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Ben Schlesinger
- President Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates, LLC
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Speaking at:
Thursday - June 28, 2018 -
Founding president of Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates (BSA), Ben has nearly four decades of experience in managing and carrying out engineering/economic analyses of complex energy issues. He focuses on natural gas commodity movements, contracting and pricing, and forecasting. Ben has advised over 600 clients in the U.S., Canada, and 27 other countries, including the top utility, private power, financial services, energy trading and producing, manufacturing firms and regulatory and educational entities. A former vice-president of the American Gas Association and member of the New York Mercantile Exchange’s (NYMEX) Natural Gas Advisory Committee, Ben has delivered expert testimony before the U.S. Congress and in 18 states and Ontario on the direction of the gas industry, gas contracting, purchase and sales prices, royalty valuations, market value, hedging and risk management, and related industry practices. Ben is a Senior Fellow and past president (2011) of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, and he teaches a graduate course in energy economics at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. He received A.B. and engineering degrees at Dartmouth College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Industrial Engineering (now the Department of Management Science and Engineering).