California Clean Innovation Conference 2009

CACI 2009 Keynote Speaker

	_________________________________________ Peter C. Fusaro Chairman, Global Change Associates _________________________________________
Related Links
Website: Global Change Associates Website: Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC Book: What Went Wrong at Enron; P. Fusaro, Wiley 2002 Event: Wall Street Green Trading Summit 2009

Peter C. Fusaro has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 34 years. He currently is Chairman of Global Change Associates, a financial services advisory in New York. He also holds the annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit with Reuters in New York. Peter is a well known expert on Asia Pacific energy and environmental financial markets. In 2004, Peter co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC, which tracks energy and environmental hedge funds, and in 2009, published the first “Green Hedge Fund Directory”.

As an energy and environmental industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets, Peter was selected for Who’s Who in America for 2007-2010 and Who’s Who in the World for 2009. Peter is also the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron and 15 other books on energy and the environmental financial markets. Peter’s latest book, Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques, published by Oxford University Press, is expected later this year.

Additional current work includes the upcoming launch of the Global Change
Foundation Inc. as an educational non-profit foundation oriented toward accelerating knowledge transfer on cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy. In the fall of 2008, he launched the Green Salon in New York, which pairs musicians with environmental experts in an informal artistic setting for knowledge transfer and fun.

Peter also acts as an advisor to several cleantech software and hardware companies in the US and Canada. Peter is a board member of CleanAir Technology and an Advisory Board member of Belgrave Carbon Exchange, Carbon Flow, Ecoverdance, EcoSysCapital Management, and CRD Analytics. He is also on the Advisory Board of the ERB Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, The Ross School of Business, and the University of Michigan.

Peter graduated with an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University.