Scott Hempling, Esq. is the Executive Director of NRRI. He provides legal and policy advice to public- and private-sector clients involved in regulated industries. His research emphases include mergers and acquisitions, the introduction of competition into formerly monopolistic markets, corporate restructuring, ratemaking, utility investments in nonutility businesses, and state-federal jurisdictional issues. Mr. Hempling received a B.A. cum laude in (1) economics and political science and (2) music from Yale University. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He has appeared numerous times before committees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives; and before state legislative committees in Arkansas, California, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia.

Scott H. Strauss is a partner and Jeffrey A. Schwarz is of counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP, which represents public-sector entities on energy, environmental, telecommunications, and transportation issues. Mssrs. Strauss and Schwarz have substantial experience in complex litigation before federal and state agencies concerning all aspects of utility ratemaking and electric utility industry restructuring. Mssrs. Strauss and Schwarz represented Supreme Court amici curiae, the American Public Power Association and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, in the Morgan Stanley and NRG cases. Their article, “The Mobile-Sierra Doctrine: A Return to its Statutory Roots,” was published in the May 2007 issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly. Mr. Schwarz is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. Mr. Strauss is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was named a "Super Lawyer" in the energy practice area for 2007, 2008 and 2009 by Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers magazine.

Lisa Fink is a senior staff attorney at the Maine Public Utilities Commission. For the last 10 years, her practice has been focused on FERC cases, at the administrative and appellate levels, relating to the wholesale electricity markets and transmission rate structures. She is also an active contributor to the stakeholder process for developing market rules and reliability procedures in the ISO New England RTO. In addition, she has served as a hearing examiner in cases relating to affiliated interests, certificate of need for transmission lines, and transmission owner participation in ISO-NE. She received a BA degree from Colby College and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law.

Carmen Gentile is a founding partner of Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, LLP and has practiced energy law for more than 30 years. He has litigated for and advised clients on a variety of matters including competition, industry restructuring, mergers, asset acquisitions, open access transmission, regional transmission organizations, interconnection agreements, power supply and transmission planning, market-based rates, stranded costs, contract disputes, nuclear plant decommissioning, fuel procurement, compliance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Standards of Conduct and affiliate restrictions compliance, reliability must-run agreements, exchange-based power purchases and sales and the prudence of nuclear power plant construction and operation. He has participated in antitrust litigation before the Federal District Courts, argued several appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals, and practices before FERC on a regular basis. Before founding BGM, Mr. Gentile was an associate and then a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in public utility and environmental law. He holds an A.B. in international relations from Harvard College (1961) and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1967). Mr. Gentile is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. He is a past president of the Federal Energy Bar Association and has served on that association’s board of directors, and as chairman of its Committees on Antitrust and Regulations. His publications include an article on the Mobile-Sierra doctrine, written in connection with his involvement in several contract litigations and published in The Energy Law Journal.