THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2002
7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club (map)

Loretta Lynch

President, California Public Utilities Commission

”Funding California's Energy Future“

Energy pirates, power shortages, rolling blackouts, and skyrocketing utility bills have made energy a daily national headline. Join CPUC President Loretta Lynch as she takes us to the heart of the California energy crises and then prognosticates our future. Ms. Lynch was appointed by Governor Gray Davis as President of the California Public Utilities Commission on March 22, 2000. She is responsible for managing 900 employees and is one of five commissioners charged with regulating the California telecommunications, utilities, commercial transportation, and water companies. Since the electricity and natural gas price spikes of the summer of 2000 Ms. Lynch has led the PUC's efforts to protect California from price gouging. She received her law degree from Yale University of Law where she was articles editor of "Yale Law and Policy Review."

William R. Stensrud
General Partner, Enterprise Partners

Bill Stensrud has come to be known as an industry leader with an impressive knack for identifying growing markets in networking and telecommunication equipment and services.

Bill has over 30 years of experience with computer and communication products, software and service industries, including founding and/or serving as the Chief Executive Officer of three successful high technology companies and serving on twenty Boards of Directors.

Prior to joining Enterprise Partners in January, 1997, Bill made several significant start-up investments into what later became multi-billion dollar companies: Juniper Networks, Paradyne Corporation, and GlobeSpan Corporation.

Edward E. Leamer
Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management, Professor of Economics and Statistics, UCLA Anderson School of Business, Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast.

Dr. Leamer received his BA in mathematics from Princeton, his PhD. in economics and an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan.

After serving as Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard he joined UCLA in 1975 as Professor of Economics and served as Chair from 1983 to 1987. In 1990 he moved to the Anderson Graduate School of Management and was appointed to the Chancey J. Medberry Chair. Leamer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and has published over 100 articles and 4 books.

For further information on the UCSD Department of Economics, please call Rosetta Ellis at (858)822-0235 or email, rellis@ucsd.edu

Paul Drake, Dean of Social Sciences
University of California, San Diego

Alan N. Nevin, Chief Economist
Marketpoint Realty Advisors

Rick F. Hall, President and CEO
La Jolla Bank

Grace Evans Cherashore, CEO
The Evans Hotels

Bill Nelson, Chairman of the Board
Scripps Bank

Jack White, Chairman
Jack White Division of Waterhouse Securities

Ross Starr, Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Mary Walshok, Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor
Extended Studies and Public Programs
University of California, San Diego

Don Billings
Billings and Associates

The UCSD Economics Roundtable thanks La Jolla Bank, MarketPoint Realty Advisors, the Evans Hotels, UCSD/IRPS, and the San Diego Daily Transcript for their generous support of this series.