Date: 1/12/2012

Location: Washington, DC

11:45 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
How can energy and water challenges be addressed in light of new economic realities? On what institutions should we rely to make the essential trade-offs? Is new technology the answer, and, if so, what technology, and how should it be fostered?

Jim Nussle, president and COO of Growth Energy, former director of Office of Management and Budget, and former chairman of the House Budget Committee, will give a keynote luncheon address. This will be followed by two panel discussions.

The first panel will give brief overviews of the main challenges posed by the energy water nexus. It will feature presentations by Craig Zamuda, senior policy advisor of U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Climate Change Policy and Technology; John Lyman, director of the Atlantic Council's Energy and Environment Program; and W. David Montgomery, senior vice president of NERA Economic Consulting. Hudson visiting fellow Lee Lane will moderate the panel.

A second panel will critically assess current proposed solutions. It will feature Gary Libecap, the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jes Munk Hansen, president of Grundfos North America; Sheila Olmstead, tenured fellow, Resources for the Future; and Kassia Yanosek, founding principal, Tana Energy Capital LLC. Hudson president and CEO Kenneth Weinstein will moderate the panel.

Complimentary lunch will be provided. Register.

This event will be streamed live on Hudson's website. Questions can be submitted via Twitter: @HudsonInstitute.

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