Janet Gellici (gel-lee-cee), CAE, is Chief Executive Officer of the National Coal Council (NCC).  The NCC is an Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, providing advice and recommendations to the Secretary on general policy matters relating to coal and the coal industry.

Prior to joining the NCC in May 2013, Gellici served as Chief Executive Officer of the American Coal Council (ACC).  Gellici served as Communications Director of the Colorado School of Mines’ Management Institute and as Public Information Director of the Western Governors’ Association. ...Read more

Dr. Carpenter is a seasoned executive with 30 years of experience in the international energy and mining industry. He is an internationally recognized Subject Matter Expert on Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), climate change, carbon, and risk management issues. Dr. Carpenter’s clientele include numerous confidential commercial clients, DOE, DOD, USAID, USTDA, Canadian Standards Association, International Standards Organization (ISO), the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), the Energy Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF), the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB), World Bank/...Read more

Jeff Erikson joined the Institute in January 2016 as General Manager —The Americas, before moving to the role of General Manager – Client Engagement in 2017. In his current role, Jeff is responsible for ensuring the Institute’s Members derive high value from their membership, as well as expanding the membership base and identifying fee-for-service opportunities.

Prior to joining the Institute, Jeff was Director of Global Projects at the Carbon War Room, an international non-governmental organization and think tank working on issues regarding market-based solutions to climate change...Read more

Jon Gibbins has worked on coal and biomass gasification and combustion for over 30 years, at Foster Wheeler, Imperial College, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sheffield and on carbon capture and storage (CCS) since 2002. He is currently Professor of Power Plant Engineering and Carbon Capture at the University of Sheffield and Director of the UK CCS Research Centre (www.ukccsrc.ac.uk), which is supported by Research Councils UK to lead and coordinate a programme of underpinning research on all aspects of CCS in support...Read more

Nigel has over 23 years of global oil and gas industry experience in technology, exploration, development and production operations with major oil and gas operating companies. He is an industry leader and expert in Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) having previously held roles such as the chair of the CO2 Capture Project, chair of the North American CCS Association, and program chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers CCUS Technical Section. Nigel now serves as Coordinating Subcommittee deputy chair for the National Petroleum Council CCUS study due to be completed in September 2019...Read more

Dr.Xu graduated from thermal power engineering of the Xi'an Jiaotong University of P. R. China in 1987. He is the president of China Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute (CERI), the director of National Key Lab. for Clean Coal Energy of P.R.China, the China’s side co-director of Advanced Clean Coal Technology Consortium of CERC sponsored by MOST of China and DOE of USA. Prior to joining CERI, he was the CTO of Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI) of China, the R&D Center of China Huaneng Group. Dr. Xu has 30 years of experiences on coal gasification, IGCC and CCUS. He was the...Read more

Dr. Singh is currently the Director of Engineering at NICE America Research which is a subsidiary of NICE (National Institute of Clean and Low Carbon Energy) and R&D division of China Energy Group (CE) formerly Shenhua Group. China Energy is the largest in coal mining, power generation, coal to chemicals and renewable power generation in the world. CE has over 190 GW of fossil fuel power generation and 30 GW wind power generation assets. Dr. Singh, in his current role, is responsible for developing an R&D portfolio to enable CE to develop a pathway for affordable reduction in CO2...Read more