February 10, 2005

Speaker Biographies

Peter Huber is a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, and founding member of the Digital Power Group. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, as well as a partner at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen and Todd.  His latest book, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 2000), sets out a new conservative manifesto on the environment which advocates a return to conservation and environmental policy based on sound science and market economics.  In addition to being a regular columnist in Forbes magazine, Huber has also published articles in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Science, the Wall Street Journal, Reason, Regulation, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.  Among Huber's recent works are Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts with the University of Pennsylvania's Kenneth Foster (MIT Press, 1999), and Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Mark P. Mills, is a co-founding partner with Peter Huber in Digital Power Capital, and partner in the Digital Power Group.  His career began in integrated circuits and defense electronics, where he holds patents, and later moved into energy technology policy.  Before co-founding Digital Power Capital, Mark founded and ran a technology consulting business for seventeen years. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office, a number of the Federal Research Laboratories, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy.  His articles have appeared in various publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The American Spectator, and The New York Times Magazine.

Spencer Reiss is a writer and editor specializing in the broad impact of technology. A long-time foreign correspondent for Newsweek and contributing editor at Wired, he writes regularly for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and MIT Technology Review.

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