Panel discussion: the changing domestic energy outlook—a post-emissions trading context

Michael Pascoe is one of Australia’s most respected and experienced finance and economics commentators with more than three decades in newspaper, radio, television and online journalism. Perhaps best known for this 18 years as the Nine Network’s Finance Editor, Michael now is Associate Editor of Alan Kohler’s EurekaReport.com.au, contributes to Crikey.com.au and Channel 7’s news programs and is a regular conference speaker, MC and facilitator. Michael was born and educated in Queensland and started his career with The Courier-Mail before working in Hong Kong for three years. He joined the Australian Financial Review in Sydney upon returning to Australia and then virtually invented specialist finance journalism in commercial broadcasting—first with the Macquarie Radio network, then with Channel 9, Sky Business Report and Channel 7.

Andy Lloyd is currently Mining Executive within Rio Tinto’s Energy division located in Melbourne. Andy oversees initiatives dealing with long term issues affecting Rio Tinto’s Energy interests, including sustainable development and climate change, and assists with the management of Rio Tinto’s global interests in coal and uranium. He is currently leader of the team working on the possible development of the Kintyre resource in Western Australia, and has co-ordinated Rio Tinto’s activities in uranium business development. Andy first joined Rio Tinto in 1985 and has held a number of commercial positions within the Rio Tinto Group, including positions at Bougainville Copper, Comalco, and CRA’s head office. He also spent four years with Nabalco at the Gove mine and alumina refinery, having rejoined CRA in 1995. Andy holds an Honours degree in Natural Resources and an MBA. He was a founding director of Globalcoal Ltd, an on-line coal exchange established with wide coal industry participation. He was the Co-chair of the IEA Zero Emissions technology Conference held on the Gold Coast in February 2004 and was a member of the organising committee for the World Energy Congress in Sydney in September 2004. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Anna Matysek is Associate Principal in CRA’s Regulatory Economics and Public Policy team. She has ten years experience working in the fields of environmental and resource economics and in general equilibrium modelling and sectoral analysis. Anna has previously undertaken periods of research at the Australian Productivity Commission, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Production Forestry and the University of Tasmania. Anna specialises in energy and greenhouse issues, having previously been Manager of Climate Change and Model Development at ABARE. She has particular expertise in climate policy analysis, scenario design, energy technology pathways and quantifying the economic impacts of alternative energy and climate policies. Anna was an author in the areas of long term and industry mitigation on the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, and contributed key economic advice to the inaugural Ministerial meeting of the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6). She was also a lead author in the area of scenario design for the East and South Asia region for the Intergovernmental Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). Anna holds a first class Honours degree in analytical economics from the University of Tasmania and a multi-disciplinary Masters degree in environmental management from the University of Melbourne.

Ben McNeil is an Australian academic who is an expert in a range of areas relating to climate change science, policy and energy. Completing his PhD in 2001 he worked as a research fellow at Princeton University, USA and returned to Australia in 2004, where he is now a senior research fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. In 2007, he was chosen as an expert reviewer for the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment report and was invited to present his research to the Prime Minister and cabinet at Parliament House in Canberra. He was also recently elected to represent young scientists in the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies.

Tony Owen is Professor of Energy Economics in the Curtin Business School at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. He has a PhD in Econometrics from the University of Kent (UK) and has held visiting appointments at the Universities of British Columbia, Colorado, Leeds and Exeter, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris), the UK Department of Energy (Harwell), and the International Energy Agency (Paris). Energy related consulting activities have been undertaken in Australia, China, Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, the Philippines and the UK. Tony is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and Past President (2004) of the International Association for Energy Economics. He is also founding member and President of the Australian Association for Energy Economics. He is joint editor (with N Hanley) of The Economics of Climate Change (Routledge, 2004) and is Theme Editor for Energy Policy.

No biography provided for Paul Zealand.