Strategic Alliances
Biography of Robert W. Gee
 Robert
W. Gee is President and Founder of the Gee Strategies
Group LLC, a policy analysis and advocacy firm for
the energy, utility and critical infrastructure industries
based in metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has a twenty-six
year record of achievement as a seasoned Washington
and Texas-based senior public official, attorney,
and executive performing complex assignments involving
resolution of major energy and telecommunications
issues at the state, national, and international level.
From 1997 to 2000 he served as Assistant
Secretary for Policy and International Affairs and
as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy of the U.S.
Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He chaired
the Energy Department's Central Asia/Caspian energy
strategy to promote strategic oil and gas production
and pipeline objectives, and was responsible for the
timely completion of the Department's 1998 Comprehensive
National Energy Strategy. He also oversaw the operation
of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the national
research program to develop and demonstrate advanced
clean coal, natural gas, and petroleum technologies.
From 1991 until 1997 he served as
a member of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
and as its Chairman from 1991 through 1995. During
his service, he chaired the Committee on Electricity
and Ad Hoc Committee on Electric Industry Restructuring
for the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners.
He served as Vice President for Development
and Partner Relations for the Electricity Innovation
Institute (E2I), an affiliate of the Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI), where he urged increased
efforts to enhance and digitize the electric utility
infrastructure of the United States to address reliability
and homeland security priorities.
He has testified numerous times before
the United States Congress, and has been interviewed
and quoted by various news media, including USA Today,
The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, National
Journal, Energy News Live and CNBC television. His
editorials have appeared in the Los Angeles Times,
the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle.
He has served as an Attorney Advisor
at the Interstate Commerce Commission and as a Supervisory
Trial Attorney at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
He held the position of General Attorney at Tenneco
Oil Company, and was Of Counsel to the law firm of
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Mr. Gee received
a Bachelor of Arts Degree in government with honors
from the University of Texas and a Doctor of Jurisprudence
degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
He is a member of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group,
a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum,
a Fellow with the Texas Bar Foundation, an Advisory
Board member of Saber Partners LLC, and a Board member
of the Committee of 100. His past affiliations have
included serving as a trustee for St. Edward's University
in Austin, Texas, as a member of the National Selection
Committee of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, and
as a member of the Dallas Regional Panel of the President's
Commission on White House Fellowships.
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