BIO:  Professor Michal Moore is an economist and Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary.   He is also a visiting Professor of Economics and Systems Engineering at Cornell University in New York where he teaches courses in energy systems and economics.  Pr. Moore's research is concentrated in the area of energy regulatory and market oversight issues including the externalities of unconventional fuel development. 

A native of California, Dr. Moore is a former regulator in the energy industry in California and is the former Chief Economist for the United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.  He read for his PhD at the University of Cambridge in the UK and is a member of Darwin College.