Professor Tom James has been involve din energy markets since 1989, acting as a consultant to many energy firms during this period. In early 2006, he w2as appointed Chair Professor of Natural Gas markets at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (www.upesindia.org), which specializes in energy sector-related graduate and postgraduate degree courses. before embarking on a career as a consultant to the energy & Commodity Derivatives in 2004, he as a director for the Commodity Derivatives Group of the Investment banking arm of the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Japan, and Director of Traded Energy Markets at the French bank Credit Agricole Indosuez (now known as Calyon). He is a member of the Energy Institute, the global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), the Society of Technical Analysts, Cambridge, U.K., the institute of Directors and of the Council of Energy Advisors. He is also a participant in the International Task Force on Commodity Risk Management at the World Bank. His publications include Energy Price Risk (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), which has been published in English, Chinese and Russian, and Energy Hedging in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He was a contributor to Agribusiness & commodity Risk Strategies and Management (Risk Books, 2003).

Peter C. Fusaro, a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon and Tufts Universities, is the best-selling author of What Went  Wrong at Enron and 11 other books. He is an energy-industry thought leader noted for his keen insights on emerging energy and  environmental trading issues. He is co-principal of the New York-based Energy Hedge Fund center LLC, an online research and consultancy focused on energy and environmental hedge funds (www.energyhedgefunds.com). Peer coined the term "Green Trading" and holds the wall Street Green Trading Summit in New York each spring. He has been actively engaged in market-based solutions to global warming, clean technology, renewable energy and emissions trading since 1990. His most recent research has focused on water hedge funds.