Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers, lawyer, CEO, and author. He was most recently CEO at Duke Energy and served as CEO for almost 25 years in the electric utility industry. Rogers did a series of mergers and acquisitions culminating in the creation of Duke Energy, the largest electric utility in the US. He also owned and/or operated assets in 17 countries in Africa, South Asia, Europe, and Central and Latin America. In the 1980s he operated one of the largest gas pipeline companies in the U.S. He has served on the boards of eight Fortune 500 companies. He currently is a senior partner at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and is a visiting professor of the practice at Duke University. He also serves on the boards of Cigna, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Invenergy, The Aspen Institute, Brookings Institution, The Nature Conservancy, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, among others. In 2015, he authored Lighting the World: Transforming Our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone. He is a co-founder of the Global Brightlight Foundation. In 2009, Newsweek named him one of “The 50 Most Powerful People in the World.”
Biography current as of February 20, 2018