The National Fuel Cell Education Program is pleased to provide your organization the opportunity to engage a respected and qualified speaker to advance your understanding of renewable hydrogen technology.

For information about our speakers and to request a speaker contact NFCEP at:

NFCEP / Eco Soul
18051 Irvine Boulevard
Tustin, California 92780

Telephone:  714.573.4955

E-mail:  Information@ecosoul.org

Woodrow W. Clark II, MA3, Ph.D.

Clark is a "qualitative economist" who just finished his book, "Agile Energy Systems: global lessons learned from the California Energy Crisis" (with co-author, Professor Ted Bradshaw, UC Davis) due from Elsevier Press, UK in July 04. He is now a Visiting Professor in California and Italy. Clark had started and operated Clark Communications Inc in1980 after earning three separate Masters of Arts degrees and his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He is now Managing Director of Clark Communications LLC, founded in San Francisco, but currently located in Los Angeles. Clark Communications, LLC focuses on "civic markets" or how business and public policy can work together to achieve, leverage and promote the same societal end results, especially in the commercialization of advanced technologies, corporate governance, finance and international markets such as those in the energy, environmental and climate change sectors. Clark was an editor and author in the international science and technology issues as well as the finance of renewable energy focused on climate change through the UN Intergovernmental Panel and Framework Convention for Climate Change.

Clark was the Deputy Director / Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Gray Davis’ Office of Planning and Research from 2000-03, where he focused on sustainable development, renewable energy, advanced and emerging technologies, finance and public-private commercial strategies for "California’s Next Economy". Clark was responsible for starting the planning and implementation of California’s Hydrogen Economy and its "Hydrogen Freeway" until the Recall of Governor Davis occurred, prior to that he was in the early 1990s, Managing Director, Center for New Venture Alliance, California State University, Hayward. During the 1990s, he was Manager of Strategic Planning for the Energy-Environmental Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From 1999-2000, he became a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Aalborg University, Denmark until Governor Davis’ staff recruited him to return to California to assist with the energy crisis.

Mary-Rose de Valladares

Hydrogen for Power Production Session

Mary-Rose de Valladares is the founder and principal of M.R.S. Enterprises, LLC, which provides consulting, business development and lobbying services in energy and environment. Her work in energy, education, infrastructure and real estate development spans public, private and non-profit sectors. A former senior planner at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Ms. de Valladares’ public and non-profit sector clients include the World Bank and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, as well as the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency. Ms. de Valladares has a track record for funding, managing and growing profitable enterprises. She co-founded and managed her own alternate energy construction and engineering company in New Mexico and has worked for a publicly traded PEM fuel cell company as well as a bioenergy hydrogen start-up.

In addition to an MBA from Georgetown University, Ms. de Valladares holds an M.A. in a planning related field and a Diplôme from the University of Paris at the Sorbonne. She is also a Fellow of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Her lifelong interest in education found expression in development of HOPE: the Hydrogen Outreach Program for Education for the Department of Energy.

M.R.S. Enterprises manages the IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, now celebrating its 25th year of collaborative international R,D&D in hydrogen production, storage and utilization.

Robert Wilder, J.D., Ph.D.

Robert Wilder is the co-Manager of the WilderHill Index of clean energy stocks, a manager of WilderShares LLC, and the President of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Institute, at h2fuelcells.org. Rob also is on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of the book, "Listening to the Sea: The Politics of Improving Environmental Protection" and widely published on clean energy systems, hydrogen and the conservation of marine biodiversity.

Rob's received numerous awards and honors for his academic work including a Fulbright Fellowship, AAAS/ EPA Fellowship in Environmental Science & Technology, and National Academy of Sciences Young Investigator Awards. He taught previously at UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, and University of Massachusetts, and serves on the Board of Governors, marine section, of the Society for Conservation Biology. He is a frequent public speaker and has made numerous TV and radio appearances to discuss clean energy systems and smarter conservation alternatives. Rob's an avid surfer too who likes traveling to great surfing spots, hiking, and swimming. He lives in Encinitas, California in a fully-solar PV powered home with his wife and two children.

Rob enjoys public speaking engagements and providing information about smarter, better, greener energy paths.