Annie Petsonk
International Counsel, Climate and Air Program
Environmental Defense Fund

Annie Petsonk coordinates Environmental Defense's advocacy efforts on international environmental law, international agreements and institutions. She has served in the U.S. Justice Department and the Executive Office of the President during the administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton; the United Nations Environment Program; and private practice. An adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School, she has published extensively on issues at the intersection of climate change and trade policy. Ms. Petsonk is a graduate of the Colorado College and Harvard Law School.

Kjell Olav Kristiansen
Director, Advisory Services
Point Carbon

Kjell Olav Kristiansen is Director of Advisory Services at Point Carbon North America. He has three decades of energy and environmental market experience having initially served 19 years for the Norwegian government in senior positions both with oil and natural gas exploration and production as well as with electricity market restructuring and environmental policies. In private sector he has been partner and executive vice president of a power trading company, co-owner and chairman of a carbon consulting company as well as running his own energy consulting company focusing on European energy and environmental policy and markets. Kjell has served eight years as Vice Chairman on the Board of Directors of the Norwegian Transmission System Operator.

He started working with Point Carbon in 2005 and transferred to the Washington DC office in 2007. He has previously lived and worked in the US as energy counselor at the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC. Kjell speaks frequently at energy and carbon trading conferences and he has testified to the United States Senate and the European Union on design of cap-and-trade programs.