Committee Members

Brian Heidecker, Chair: As founder and operator of the Drylander Ranch Ltd, Heidecker has extensive experience in the agriculture industry. He has also served on the board of several financial institutions, including Alberta Treasury Branch Financial and the Bank of Canada. Most recently, Heidecker was Chairman of the University of Alberta Board of Governors.

Dr. Roy Billinton: Billinton has provided consulting services to organizations around the world.  He has also authored or co-authored eight books on reliability evaluation and more than 775 papers on power system reliability evaluation, economic system operation and power system analysis.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Electrical Institute of Canada, the United Kingdom Safety and Reliability Society and the Royal Society of Canada.  He is also Chairman of the Canadian Electrical Association, Consultative Committee in Outage Statistics and a Professional Engineer in the Province of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Joseph Doucet: Doucet is an Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy and the President of the Canadian affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). In addition, he directs a specialized MBA program in natural resources and energy at the Alberta School of Business.

Henry Yip: Yip is a senior business executive with more than 30 years of broad business experience in Canada. He has advised governments on city planning, strategy development, technology commercialization, international business collaboration and grant applications approval. He is currently the President of C’andcee Development and Chair of the Transmission Facilities Costs Monitoring Committee.