James
B. Sullivan, PhD
Dr. Sullivan is a founding member of the Energy Markets Group,
Washington D.C.
In the last several years, Dr. Sullivan’s consulting practice
has focused on energy sector restructuring and reform in developing
countries for a number of international firms and development
agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID), the U.S. Department of Energy, the World Bank, the
U.S. Energy Association and others. He has served as an Associate
Assistant Administrator to USAID (1998 – 2000), the senior
U.S. Government career official responsible for environmental
and energy issues in developing and transition countries. As
such he helped develop strategy and design foreign policy for
U.S. assistance programs abroad. He was also was the senior
energy advisor to USAID as well as direct supervisor for the
Agency’s global programs in energy and environmental technology,
natural resources, urban programs and global climate change.
Energy topics treated by his programs included privatization
and corporatization of the power sector, regulatory reform,
technology transfer, environmental regulatory reform in the
energy sector and others. This was a
Senior Executive Service Position.
Previously, Dr. Sullivan was the Director of the USAID Office
of Energy (1986-1997) (and Deputy Director 1984 -1986). In this
position he directed a team of 25 engineers, economists and
energy specialists who created and implemented energy and environmental
assistance programs for developing countries. As Director, he
built a $4 million program into a $34 million program recognized
within the development community as preeminent in the fields
of energy efficiency, renewable energy, environmental protection
and in private investment in the energy sector abroad. He has
extensive in-country experience in Asia, Latin America and Europe,
covering the entire range of energy technology, from efficiency
and renewable energy to advanced fossil technologies. In 1982-1983,
Dr. Sullivan was posted to the USAID Mission in Islamabad, Pakistan
where he served as design team leader for a $30 million Energy
Planning and Development Project and a $125 million Lakhra Coal
Mining and Power Generation project. Activities included energy
planning and policy development; environmental impacts of energy
development; coal assessment and development; oil and gas supply
issues; power generation; industrial energy conservation; and
renewable sources of energy including solar, biomass and small
hydro systems.
Dr. Sullivan holds a PhD in geophysical hydrodynamics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970) and a B.C.E. in
Civil Engineering from Manhattan College. He is conversant in
French and can understand Spanish and German.
Ahmad
Ghamarian, PhD
Dr. Ghamarian has over 25 years of management, engineering and
teaching experience in the energy sector, largely dealing with
energy and sub-sector issues in developing and emerging market
countries. He is currently the President of Energy Markets Group.
Previously, as Executive Director of the Energy Group at the Institute
of International Education (IIE), he managed all of IIE’s
energy related programs. Specifically, Dr. Ghamarian has designed,
managed and supervised a series of capacity building/training
projects for the energy sectors, including national to utility-level
policy and planning, in countries of Asia, Europe, Africa, and
Latin America, from the needs assessment stage to training implementation
and evaluation. To do this he has collaborated closely with a
wide range of clients, including multilateral and bilateral donor
organizations, in-country government ministries, private firms,
and NGOs.
Dr. Ghamarian went to IIE from the Exxon Research and Engineering
Company, where he performed research and development, and provided
consulting services to promote energy efficiency in Exxon’s
refineries and chemical plants worldwide. Previously, he served
as a Project Engineer with the Combustion Energy Company in Tehran,
working on the design of several power-generation projects for
the Iranian onshore/offshore oil industry. Dr. Ghamarian has served
as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of
Technology, in the areas of energy and power, and as Adjunct Professor
at The George Washington University, teaching Least-Cost Utility
Planning and Power System Economics. He is the author or co-author
of over two-dozen technical reports and papers on energy and power
that focus on efficiency and planning for sustainable development.
His last report is titled Best Practices in Electricity Regulation
in Latin America.
Dr. Ghamarian holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
with a focus on Energy Technology and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
with a focus on Power Systems. His native language is Farsi, which
he speaks fluently along with English, and some Arabic.
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