The Range of the Possible: Energy Alternatives in the Market (Session 2)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Speakers
John E. Bryson
Chairman and CEO, Edison International; cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Correspondent, The Economist; Author of "POWER TO THE PEOPLE"
Presider
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

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