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

Labor Day — the Untrammeled Joy of a Three-Day Holiday

Llewellyn King

Labor Day is almost here and with it another blessed, three-day weekend. Three days without work! The best day, of course, is the middle one, when we can luxuriate in the time off without the knowledge that grips most of us on Sunday afternoons — that we must climb Monday’s escarpment. The fact is that […]

A Plea to Solve One Part of the Immigration Puzzle

Llewellyn King

The serenity prayer, often called the alcoholics’ prayer, states, “God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” These thoughts might well be applied to the contentious and, at times, grim business of immigration. You don’t have […]

Carbon Capture Gets a Starring Role in the Energy Future

Llewellyn King

In the ’70s and ’80s, black was gold. Coal was king. Coal in tandem with nuclear were to be the white knights of the United States, as we struggled with the Arab oil embargo, price-gouging by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and declining oil production at home. In 1977, the fledgling Department of Energy declared […]

Apparently, the Left Wants to Destroy Health Care to Save It

Llewellyn King

The Democrats on the left of the party, exemplified by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, are running away with the health care debate. The problem for those who, like myself, want to see health care extended and rationalized is that the real goals of reform have been abandoned for “universal health care” as an […]