Michael Deering, Long Island Power Authority 's first Vice President for Environmental Affairs, is responsible for overseeing the implementation of a workable repowering strategy and for acquiring new renewable energy resources into LIPA's energy portfolio. With 25 years of environmental and energy experience, he has crafted and negotiated legislative measures to preserve open space, remediate properties, restore Long Island Sound, protect the island's underground drinking water supply and water resources throughout the state, and to address the public health implications of pesticides.  Deering has a bachelor's degree in political science from C.W. Post College and a master's degree in government and politics from St. John's University. 

Michael Granoff founded Maniv Investments, LLC, parent of Maniv Bioventures and Maniv Energy Capital, in 1997. Maniv Energy Capital was the first investor in Project Better Place, a $200 million startup founded to build and operate an electric charge network, allowing countries to adopt electric cars and eliminate their dependence on oil for transportation.

Prior to that, he was national constituency coordinator for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and implemented information strategies for his family's apparel manufacturing business. Since 1985, he has co-managed Val d'Or Farms, which breeds and races trotting and pacing horses in the United States and Canada. Granoff received his B.A. from Tufts University and his J.D. and M.B.A. from Northwestern University and its Kellogg School of Management, and is a member of the bars of New York and New Jersey. In addition to harness racing, his interests include running and American musical theater.

James Hicks is an analyst in Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, the office charged with writing and implementing PlaNYC. A native of New York City, Hicks graduated from Duke University with a degree in public policy. Responsible for all PlaNYC progress reporting and communications, Hicks monitors the status on PlaNYC’s 127 initiatives and develops bi-annual reports. In addition, he provides responses to external inquiries and information requirements addressed to the mayor’s office regarding PlaNYC’s land use, water, transportation, energy, air quality, or climate change initiatives. Hicks manages the PlaNYC Web page and all public presentations about PlaNYC.

Janet Larsen, director of research for the Earth Policy Institute, is responsible for planning new projects and coordinating the efforts of the organization’s research team. With a degree in earth systems from Stanford University, Larsen uses her interdisciplinary background in researching Eco-Economy Updates and Eco-Economy Indicators, similar to her work at the Worldwatch Institute, where she did research for Issue Alerts, State of the World, and Vital Signs. She is a contributor to The Earth Policy Reader and has written on primate decline, illegal logging, land use, and population. Her other interests include agriculture, biodiversity, global change, natural resource management, and urban planning. Larsen, who has also studied the rainforest and the amphibians of the Peruvian Amazon, says she "enjoys the great outdoors."

Daniel Lerch is author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty, the first major municipal guidebook on peak oil and global warming. A program manager with the Post Carbon Institute, Lerch has worked on urban planning issues in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He is also a co-founder of the City Repair Project, an award-winning non-profit organization that focuses on community public space issues. Lerch has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Rutgers University and a Master of Urban Studies from Portland State University. Since the publication of Post Carbon Cities, he has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, delivering presentations and workshops to key staff and officials, university groups, and public audiences.

Ariella Rosenberg Maron is the deputy director of long-term planning and sustainability for the City of New York's Mayor's Office. She was part of the core team that created PlaNYC 2030, the city's long-term sustainability plan that covers energy, transportation, water, air, land use and climate change; she currently oversees its implementation. Prior to this, Maron worked in the energy division of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where she specialized in energy efficiency and sustainability. She has also worked as an urban planner in the Bronx for the New York City Department of City Planning and as an analyst at the energy, economic consulting firm PA Consulting Group (formerly PHB Hagler Bailly).

Maron also teaches a course on sustainability indicators at the Pratt Institute. She received a Master's degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there, she concentrated on environmental policy and urban design and focused her thesis research on mainstreaming green building in New York City. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tim Stout is vice president of energy efficiency at National Grid, where he is responsible for the design, implementation, and evaluation of National Grid's energy efficiency programs in New England. He has worked in a variety of DSM-related positions at National Grid since 1987. Stout serves on the board of directors of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.Prior to joining National Grid, he worked as an energy specialist at the Conservation Law Foundation. Stout earned his bachelor's degree in environmental studies from Middlebury College and his master's degree in energy and environmental policy from Boston University.