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Panel 3 Speaker Karen Harbert is President and Chief Executive Officer at the Institute for 21st Century Energy, US Chamber of Commerce, in Washington, DC back to previous page |
| Degree in International Policy Studies and Political Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas | |
| Past Positions | |
| Regional Director for the Latin American and Caribbean programmes at the International Republican Institute | |
| Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for management at the Organization of American States | |
| Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) | |
| 2004 - 2008 | Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the US Department of Energy (DOE), Member of the DOE’s Executive Board and Credit Review Board |
| Vice-Chairwoman of the International Energy Agency | |
| 2008 | Executive Vice-President and Managing Director of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy |
| Present Position | |
| 2009 – | President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for 21st Century Energy, US Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC |
