Distinguished Guests
Anne Thompson, Moderator
Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent
NBC News
Anne Thompson was named NBC News’ chief environmental affairs correspondent in April 2007. She reports on such issues as alternative fuels, global warming, land usage, and new technologies for all NBC News broadcasts including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, on MSNBC, and online at msnbc.com.
Thompson was previously the chief financial correspondent for NBC News. In that role, she reported on the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the increased cost of health care and its impact on the economy, alternative fuel vehicles, identity theft, and the politics of the credit card industry.
In 2006, Thompson received the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award, and she was part of the Nightly News team that won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award and an Emmy for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In 2004, she was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism for her series of reports on the jobless economic recovery.
Thompson graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in American studies.
Watch reports from Anne Thompson
- Shining a Light on New Energy
- Riding a wave to energy independence?
- Declaring a ‘sustainability’ major
Jeff Immelt
Chairman and CEO
General Electric Company
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE’s plastics, appliance, and medical businesses.He became an officer of GE in 1989 and joined the GE Capital board in 1997. In 2000, Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer.
He has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” three times by Barron’s, and since he began serving as chief executive officer, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” in a poll conducted by Fortune magazine and one of “The World’s Most Respected Companies” in polls by Barron’s and the Financial Times.
Immelt is also a member of the Business Council and he is on the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. He earned a B.A. in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter.
GE Goes Green
Ernest Moniz
Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Physics
Director, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ernest J. Moniz is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as under secretary of the Department of Energy from October 1997 until January 2001. Moniz also served from 1995 to 1997 as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, where his responsibilities spanned the physical, life, and social and behavioral sciences, science education, and university-government partnerships. At MIT, Moniz has served as head of the Department of Physics and as director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy.
Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens and the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Moniz received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation.
Moniz and Energy Endeavors
