James Slutz

James Slutz served at the U.S. Department of Energy, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas and later as Assistant Secretary of Energy leading the Office of Fossil Energy and overseeing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He previously worked as Indiana's Oil and Gas Director, regulating the state's upstream oil and gas industry, and later became President and Managing Director of Global Energy Strategies LLC. He holds an MBA from Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.

He was a keynote speaker at Mare Forum USA 2008 and spoke as a panellist at Mare Forum Houston 2002.