Jamie Wimberly is the President of CAEM, serves on the Board of Directors of CAEM and CAEM Canada, and leads many of CAEM's efforts, including the DISCO of the Future Forum, the Distributed Energy Task Force, and other projects. Before joining CAEM, he served as Vice President of the Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA), the oldest public interest organization in the Nation focusing on the energy, telecommunications and other network industries providing essential services to consumers. At CECA, he initiated and directed the CECA Distributed Energy and Domestic Policy Forum, the Electric Restructuring Forum, the Convergence Forum, the Broadband Forum, and the Universal Service Forum, in addition to a number of other projects that resulted in new policies and business practices. He previously worked in the office of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur for two separate time periods and had a wide range of responsibilities that took him well beyond the confines of that office, including being one of the key congressional aides in relation to U.S. trade policy, serving on the House Appropriations Committee, and working closely in a bipartisan manner with the House and Senate leadership and their staffs. Jamie is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with an M.A. in international economics and a focus on energy markets. He has published more than 40 articles on energy issues, telecommunications policy and international trade.