CANBERRA 2008 Users' Group

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Meeting

CANBERRA is pleased to announce the confirmation of Richard Myers, Vice President of Policy Development at NEI (Nuclear Energy Institute), as Keynote Speaker for our 2008 Users’ Group Meeting.

Mr. Myers is responsible for defining policy initiatives, developing legislative proposals and managing Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) programs in such areas as environmental policy and new nuclear power plant deployment. He is manages NEI’s programs to implement the financial incentives for new nuclear plant construction authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

He is also responsible for tax issues affecting the nuclear power industry and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission-related financial issues, and for working with NEI member companies to define NEI’s position on such environmental issues as climate change. NEI’s Policy Development Division is also responsible for developing NEI’s annual business plan, monitoring energy policy issues and market trends, and conducting analysis of how changes in the energy markets affect existing nuclear plants and the economic prospects for new nuclear plants. Mr. Myers is also responsible for NEI’s liaison with the financial community.

Mr. Myers started his career as a journalist in 1972 as assistant editor of Petroleum Marketer, a monthly magazine. In 1973, Mr. Myers moved to Washington, D.C., as senior editor of Oil Week, a weekly newsletter covering the petroleum industry. From 1973 to 1986, he was executive editor of King Publishing Group and was in charge of all the company’s publications, including The Energy Daily and Defense Week. He has also written extensively for other publications, including The Financial Times, Fortune and The American Spectator.

He joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness (USCEA)—one of NEI’s predecessor organizations—in 1987 as director of editorial programs and was named USCEA’s vice president of industry communications and publications in 1990.

Mr. Myers received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., and completed the University of Michigan Business School’s Electric Utility Executive Program in 1993.