Dr. Chunshan Song is the Director of the EMS Energy Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Fuel Science and Chemical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.  His research interests include CO₂ capture and conversion, catalysis for energy conversion and chemicals, and adsorption for ultra-clean clean fuels. He served as Chair of American Chemical Society’s Fuel Division and Petroleum Division, chaired the 12^th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization and also co-chaired the 24^th North American Catalysis Society Biennial Meeting. He has over 300 refereed publications and delivered over 50 plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences worldwide. He is the Editor for Advances in Catalysis and serves on advisory boards for 14 research journals in catalysis, CO₂ utilization, energy and fuels and chemical engineering.

Mr. Bookbinder began practicing law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where for many years he handled securities, mergers and acquisitions, product liability, white-collar criminal, intellectual property and other matters.

In the public interest sphere, Mr. Bookbinder has litigated cases under all of the major environmental statutes including, as Sierra Club’s Chief Climate Counsel, managing the Massachusetts v. EPA case. He then represented environmental groups in both stationary- and mobile-source carbon matters, including the thicket of litigation over California’s greenhouse gas vehicle standards.

Dealing with Congress and federal agencies, Mr. Bookbinder helped lead efforts on both global warming legislation and Clean Air Act greenhouse gas regulation, and has testified in front of House and Senate committees on these issues (and he may be the only person ever invited by both Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe). He has also advised states as to their greenhouse gas regulatory authority.

In pursuing his goal of practical, cost-effective carbon solutions Mr. Bookbinder has frequently told environmental groups, members of Congress, and federal and state agencies things they did not want to hear.

Before forming Element VI, he represented clients (ranging from environmental groups to the natural gas industry) in a variety of regulatory and litigation matters.

Thomas Covert studies industrial organization, energy economics, finance, and applied econometrics. His research has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Prior to joining Booth, Covert was a postdoctoral scholar in the University of Chicago Department of Economics & EPIC. Additionally, he was a senior analyst at Cornerstone Research (Boston) before pursuing his Ph.D. studies.

Covert holds a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University, and a S.B. in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.