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-seven 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.

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.

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 was responsible for the timely completion of the Department's 1998 Comprehensive National Energy Strategy and for leading its Caspian energy strategy in Central Asia. He also oversaw the operation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the national research program to develop and demonstrate advanced natural gas, petroleum, and coal 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 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.

Mr. Gee 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.

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.

A native Houstonian, he was the first Asian Pacific American to become an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy and was the highest-ranking Texan of Asian ancestry ever to serve in Texas State government. He is married to Dr. Pauline Wong Gee and has one daughter.