Paul Rennie
Head of the Global Economy Group, British Embassy

Paul Rennie is the Head of the Global Economy Group at the British Embassy, Washington DC, leading the UK’s climate and energy, economic and trade, and science and technology networks across the United States. Prior to that, he led the Foreign Office’s strategic transformation programme, focused on delivering a 21st century Diplomatic Service.

Paul was born in Edinburgh and educated at George Heriot’s School, before going on to graduate with an MA in Economics and Politics (Edinburgh University) and an MSc in Economics (York University).

He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2001 as the first of a new group of Diplomatic Service Economists. He has served at the United Nations (New York), Brazil, India and Malaysia, as well as working on secondment to the Cabinet Office and the Department for International Development.

Paul is a professional economist, with a particular expertise the analysis of emerging markets and the international education sector, presenting on the future of education at several international conferences. In 2019 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Heriot-Watt University in recognition of his ‘expertise and contributions to the development and strategic positioning of UK education overseas’.

He was appointed Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s 2015 New Year’s Honours List for services to UK-India relations.

Away from work and family, Paul writes blogs on leadership, plays tennis, and tries to read as many history and politics books as his spare time will allow. He speaks English, Portuguese, Dutch, French and Hindi.

Gale E Hauck
Senior R&D Staff for Innovative Nuclear Reactors, U.S. Department of Energy

Gale Hauck has nearly 20 years of experience in the commercial nuclear industry, supporting all aspects from new construction to decommissioning. She is currently is currently serving a one-year assignment as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy at the Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, DC. Previously, Gale was a Senior R&D Staff for Innovative Nuclear Reactors at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research interests include advanced reactor technology and deployment, decarbonization, and energy justice. Before joining ORNL, she spent 14 years at Westinghouse, most recently as the Deputy Site Manager at the Barakah four-unit APR1400 construction project in the UAE. Other roles at Westinghouse included QA, product development, and engineering project management for operating plant core reloads. Before joining Westinghouse, she worked for Entergy as a reactor engineer at Indian Point nuclear plant and for Fluor at the Hanford Site.

Gale has a BS in nuclear engineering and engineering physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a ME nuclear engineering and MBA from Penn State.  She is a student in the PhD Energy Science and Engineering program at University of Tennessee Knoxville..

Harold Maguire
Consulting Engineer, Westinghouse

Doctor Maguire has over four decades of experience in the nuclear energy industry, most of this experience has been with his current employer, Westinghouse Electric Company. He currently holds the Consulting Engineering position for Westinghouse’s eVinci microreactor product, authored the product requirements for the eVinci microreactor product, and is acting as the Westinghouse technical lead for Maritime Nuclear applications, and representative on Marine Nuclear Applications Group (MNAG).

Robert Tagg
Senior Principal Naval Architect, Herbert Engineering Corp.

Rob has been involved in the design of containerships, bulk carrier, tankers, and RoRo’s for the past 45 years. He has served Herbert Engineering at all levels from junior engineer to Chairman, including extended postings in Shanghai and Singapore. In addition to general ship design, Rob’s primary areas of expertise include ship stability, damage stability, casualty & salvage analysis, container securing analysis, ballast water management, and ship emissions control. Rob’s current technical emphasis is ship design for maritime decarbonization.

Rob has a bachelors in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan and was a Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde from 1999 to 2002 involved in risk-based optimization of ship design. He is a Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) and a member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). Over the past 25 years Rob has served on multiple IMO committees and technical subcommittees as part of the US Delegation and various NGO delegations, and is currently a member of the RINA Safety Committee and the RINA delegation to the IMO’s MEPC.

Herbert Engineering is an employee-owned company, founded in 1963, with offices in San Francisco, Houston, Annapolis, Glasgow, Shanghai, and Busan. Herbert Engineering and ABS are equal partners in Herbert-ABS Software Solutions which provides ship offshore stability and loading programs, and ship casualty analysis software, to the marine industry.

Brad Hartnett
Strategic Marketing Leader, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

Brad Hartnett is the Strategic Marketing Leader of Advanced Nuclear Market Development for GE Hitachi (GEH) Nuclear Energy with over 20 years of experience in the power and utilities industry. He is responsible for market research, analysis and insights that help drive GE Hitachi’s strategic response to the clean energy transition through deployment of small, modular, and advanced nuclear reactor technologies globally.

Prior to joining GEH in May 2021, Brad was Lead Americas Analyst for Ernst & Young (EY) LLP where he was responsible for market intelligence and developing thought leadership on energy industry disruptive trends and their implications for EY’s power and utilities sector clients. Brad has also worked with USEC (now Centrus Energy) where he held several roles including Sales Executive and Senior Analyst, Nuclear Fuel Markets.

Brad is a certified Energy Risk Professional and earned a Master of Arts degree in International Trade and Investment Policy from The George Washington University. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia.  

Jonathan Stephens
Manager, BWXT Advanced Technologies

Jonathan Stephens, P.E., is a nuclear engineer and manager at BWXT Advanced Technologies in Virginia. His 25-year career spans a wide range of nuclear reactor design and analysis projects, as well as research reactor operations and experimentation. He is currently leading the nuclear and thermal-hydraulic engineering design team at BWXT Advanced Technologies, which is responsible for nuclear thermal propulsion and advanced microreactor design efforts including DRACO, Project Pele, Fission Surface Power, and BANR.

Prior to BWXT, Jonathan spent 7 years at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory working on reactor physics and radiation shielding including shield design for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) project, followed by 15 years at AREVA/Framatome managing PWR reload analysis as well as physics codes and methods development.  He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he also served as a licensed SRO and Operations Supervisor of the university research reactor.  A member of the Maritime Nuclear Application Group, Jonathan is a passionate proponent of utilizing advanced nuclear reactors for decarbonization of industry and transportation, and for providing clean and reliable energy to remote and catastrophe-stricken areas.

Anne Leidich
Partner, Pillsbury Law

With years of experience in the nuclear power industry, Anne Leidich represents domestic generators of nuclear power, advanced reactor startups, and vendors of nuclear power plant components in transactional, litigation and regulatory matters.

In her time at Pillsbury, Anne has represented energy clients in a variety of different matters, including litigation before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards on matters like subsequent license renewal, license transfers, and the issuance of materials and new plant licenses. In addition to li tigation, Anne provides advice on the application of nuclear export control laws, including DOE regulations in 10 CFR Part 810, and on regulatory matters like the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Anne also represents clients in significant nuclear industry transactions, including large scale due diligence and the negotiation of complex commercial contracts.  Anne has a degree in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University and worked for Westinghouse Electric Company prior to attending law school.