MAEVF 2009 Keynote Speaker
Matt Rogers
Senior Advisor to the Secretary
U.S. Department of Energy
Matt Rogers is the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy for the Recovery Act.
Previously, Rogers was a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco Office. Over his time with McKinsey he led their American Petroleum Practice and their North American Electric Power and Natural Gas practice, and helped establish their Clean Technology practice. He spent more than 20 years consulting with leading oil companies and utilities globally.
Rogers played a leading role in developing McKinsey’s perspectives on global energy supply and demand and greenhouse gas abatement economics. He served the Obama Presidential Transition Team in a special effort to develop opportunities to reduce the cost and increase renewables content in federal energy procurement.
Rogers graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. After graduation he joined Credit Suisse First Boston as an energy investment banking analyst. He earned an MBA from Yale University’s School of Management. He is married to the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who serves as a California Superior Court Judge on the Alameda County bench. They have three children, ages 14, 11, and 8.