin is an active member of Chubb’s Environmental and Casualty Product Boards, monitoring emerging environmental and casualty trends, driving underwriting strategy to address challenges and opportunities.

Erin Tullos is a Senior Research Fellow in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where she leads research on methane emissions within the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL) and the Center for Energy Environmental Resources (CEER). She holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Texas A&M University (Whoop!) and a Bachelors in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics from the same. Over the last two decades, much of which was spent gaining industry experience, she has focused on finding emissions measurement and mitigation solutions for key pollutants from the oil and gas industry, including methane and ozone precursors, that recognize operating realities.

Damon Burtt is a consultant at Carbon Limits, a multi-disciplinary consulting company investigating complex issues related to the scale and characteristics of emissions and energy sector operations and providing a basis for analyses and advice on climate change mitigation measures and strategies. Damons’s work revolves around methane emissions and decarbonization of the oil and gas sector, providing technical analyses and capacity building on complex issues for a variety of stakeholders. He holds an MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Carleton University, where he researched the efficiency and emission rates of flares subject to a turbulent crosswind. Damon was a coauthor in the development of the OGCI, IOGP and Ipieca Recommended Practices for methane emissions detection and quantification technologies. The Recommended Practice provides the user with a framework on how to implement combinations of measurement, detection, and quantification technologies at onshore and offshore assets to facilitate improved methane management and emissions reporting, accompanied by an online technology filtering tool, detailed technology data sheets, and decision trees to guide technology deployment.

  • Andy Grimes

    Managing Director, Research Development & Relations

    EEMDL, UT Austin

  • Arvind Ravikumar

    Co-Director, Department of Petroleum Engineering

    EEMDL, UT Austin

  • Ben Cahill

    Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program

    Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

  • Carrie Jenks

    Executive Director, Environmental & Energy Law Program

    Harvard University

As Managing Director of Research Development for the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL), Andy supports EEMDL’s mission and integration with other synergistic research initiatives from an overall program management and research growth perspective. Before EEMDL, Andy served as an Associate Director, for Energy and Materials Research Initiatives for the UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering. Prior to that he has over two decades of energy industry experience. He was a Partner in Wipro’s Oil & Gas Consultancy until 2020 after serving as an Assistant Vice President for Science Applications International Corporation’s O&G Consultancy. In those roles, Andy was responsible for account management, and program and large capital project leadership and management, for large supermajor clients. Andy’s main focus is designing and delivering improvements to O&G production operations involving new IT and OT applications, R&D tested prototypes, data analytics, engineered instrumentation solutions, and business workflow changes for upstream and downstream businesses. He started his career with Accenture after graduating from UT Austin where he worked in a combustion research lab and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in Accounting.

Arvind Ravikumar, Co-Director, Department of Petroleum Engineering, EEMDL, UT Austin

Ben Cahill is a senior fellow in the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He covers oil markets, geopolitics, and macro trends affecting the oil and gas industry. He leads several research initiatives on methane emissions and global gas, focusing on U.S. and EU policy, on the global LNG market, and on national oil companies and climate and methane commitments. Ben was previously a director in Energy Intelligence's Research & Advisory group, and worked at PFC Energy (now part of S&P Global) in Washington, D.C., and Kuala Lumpur.

As Executive Director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program, Carrie leads the EELP team to identify legally durable strategies to support climate and environmental policies and advance clean energy deployment. With her legal and policy expertise in climate and environmental law, she has worked to build strategic alliances among stakeholders to advance policy solutions. Prior to the Environmental & Energy Law Program, Carrie was an Executive Vice President at M.J. Bradley & Associates where she directed power company coalitions that have played a critical role supporting, and defending in court, air pollution and climate regulations. Before that, Carrie was an Associate at Goodwin Procter and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and B.A. from Harvard University.

  • Daniel Zimmerle

    Director, Methane Emissions Program

    Colorado State University

  • Dr. David Allen

    Co-Director, Department of Chemical Engineering

    EEMDL, UT Austin

  • Dr. Dorit Hammerling

    Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistic

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Fiji George

    Senior Director, Climate & Sustainability

    Cheniere Energy

Daniel Zimmerle, Director, Methane Emissions Program, Colorado State University

Dr. David Allen is the Norbert Dittrich-Welch Chair Professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and Co-Director of the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL), where he leads a team of over forty researchers and staff. He also is the Director of UT Austin’s Center for Energy Environmental Resources (CEER). Dr. David Allen is the author of seven books and over 300 papers, primarily in the areas of urban air quality, the engineering of sustainable systems, and the development of materials for environmental and engineering education. Dr. Allen has been a lead investigator for multiple air quality measurement studies, including studies that made some of the first measurements of methane emissions from unconventional oil and gas production. He has served on a variety of governmental advisory panels and from 2012 to 2015 chaired the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. In 2017, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and in 2020 he received the ENI Energy Transitions Award, which has been referred to as the Nobel Prize in energy. His teaching has been recognized through multiple University and national teaching awards.

Dr. Dorit Hammerling Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistic, Colorado School of Mines

Fiji George is the Senior Director for Climate & Sustainability at Cheniere Energy Inc. and has more than 29 years of management and technical experience covering corporate climate and sustainability strategy, fundamental science, regulatory and policy experience along natural gas value chain- exploration/production, gas processing, transmission & storage, and liquified natural gas (LNG). His expertise focuses on researching and implementing sustainable solutions for prudent development and use of natural gas and LNG in a low-carbon economy, and integrating corporate environmental, social & governance (ESG) programs to support the energy transition. Mr. George served on the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) committee on the development of a framework for evaluating global greenhouse gas emissions information for decision making and was a member of the NASEM committee that published a detailed study on methane emissions. He is a co-author on multiple peer-reviewed scientific papers, design of novel research collaborations such as Energy Emissions & Modeling Data Lab (EEMDL), and the architect of the ONE Future Coalition voluntary methane program design. He serves as an External Advisory Board Member to Rice University’s Professional Science Master’s program, and as a member of the University of Texas at Austin’s Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering External Advisory Committee. Prior to Cheniere, held technical and management corporate positions at various oil and gas firms. He holds a master’s in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from Texas A&M University and a bachelor’s in Mining Engineering from Anna University, India.

  • Keith Shoemaker

    SVP, Commercial

    EQT Corp.

  • Dr. Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz

    Associate Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering & Center for Energy and Environmental Resources

    UT Austin

  • Dr. Lyra Wang

    Research Scientist

    EEMDL, UT Austin

  • Matthew Johnson

    Professor & Head of Energy Emissions Research Lab

    Carleton University

Keith Shoemaker has served as SVP of Commercial since March of 2020. At EQT, Keith leads all Commercial activities including Strategy, Physical and Financial Trading and Fundamental Analysis. Prior to EQT, Keith led Rice Energy’s Marketing effort. Keith has managed trading teams at Louis Dreyfus, Phibro and Sempra Energy Trading and commodity desks at JP Morgan, BNP Paribas and Citizens Bank. Mr. Shoemaker holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from the University of Houston. Mr. Shoemaker serves on the board of Laurel Mountain Midstream and represents EQT at the AGA and LNG Allies.

Dr. Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz is Associate Professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and at the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hildebrandt Ruiz holds a B.S. with Honors in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Environmental Track) and a Ph.D. in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at that National Center for Atmospheric Research. Her research focuses on air quality engineering and the effects of physical and chemical processing of pollutants on human exposure in indoor and outdoor environments. Current specific research interests include air quality impacts of unconventional oil and gas development, indoor air quality impacts of disinfection, and tropospheric chlorine chemistry. The quality of Dr. Hildebrandt Ruiz’s work has been recognized through various awards including an NSF CAREER award, the James J. Morgan Early Career Award from the ACS Environmental Division, and the Early Career Award from the AIChE Environmental Division.

Lyra Wang is a research scientist at the Energy Emission Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL). In this role, she leads large-scale field campaigns to measure methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. In addition, she leads the model development and data analysis effort to address questions related to spatial and temporal variations in methane emissions. Dr. Wang holds a doctorate degree in data science and bachelor’s degrees in Finance and Accounting.

Prof. Matthew Johnson is a professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada where his heads the Energy & Emissions Research Laboratory (EERL) focussed on quantifying and mitigating pollutant emissions in the upstream energy sector. A two-time winner of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) prestigious accelerator award, Matt has worked extensively to translate peer-reviewed results into practice. His research contributions include comprehensive protocols for measurement-based inventories, large-scale aerial methane surveys, novel “VentX” technology for quantifying unsteady methane flows, “sky-LOSA” technology for measuring black carbon emissions from flares, techno-economic analysis of methane mitigation potential, and quantitative analysis of regulatory equivalency. His work is cited in Canada’s National Inventory Report, incorporated in provincial and federal standards and regulations, and regularly cited in international methane and black carbon mitigation efforts.

  • Andy Uhler

    Journalism Fellow

    UT’s Energy Institute & Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy

  • Colette Schissel

    PhD Candidate

    UT Austin

  • James Diamond

    Manager, Technical Operations & Upstream Regulatory Team

    Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

  • Andreea Calcan

    Andreea Calcan

    Programme Management Officer

    UNEP

Andy Uhler is an award-winning public radio correspondent and host. He’s currently a journalism fellow through a partnership between UT’s Energy Institute and Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. He started his journalism career as an undergraduate at KUT, the University of Texas at Austin NPR affiliate. He transitioned to music journalism in 2006, becoming the senior producer of Texas Music Matters. After completing a Master’s degree in global policy studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in 2014, he returned to KUT to help launch the Texas Standard. The following year, he took a job as a sustainability reporter at American Public Media’s Marketplace where he remained until accepting this fellowship

Colette Schissel, PhD Candidate, UT Austin

James Diamond is the Manager of the Technical Operations team in the Oil and Gas Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), leading the group responsible for the development of federal regulations to manage methane emissions from the oil and gas sectors. With a chemical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, he began his career as a process engineer in the petrochemical industry in Alberta. James then travelled to London’s Imperial College for an MBA, returning to a consulting position in Calgary focused on Canada’s Energy Sector. James joined ECCC in 2004 to work on climate and air quality policy. He is currently the chair of the Oil & Gas subcommittee of the Global Methane Initiative.

Andreea Calcan leads the coordination of methane science studies for UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory. She has over a decade of experience directing scientific campaigns, with a focus on airborne research activities. In addition to her current work on methane, Andreea has managed international research projects focused on cloud physics, satellite calibration and validation campaigns for organizations including the European Space Agency and the Romanian Space Agency. Prior to joining UNEP as a Programme Management Officer, Andreea led coordination of the largest methane science study to date in Europe, which included 13 research teams from 20 countries surveying emissions from Europe’s second largest oil and gas producing country. Andreea holds a PhD in Physics and a MSc in Optics, Spectroscopy and Lasers from the University of Bucharest, Romania.

  • Nile Garritson

    Associate Portfolio Manager

    CalSTRS

  • Alex Bosiljevac

    Engineering Specialist, Environmental

    EQT Corporation

  • Roger T. Bonnecaze

    Dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering 

    The University of Texas at Austin

Nile is focused on driving progress against CalSTRS’s Net Zero 2050 pledge through engagement and proxy voting. Prior to CalSTRS he spent eight years on the buy side covering oil & gas, and four years at a publicly traded electric utility doing corporate finance and risk management. He has a bachelors and MBA from USC in Los Angeles, and is a CFA charterholder.

Alex Bosiljevac is Engineering Specialist, Environmental, for EQT Corporation. He has been with EQT for over nine years in various roles including a EQT representative on the ONE Future Coalition, a group of more than 50 natural gas companies working together to voluntarily reduce methane emissions across the natural gas value chain. He served on the Steering Committee since 2018 and on the and Board Since 2021. Since 2000, Alex has also been spearheading EQT’s aerial methane monitoring program, OGMP 2.0 program, EO/MiQ differentiated gas certification and GTI Veritas program. Additionally, Alex is on the steering committee for EEMDL and has led the formation of the Appalachian Methane Initiative. AMI aims to be a world class, sector- and technology-agnostic methane monitoring network designed to assess and further mitigate methane emissions across the entire Appalachian Basin.