Ken Malloy is founder and CEO of the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. He is nationally recognized as a bold visionary on the energy industry's transition from monopoly regulation to open access markets, having been cited in Business Week, National Review, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He is an energetic, provocative, and entertaining speaker who has made over 300 presentations in the last decade to every sector of the energy industry.

Ken joined PHB Hagler Bailly from 1996 to 1999 in the Corporate Strategy and Management Group and the Market Analysis Group. Ken specialized in corporate strategies relating to restructuring gas and electric retail markets. Ken was project manager of Project ACCESS, a retail energy competition service that assists companies in understanding how changing policy drivers will transform market structure and corporate opportunities in this future (cited in Business Week, 1/12/98), developed a strategic initiative for consumer education (cited in New York Times, Missouri's Strategy: Defusing Public Anger Before it Explodes, 1/18/99 Energy Supplement 6), and led the expert witness team of the first successful lawsuit on affiliate abuse.

Ken was the U.S. Department of Energy's lead career official on policies relating to competition, regulatory reform, and industry restructuring over three Administrations (1987 to 1996). A lawyer by training, he has held positions in the areas of natural gas, electricity and oil policy.

Ken has been called a key architect of the major policy developments resulting in the dramatic restructuring of natural gas markets over the last decade ("Architects of the Revolution," Gas Daily's NG Magazine, Winter 98/99) and was instrumental in repositioning DOE's policies in favor of permitting natural gas to play a more central role in energy, environmental, and economic policy.

• He organized DOE's five successful conferences on the impact of state regulation on retail markets, jointly sponsored with NARUC.
• He developed the Clinton Administration's State and Federal natural gas regulatory reform initiatives in the Climate Change Action Plan and the Domestic Natural Gas and Oil Initiative.
• He authored the natural gas regulatory reform initiatives in the National Energy Strategy (NES) and forged a consensus within the Bush Administration to encourage FERC to implement the NES recommendations through a generic rulemaking that became Order 636.
• He developed and coordinated the Bush Administration's legislation on wellhead decontrol in 1989 and oil pipeline regulatory reform in EPACT of 1992.

He was Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Illinois Commerce Commission, Director and Assistant Director of the predecessor of FERC's Office of Economic Policy, and staff attorney in FERC's Office of General Counsel. During his FERC tenure, he worked on regulations that encouraged the development of competition in natural gas markets, working extensively on Orders 436 and 451. Prior to FERC, Ken was a law professor at Western New England College School of Law, teaching in the area of federal economic regulation of industry.

Ken graduated with honors from Boston College Law School in 1978, where he was an author and editor of the Boston College Law Review.