List of Groups and Topics

Here is a partial list of academic, corporate and governmental entities Llewellyn King has addressed, and some of the topics of his speeches follow:

Academia

Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale University
Stanford University
George Washington University
American University
University of Florida
Stevens Institute of Technology
Wakefield School

Corporations

Bechtel
Babcock & Wilcox
Combustion Engineering
General Electric
General Atomics
General Dynamics
Westinghouse
Planmetrics
Bethlehem Steel
United Technologies
StatoilHydro, Oslo, Norway
Carolina Power & Light
Pacific Gas & Electric
Salt River Project
Lehman Brothers
Salomon Brothers
New York Society of Security Analysts
UBS
Drexel Burnham Lambert
CoBank
American Machine and Foundry
Tenaska

Government

U.S. Senate (testimony)
U.S. House (testimony)
U.S. Department of Energy, General Counsel’s Office
National Laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Los Alamos, Idaho, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest
Bonneville Power Administration
Texas State Legislature
Southern Governors Association
Australian Parliament
Singapore Energy Department

Trade Associations

National Mining Association
Edison Electric Institute
American Gas Association
Nuclear Energy Institute
American Petroleum Institute
American Public Power Association
Large Public Power Council
American Gas Association
Natural Gas Supply Association
National Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives
American Council of Independent Laboratories
Association of European Journalists
American Newspaper Guild
Specialized Information Publishers Association
American Bakers Association
Rotary Club
Houston Chamber of Commerce

U.S. And World Conferences

NATO, Brussels, Belgium
The Business Council, New York, NY
World Energy Council: Tokyo and London
Detwiler Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
The Uranium Institute, London
Coaltrans, Hamburg, Germany
The Atlantic Council, Washington, DC
Alan Fried Associates, Washington, DC
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
Jacques Cousteau Society, Hampton, VA
Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO and Wye River, MD
Keystone Center, Keystone, CO

Topics

Man and science
Individual fulfillment, adventure therapy
Global energy outlook, domestic energy outlook
Commodities in crisis
Understanding media
The impact of technology on people
Moving people: The transportation challenge

Immigration: Hard Heads and Bleeding Hearts Don’t Align

Llewellyn King

The American head and heart aren’t in alignment on immigration. They are savagely apart. The head argues that all those people amassing on the U.S.-Mexico border, or living in camps across the English Channel, or trying to get into Turkey from Syria should be sent home. The heart argues that people anywhere denied a reasonable […]

Shutting Out Natural Gas Can Destabilize the Electric Grid

Llewellyn King

It has been an annus horribilis for the nation’s electric utility companies. Deadly storms and wildfires have left hundreds of thousands — and for short periods millions — of electricity customers without power, sometimes for days and weeks. These destructive weather events have come at a time when utilities are being squeezed from all directions: […]

British Electricity Hit Hard by Wind Failure and Gas Shortage

Llewellyn King

If you are thinking of going to Europe this winter, you might want to pack your long undies. A sweater or two as well. Europe is facing its largest energy crisis in decades. Some countries will simply have no gas for heating and electricity production. Others won’t be able to pay for the gas which […]

Down with the Boss, Up with the Gig Worker!

Llewellyn King

Napoleon didn’t deride the English as “a nation of shopkeepers,” although that phrase is commonly attributed to him. In fact, it was Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, a French revolutionary who used it when attacking the achievements of British Prime Minister William Pitt, the Younger. I think Napoleon was too smart not to have realized that […]