Breakout Session IV
A Vision for Public Policies That Achieve Broad Public Goals (Roundtable)
Al Mannato 
Al Mannato is the Fuels Issues Manager in the Downstream Department at the American Petroleum Institute. His responsibilities include providing leadership and guidance on fuels issues to API members, identifying and resolving fuels related issues and developing consensus industry positions, developing comprehensive comments and position papers on behalf of API and its members on proposed regulatory and legislative actions affecting fuels, and actively communicating member company positions on fuels issues. He has been at API for over seven years. He worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on mobile source (fuels and vehicle) issues for over 15 years, and he also has experience in the electric utility industry. Al Mannato holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island, and a JD from American University’s Washington College of Law.
Ernie Shea 
Ernie Shea is the Project Coordinator for the 25x‘25 renewable energy initiative. The goal of the grassroots led and supported project is to make sure that 25 percent of the nation's energy will come from renewable energy by 2025. The 25x’25 initiative has brought together environmentalists, state and federal lawmakers and business groups who see the wisdom of cutting the country's reliance on foreign energy sources by building wind farms in rural areas and turning corn, canola and other crops into biodiesel. Farm leaders created 25x’25 after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Suzanne Hunt
Suzanne Hunt
has directed the Worldwatch Institute’s bioenergy program since
April, 2005. She coordinated the landmark study, Biofuels for
Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable
Agriculture and Energy in the 21st Century. Under her leadership, a
team of international experts in the field of bioenergy has assessed
the opportunities and risks of large-scale international development
of biofuels. Ms. Hunt meets regularly with government, industry, and
civil society leaders and with the media, appearing on CNN
International, Voice of America, and public radio. She speaks
frequently before diverse audiences ranging from European
Parliamentarians to farm associations in places such as the World
Bank, the United Nations, Yale University, Brussels, and Capitol
Hill.
Ms. Hunt has extensive environmental research, policy, education and
planning experience. Most recently, as a research fellow at
Environmental Defense, her work focused on social and environmental
safeguard policy reform at the International Finance Institutes.
Ms. Hunt’s agricultural roots sparked her involvement with the world
of biofuels when she initiated the use of biodiesel at her family
farm and winery, Hunt Country Vineyards, in its efforts to become a
more environmentally responsible business. Ms. Hunt is a co-founder
of “SmartFuel,” an organization dedicated to teaching children
principles of science and business through hands-on biodiesel
production as a cleaner-burning fuel for their school buses. In
addition she is a founding steering committee member of the
“BioEnergy Wiki”, an information sharing hub. She also serves on the
Board of Directors of the “Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance” as well
as the “Renew the Earth” organization.
Ms. Hunt has a BS in Environmental Science from Penn State and a
dual master’s degree in International Affairs and Natural Resource
Management from American University and the UN’s University for
Peace in Costa Rica.
Jack Huttner
Jack Huttner is vice president of biorefinery business development at Genencor, the enzyme division of Danisco A/S. His multifunction team is responsible for building a sustainable business in the emerging cellulosic biofuels sector.
Prior to his current role, Huttner had global responsibility for communications and external affairs at Genencor International, Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOR) an industrial biotechnology leader. Huttner helped shape Genencor’s leadership position in corporate citizenship, social responsibility and stakeholder engagement.
Huttner was instrumental in the formation of the industrial sections of both BIO in Washington, DC and EuropaBio in Brussels. He continues to hold leadership positions at both industry organizations. He has also worked directly with the OECD, environmental NGO’s, farm interests and other stakeholders to develop common positions in support of industrial sustainability and the biobased economy.
In 2001, Huttner was appointed by President Clinton to co-chair the Bioenergy Technical Advisory Committee formed by an Act of the U.S. Congress to oversee the federal government’s $300 million bioenergy R&D budget. In 2004, he was re-appointed by President Bush to a new three-year term on the committee.