Greg R. White joined the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in December 2015 as the Executive Director. He is responsible for the overall management of the Association and directs the implementation of programs and policies of the Association while promoting the Association’s interests in Washington.  He also has served as Executive Director of the National Regulatory Research Institute since 2017. 

Greg served as a Commissioner on the Michigan Public Service Commission (2009 – 2015), appointed by then-Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and previously held various positions in and out of government in energy and utility regulation as a policy advisor, legislative liaison, and manager of federal relations. Greg has provided expert testimony before the U.S. Congress, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission on energy markets, transmission policy, and nuclear waste management.

White holds a Master of Public Administration from Grand Valley State University and a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University. His professional achievements include serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Regulatory Research Institute, Chairman of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition’s Executive Committee, President of the Board of Directors of the Organization of PJM States, Inc., and he is a lifetime member of the Pi Alpha Alpha, National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.

Elliot Mainzer is President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) in Folsom, California. For the last 25 years, he has been a leader in helping to achieve a reliable and affordable clean energy transition by working to support innovation and creativity in renewable energy development, transmission planning, market design and regional collaboration.

Mainzer joined the CAISO on September 30, 2020 after an 18-year career at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), including seven years as Administrator and CEO. At BPA, he led efforts to unlock the wind-energy potential of the Pacific Northwest, managed the development of BPA’s open-season model for transmission subscription and queue management, and worked to balance the needs of the Federal Columbia River Power System with the welfare of tribal nations and salmon protection.

Under Mainzer’s leadership at the CAISO, the organization has strengthened coordinated power and transmission planning with California’s regulatory agencies, integrated record-setting amounts of new power generation and the world’s largest fleet of lithium-ion batteries, helped preserve overall system reliability during the record- setting Western heat wave of September 2022 and provided strategic leadership and direction for the CAISO’s new extended day-ahead market proposal. Mainzer’s strong background and personal commitment to regional collaboration as an essential element of a reliable and affordable clean-energy transition have been a hallmark of his leadership at the CAISO, where he has also brought renewed focus on control center modernization, stakeholder engagement and program management in support of the organization’s new 2022-2026 strategic plan.

A native of San Francisco, Mainzer has an undergraduate degree in geography from U.C. Berkeley and master’s degrees in Business Administration and Environmental Management from Yale University. He is a senior fellow of the Oregon Chapter of the American Leadership Forum, has served on the boards of the Electric Power Research Institute and the Energy Systems Integration Group, and currently serves as co-chair of the Western Electric Industry Leaders Group.

He and his wife Margaret have twin boys. Among his non-professional pursuits, Mainzer is an amateur jazz saxophonist and dedicated student of jazz theory and history.

Michelle Michot Foss, Ph.D., is the fellow in energy, minerals and materials at Rice University's Baker Institute, helping to build capacity on non-fuel minerals supply chains. She has more than 40 years of experience in senior positions in energy (oil, gas/LNG, electric power) and environmental research, consulting and investment banking, with early career exposure to mining and mined land reclamation.

Michot Foss served in several positions at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston. She was the chief energy economist and head of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Center for Energy Economics at UTA. She was a UH Shell Interdisciplinary Scholar with grants on North American gas and power integration and national oil companies. Her career research highlights include projects for local, national and international government bodies, including the Texas Comptroller, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, World Bank, Japan’s External Trade Organization and other institutions.

She led a university-based LNG industry consortium for North America. She implemented energy development assistance and engagement programs sponsored by USAID and the Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources in more than 20 countries and regions, including Central Asia, Ukraine, West Africa, Uganda, India, Bangladesh and Mexico. She built and led the New Era in Oil, Gas & Power Value Creation program for energy sector professionals from more than 40 countries. Michot Foss was an executive instructor for the Texas Executive Education program at UT’s McCombs School of Business, and named an Exxon Mobil Instructor of Excellence. She served on the advisory committees for the UTA Jackson School of Geosciences Energy & Earth Resources graduate program and Jackson School Endowment.

She was previously a director of research at Simmons & Company International and at Rice Center. She is a member of the advisory boards for Haddington Ventures LLC, Energy Intelligence Group, North American Energy Standards Board and LNG Allies. She is past president of the IAEE, International Association for Energy Economics; past president of the USAEE; and was named USAEE Senior Fellow. Michot Foss is a partner in Harvest Gas Management LLC.

Michot Foss received her B.S. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, an M.S. from Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. from UH.

Jared Hawkins has 10 years of experience in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS). Prior to that, he worked in environmental remediation. Mr. Hawkins currently leads the Infrastructure Assessment Task for the Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI). He has been the technical lead on several tasks related to different aspects of CCUS, including risk assessment, geologic characterization, infrastructure planning, environmental impact, policy & permitting, socioeconomic factors and environmental justice, and jobs & economic impacts. He holds a Master’s degree in Hydrogeology from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Toledo.