Speaker Biographies

Robert Bryce is the managing editor of Energy Tribune and a prolific journalist. He has written about policy issues for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and other publications. He is also a contributing writer for the Texas Observer and a regular contributor to the Saudi business newspaper Al Eqtisadiah. His first book, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron (PublicAffairs, 2002) was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly. He is also the author of Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America’s Superstate (PublicAffairs, 2004) and, most recently, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence (PublicAffairs, 2008), which explains why energy independence is more appealing to Americans than it is achievable.

Kenneth P. Green studies public policy with respect to air pollution and climate change, energy and the environment, transportation and the environment, and environmental chemicals as a resident scholar at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia entries and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students titled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Mr. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California’s Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at British Columbia’s Fraser Institute.

Steven F. Hayward is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Environmental Studies at AEI and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute. He is also an adjunct fellow of the John Ashbrook Center and a former Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Hayward studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. He is author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published jointly by the AEI Press and the Pacific Research Institute. Mr. Hayward contributes to AEI’s Environmental Policy Outlook series and has authored numerous books, including Greatness (Crown, 2005), The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964–1980 (Crown, 2001), and Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity (Crown, 1998). He is the coauthor of Air Quality in America: A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks (AEI Press, 2008). Mr. Hayward has also had articles published in National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reason, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and the Chicago Tribune.

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