FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 29, 2009

Contact: Felisa Neuringer Klubes 202.663.5626
E-mail: fklubes@jhu.edu

Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson to Speak About Global Energy Security at JHU SAIS

Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will speak at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on Thursday, February 5 at 1 p.m.

Jackson, who also serves as a vice chairman of the Council on Competitiveness, will discuss “From Rhetoric to Reality: U.S. and Global Energy Security” at this forum hosted by SAIS’s Global Energy and Environment Initiative (GEEI).

Jackson has long called for the development of a comprehensive energy security roadmap. She is engaged in energy security and climate change policy from an unusual array of vantage points: as president of Rensselaer; as co-chair of the Council on Competitiveness’ Energy Security, Innovation and Sustainability initiative; as member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ climate change task force; and as a member of the board of a global transportation company (FedEX), an oil company (Marathon Oil), a utility company (PSEG) and the NYSE Euronext.

The event, free and open to the public, will be held in Room 500 of the school’s Bernstein-Offit Building, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to geei@jhu.edu or 202.663.5786.

Media who want to cover this event should register with Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu.