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 levels.
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. |
