Jarrod Goentzel is executive director of the MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) Program and executive director of the MIT Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network in Europe. He is also a research associate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics with research interests in the areas of supply chain network design, supply chain finance, humanitarian logistics, public health and renewable energy supply chains. 

Previously, Goentzel directed the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, leading MIT’s role in developing novel education, research and outreach programs in partnership with the Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain. Dr. Goentzel has worked with global health and humanitarian organizations such as Oxfam, Save the Children, Red Cross, World Food Programme, John Snow Inc. and USAID to develop supply chains that effectively meet needs.  He has overseen several masters’ thesis projects and presented results at both academic and humanitarian conferences.

He received a PhD from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MS in applied mathematics from Colorado State University, and a BA in mathematics from Tabor College with studies at the Technical University of Budapest (Hungary).

William Green earned his PhD in experimental physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, working with C. Bradley Moore. He did postdoctoral research in theoretical chemistry at Cambridge University, where he was named the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow by Darwin College.

After a short postdoctoral fellowship with Marsha Lester at the University of Pennsylvania, he took a research staff position at Exxon Research and Engineering in 1991. In 1997, he joined the MIT chemical engineering faculty. He received tenure in 2004 and was promoted to professor in 2007. He is also the editor of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics.

Green is a world leader in computer methods for predicting the rates and products of complicated chemically reacting systems, including fuel and combustion chemistry. He has won several awards for research and teaching, and has twice received the American Chemical Society's Glenn Award in Fuel Chemistry (in 2004 and 2009).

John Heywood has been a faculty member since 1968 at MIT, where he has been Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory.

His interests are focused on internal combustion engines, their fuels, and broader studies of future transportation technology, fuel supply options, and air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions. He has published more than 200 papers in the technical literature, and is the author of several books including a major text and professional reference Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals.

He is a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He has received many awards for his work, including the 1996 U.S. Department of Transportation Award for the Advancement of Motor Vehicle Research and Development, and the Society of Automotive Engineers 2008 Award for his contributions to automotive policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a PhD from MIT, a DSc from Cambridge University, and honorary degrees from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and City University, London.

Ruben Juanes is the ARCO Assistant Professor in Energy Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 2006, he was acting assistant professor at Stanford University (2003-2005), and assistant professor at the University of Texas-Austin (2006).

He leads a research group in the area of soft-matter physics, with application to energy-driven problems: oil and gas recovery, methane hydrates and geological carbon sequestration. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal publications and 50-plus conference papers. In addition to his graduate and undergraduate teaching at MIT, he is the director of the MIT short course "Carbon Capture and Storage: Science, Technology and Policy." He has been a plenary speaker at several conferences, including the 2006 Gordon Research Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media.

Mujid S. Kazimi is professor of nuclear and mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems; he also holds the Tokyo Electric Power Company Chair in Nuclear Engineering at MIT.

He is currently active in development of innovative fuels for LWRs and analysis of the nuclear fuel-cycle options. He is the author of the two-volume textbook, Nuclear Systems, on thermal hydraulic design and safety analysis of nuclear reactors.

He has been a member of advisory committees for R&D programs at several national laboratories in the United States and other countries. He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Committee on the Hydrogen Economy in 2003-2004 and the NAE Committee on R&D Programs for Development of Nuclear Energy in 2006-2007. He was a member of the Board of Managers of Battelle Energy Alliance, charged by the USDOE with management of the Idaho National Laboratory from 2005-2009.

He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Kazimi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. He obtained a BEng degree from University of Alexandria, Egypt, and SM and PhD degrees from MIT in nuclear engineering.

Melanie A. Kenderdine joined the MIT Energy Initiative as associate director for strategic planning in March 2007. Prior to joining MIT, she was vice president of the Gas Technology Institute for Washington operations, where she was involved in major initiatives to increase domestic natural gas supply, enhance energy efficiency and security and promote the research needs of the natural gas industry.

From 1993-2001, Kenderdine served in several key posts at the U.S. Department of Energy, including director of the Office of Policy and senior advisor to the secretary. Kenderdine has testified before Congress on many occasions, has served on numerous energy task forces and is a frequent speaker at international energy conferences, including the World Petroleum Congress and IEA's International Energy Experts Conference in Abu Dhabi.

James L. Kirtley Jr. is a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He has also worked for General Electric, Large Steam Turbine Generator Department, as an electrical engineer; for Satcon Technology Corporation as general manager of the Tech Center and as chief scientist; and was gastdozent at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He continues as a director for Satcon.

Kirtley attended MIT as an undergraduate and received the degree of PhD from MIT in 1971. Kirtley is a specialist in electric machinery and electric power systems. He served as editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion from 1998-2006 and continues to serve as editor for that journal and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Electric Power Components and Systems. Kirtley is a fellow of IEEE and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the Nikola Tesla prize in 2002 and the IEEE Third Millennium medal. Kirtley is a Registered Professional Engineer in Massachusetts.