About Peter Fusaro

Peter C. Fusaro
Chairman & Founder, Global Change Associates
New York, New York
212-316-0223
peterfusaro @ global-change.com

Peter C. Fusaro is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron and is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental markets. He co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center in 2004. For over 3 decades Peter has been on the forefront of energy industry change and has created the terms "Green Trading", "Green Finance" and "Green Hedge Funds" which are now commonly used in the industry. Peter has been selected for Who's Who in America 2007-2011, Who's Who World for 2009-2011, and Who's Who in Science & Engineering 2011. He has lived on the leading edge of consulting in carbon and emissions trading and finance, clean energy technology, renewables and fossil fuels. Peter founded Global Change Associates in 1991 to focus on the interplay and convergence of energy and environmental financial markets.

Accomplishments: First competitive studies on green trading, environmental trading software, energy hedge funds, Enron and energy e-commerce. Throughout his long career, Peter has been a first mover.
Media: Noted international expert on oil, gas, electric power and environmental financial markets. He has appeared numerous times on CNBC, CNBC Europe, Bloomberg TV, Fox Business, NHK, New Delhi TV, Chinese Phoenix TV, Canadian TV and NPR as well as being cited by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, Time, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, Nikkei, and many trade publications including Platts, Energy Argus, and PIW.
Services: Advisory to financial services and clean energy technology companies.
Clients: Hedge funds, venture capital funds, investment banks, software companies, energy companies and law firms.
Experience: Peter has 36 years of experience in the international energy business, and has always been early starting with the US EPA to get the lead out of gasoline in 1976, co-writing an Environmental Impact Statement for LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) in 1978, helping set up the allocation procedures for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the mid 1970s, assisting in the creation of the first demand side management (energy efficiency) programs in the mid 1980s in New York, working on energy efficiency programs at the World Trade Center and NY/NJ Port Authority Facilities in 1992-93 as well as their greenhouse gas advisor in 2008, and consulting to Toyota's development team on the Prius in 1997-98. He has focused on climate change and global warming issues since 1990. He is the author of 16 books on energy and environmental financial markets. His latest book for Oxford University Press is entitled “Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation:New Investment Techniques”. Peter was head of energy consulting at ABB Financial Services where he was responsible for business strategy, due diligence and IT solutions. Former employers includes Petroleos de Venezuela, the US Department of Energy and the NYC Mayor's Energy & Telecommunications Office. He worked as consultant's consultant to Deloitte Touche Capital Markets group in New York in the mid 1990s as well as Monitor Group more recently. Peter was partner to cleantech venture capital firm, Energy and Environment Capital Partners LLC in 2002-2003.
Speaking: Peter is a frequent keynote speaker on energy and environment throughout the worldwide. If interested in his paid speaking services, please contact Carmen Cook, Vice President, Marketing at 212-222-3775 and carmen @ global-change.com
Advisory:

Today, Peter is either a Board member or Advisory Board member to 7 cleantech startups. Peter is on the Advisory Board of the ERB Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (www.erb.umich.edu). He was board member of the NYU Energy Forum for 12 Years as well as Council Member for the International Association for Energy Economics for 3 years and President of the New York Chapter for over 10 years. He is a member of Professional Risk Management Association (PRMIA), New York Academy of Sciences, and Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Peter is active with Carnegie-Mellon University's Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research. In the spring of 2005, he launched Forum on Energy and Environment which is focused on accelerating knowledge transfer on energy and environmental issues to students, academics, and the business community in New York City. Peter launched the Green Salon in the Fall of 2008 and the Global Change Foundation in May 2009.

Peter is CEO of Energy & Environmental Institute (web-based training courses), is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Energy & Water Institute of New York at the United Nations, a member of SJF Expert Network, and is a Fellow of the Governance & Accountability Institute.

Peter is a member of the board of Clean Air Technology International, and on the advisory boards of Belgrave Trust, Mission Markets, Geo Investors Fund, Applied PV, Tundra Fund, Cleantech Law Partners,CRD Analytics, and Atmos Air Solutions.
Education: MA, International Relations, Tufts University
BA, Carnegie-Mellon University
Selected for first Washington International Semester Program, American University
Books:

Peter is a contributor to:

And of the Financial Times and Global Change AssociatesReport:

  • Asia Pacific Energy Derivatives
  • Enron 2001: An Inside View (Special Consulting Report, July 2001)
Publications: Peter has written over 700 published articles appearing in Hedge Fund Review, Utilipoint's Issue Alert, Commodities Now, Power, Finance & Risk, Petroleum Economist, NYMEX Energy in the News, and Oil & Gas Financial Journal. Many of his recent articles can be downloaded for free from this website under Articles. Peter has also published 9 occasional papers for the University of Colorado's International Center for Energy & Economic Development including his latest entitled The New Green Business Model for Investment (April, 2009) download here.
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