Comment on the State of the Union Address and EnergyProductivity from Leaders of the Energy Security, Innovation &Sustainability Initiative of the Council onCompetitiveness.
WASHINGTON -- Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (bio & pic) and Deborah Wince-Smith, president of the Council on Competitiveness and NASDAQ board member (bio & pic), are available to discuss energy, the economy, and global competitiveness in conjunction with the President's State of the Union address, and in the midst of the Presidential primary and debate season. Below are a few topics that they would include in the State of the Union address, if they were advising the President's speechwriters.
Dr. Jackson is co-chair -- along with James W. Owens, Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar, and D. Michael Langford, National President of the Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO -- of a major initiative -- the Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability Initiative of the Council on Competitiveness -- which is convening leaders in business, academe, and labor to craft an agenda to enhance U.S. competitiveness and global energy security. She will be co-chairing a meeting of this Initiative Monday in Washington, D.C., with some 25 other CEOs involved in the initiative, and interviews with Dr. Jackson and Ms. Wince-Smith may be scheduled in person or by telephone.
To arrange interviews, please contact Patricia Charles at (440) 506-9564 or patricia@kelleycampaigns.com. For more information, see www.compete.org/esis.
Positioning the U.S. for Economic Prosperity through Energy Productivity
Energy security presents extraordinary economic challenges, but also offers extraordinary economic opportunities that the United States must position itself to capitalize on. Other nations have committed to ambitious energy policies, innovation investments and energy use targets. The U.S. is a global laggard in energy productivity - a measurement of the output and quality of goods and services created per unit of energy - a trend that needs to be reversed if we are to maintain our economic competitiveness. Under the auspices of the Council on Competitiveness, a coalition of business, university and labor leaders have joined together to address U.S. energy security and competitiveness by developing an energy roadmap focusing on (1) economic gains through innovation, (2) economic gains through greater energy efficiencies, and (3) economic gains through workforce development.
Investing in Energy Innovation -- Reversing the Decline in R&D
