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

Notebook: Friends Who Share Friends Are the Nicest People

Llewellyn King

I treasure the friends who share their friends. One of those friends, Virginia “Ginny” Hamill, has died. I met Ginny at The Washington Post in 1969, and we became forever-friends. Ginny had an admirable ascent from a teleprinter operator to an editor in The Washington Post/Los Angeles Times News Service. She was promoted again to […]

Game-Changing Wind Turbines Harvest Underused Resource Close To The Ground

Llewellyn King

Jimmy Dean, the country musician, actor and entrepreneur, famously said: “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” A new wind turbine from a California startup, Wind Harvest, takes Dean’s maxim to heart and applies it to wind power generation. It goes after untapped, […]

Farewell to the U.S. as the World’s Top Science Nation

Llewellyn King

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: “Passion.” It is passion that keeps scientists going, dead end after dead end, until there is a breakthrough. It is passion that keeps them at the […]

Europe Knows Russia and Is Deeply Afraid

Llewellyn King

Europe is naked and afraid. That was the message at a recent meeting of the U.K. Section of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ), at which I was an invited speaker. It preceded a stark warning just over a week later from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, also speaking in London, who said the danger […]