Our Board

Jan-Pieter (JP) Oosterom is a board level advisor for energy companies on corporate transformations. He has 18 years of experience at Royal Dutch Shell plc in executive roles across its businesses in Europe, Asia and North America. Most recently as co-head of Downstream transformation, driving thousands of structural efficiency improvement tactics from across Shell’s $300bln Downstream business to implementation. JP is driven by finding ways to sustainably transform large corporations a lot faster and also enhancing investment decision making to better navigate the energy transition.

JP has extensive experience in corporate transformations and corporate investment decision making through roles as finance director on executive leadership teams, transformation leader, head of planning and reporting and as senior manager Mergers & Acquisitions. He is a Fellow with CPA Australia and holds an MSc in Accounting & Finance, studying at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the London School of Economics.

Dr. Carey W King performs interdisciplinary research related to how energy systems interact within the economy and environment as well as how our policy and social systems can make decisions and tradeoffs among these often competing factors. The past performance of our energy systems is no guarantee of future returns, yet we must understand the development of past energy systems. Carey’s research goals center on rigorous interpretations of the past to determine the most probable future energy pathways.

Carey is a Research Scientist at The University of Texas at Austin and Assistant Director at the Energy Institute. He also has appointments with the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy within the Jackson School of Geosciences and the McCombs School of Business. He has both a B.S. with high honors and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published technical articles in the academic journals Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Geoscience, Energy Policy, Sustainability, and Ecology and Society. He has also written commentary for American Scientist and Earth magazines as well as major newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, and Austin American-Statesman. Dr. King has several patents as former Director for Scientific Research of Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc.

Charles Hall received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina from the great systems ecologist Howard Odum. He has been a research scientist at Brookhaven and Oak Ridge National Laboratories and at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and professor at Cornell University, University of Montana, and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is the author of 14 books and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, many in our “best” journals. In his mid-career, he turned his main interests from systems analysis and modeling of the energetics of natural ecosystems to increasingly, human-dominated “economic” systems. He is especially well known within the scientific community for initiating and developing (with colleagues) the concepts of EROI (Energy Return on Investment) and BioPhysical Economics. He is the recipient of many academic awards including the Hubbert Award from the American Society for the Study of Peak Oil and the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Society of BioPhysical Economics.

Patrick is the lead portfolio manager for the US Opportunistic Equity strategies and head of the Small Mid Cap Equity Research team at Newton Investment Management.

Most recently, Patrick was a portfolio manager at Wellington where he co-managed the firm’s global all-cap impact investing strategy, which paired top-down thematic research with bottom-up stock selection and focused on positive social and environmental impact. Prior to Wellington, Patrick worked as an equity analyst with Alydar Capital, CR Intrinsic Investors and Schroders. He also spent four years with The Boston Company, a predecessor firm of Mellon, on the Opportunistic Value team.

Patrick earned an MBA from Babson College – Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College. He holds the CFA® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Boston. He also holds the Chartered Market Technician designation and is a member of the CMT Association.

Linda Guild is CEO of The Guild Associates, Inc., an association management company that handles the day to day activities of the Institute.

Stephen Balogh, Ph.D., is a data scientist, modeler, and environmental scientist with 15 years of experience in academia, government research, and the private sector. His two dozen academic publications have been cited over 6,000 times in peer-reviewed literature. As co-founder of HedgeRow Analysis, he provides management consulting services and energy analysis for emerging industries and for companies integral to the energy transition. Dr. Balogh's expertise includes energy modeling, spatial analysis, and material and energy flow assessment. He has experience managing and coordinating interdisciplinary teams and facilitating stakeholder engagement. Dr. Balogh has successfully applied his data analytics and modeling expertise to address complex sustainability challenges in energy transitions, as well as urban systems, and agriculture. He has developed and led BPEI’s research on Energy Saved on Investment (ESOI) since 2021.

Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security at University College London.

Specialist in complex systems modeling in economics, especially of Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis. Publications on nonequilibrium macroeconomics, environmental economics, the role of energy in production, critiques of Neoclassical and Marxian economics, monetary dynamics, empirical data on causes of financial crises, and economic methodology.

Crowdfunded via Patreon.

Author of Debunking Economics and Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?

Developer of the Open Source system dynamics program Minsky.

Winner of the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review for being the economist “who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future.”

Previously Professor of Economics at Kingston University London UK (2014-2018) and University of Western Sydney, Australia (2007-2013).

Jonathan (Jed) Dorsheimer is a founding member of BPEI. His focus on systems analysis, combined with applying the Laws of Natural Science has resulted in a truly differentiated and often contrarian view of value creation on Wall Street. This unique approach has led to identification of several secular trends including smartphones and LEDs. Jed is driven by the application of science to decipher between what is sustainable investing strategies and just “green washing,” as a way to improve resource allocation. Jed has advised the United States Department of Energy, under the 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama, and held Executive Leadership roles in at Acuity Brands, a fortune 500 Company.