Washington Policy & Analysis is an international consulting firm specializing in energy, environment, trade, transportation, technology, and maritime security and intelligence issues. The firm provides strategic business intelligence, analysis, and advisory services to companies, trade associations, and governments worldwide.

Washington Policy & Analysis’ well-established network of relationships with the federal government, Congress, and the public and foreign policy communities provides clients with a special window into the policy-making process. Through a variety of mechanisms, Washington Policy & Analysis monitors, analyzes and reports on critical issues affecting the strategic environment for energy and technology companies.

The firm produces seminars and studies and uses WPA Global Energy, its global modeling system, to examine broad trends in national, regional, and global energy markets.

Washington Policy & Analysis has an accomplished staff of economists, lawyers, policy analysts and international trade specialists offering expertise in areas including domestic and foreign energy and environmental policies; U.S. technology and trade issues; global energy pricing and forecasting; nuclear power; security and intelligence issues; maritime intelligence services and natural gas and international oil markets. Our consultants have been providing clients with business intelligence and market and policy analysis for over a decade.

In addition to Washington Policy & Analysis’ consulting expertise, the firm offers unparalleled access to business conferencing and publishing know-how as a member of the Informa Group, a global company with over 50 offices worldwide, generating sales in more than 180 countries. Informa produces more than 1,500 publishing products and 3,500 conferences. The publishing products are sold to more than 80,000 subscribers and the conferences are attended by more than 150,000 delegates.

Principals

William F. Martin :: Chairman

William F. Martin is an energy economist who has served as Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy under President Reagan. He is also chairman of the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee and chairman of the Council on Foreign Relation’s Energy Security Group for the past ten years. In 2006, he was elected chairman of the Council of the University for Peace of the United Nations.

Martin was educated at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (BS, 1972) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM, 1974). His master’s thesis was the basis of an article he published in the Harvard Business Review (“Our Society in 1985: Business may not like it, March 1975”). Following graduation from MIT, he joined the MIT Energy Laboratory as Program Officer for the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies. During his four years on the professional research staff of MIT, he co-authored three books, Growth and Its Implications for the Future, (Roundtable Press, 1973), Energy Supply to the Year 2000 (MIT Press, 1977) and Professional Materials for Environmental Management Education (MIT Press, 1975).

Following MIT, Martin was responsible for energy statistics for developing countries at the International Energy Agency (OECD, Paris) and was part of a UN expert group that developed the methodology for reporting United Nations energy statistics. In 1977, he was promoted to special assistant to the Executive Director of IEA, Ulf Lantzke, and served in this capacity for three years during the time of the second oil shock.

Following his four years in Paris, Martin joined the Department of State as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State. In 1981, he was transferred to the National Security Council as Director of International Economic Affairs. From l983 to l985, he was appointed Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, responsible for the coordination of the President’s international and head of state meetings. Martin also served as the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council before being confirmed by the United States Senate as United States Deputy Secretary of Energy.

Martin joined the Board of the World Resources Institute in 1998 and served as WRI’s Chairman of the Development Committee. In 1997, he was a co-author of a Trilateral Commission study, Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context. In 1992, he served as the Executive Director of the Republican Platform Committee and co-authored the Committee’s volume, The Shared Vision, Uniting our family, our country, our world (Republican National Committee, 1992).

In 2004, Martin was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations to the Council of the University for Peace. He was elected Chairman of the Council of the University for Peace at its October, 2006 meeting. In 1998, Martin co-founded the Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Program at the Prague Security Studies Program that aims to educate Czech students in national security. He is also co-founder of the Club of Prague, a group of internationally prominent scientists, businessmen and scholars devoted to the finding technological solutions and new ways of thinking to meet energy challenges in a sustainable manner. The Club was formed under the auspices of former President Vaclav Havel, Prague Mayor Pavel Bem and Foreign Minister Alexander Vondra.

William Martin Papers

• Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context – Council on Foreign Relations Trilateral Commission Report, 1997
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• The Vision Shared - Republican Party Platform, 1992
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• Energy Security – A Report to the President – Department of Energy Report, 1987
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• Energy Supply to the Year 2000 - MIT Press, 1977
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• Our Society in 1985, Business May Not Like It - Harvard Business Review, 1975
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• Growth and Its Implications for the Future - Roundtable Press, 1973
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• Reflections on Ronald Reagan, 1986
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Konosuke Sugiura :: Vice President

Konosuke Sugiura received his degree from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University and subsequently joined the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). He has worked with the Labour Relations department and served as General Manager of the TEPCO Washington Office from 1989 to 1995. Since 1998, he has occupied the role of Vice President of Washington Policy and Analysis.

Senior Staff

Audrey Chriqui :: Chief Operating Officer

Audrey Chriqui has been with Washington Policy and Analysis since 2002. In addition to the management of the company’s corporate affairs, she is the principle organizational manager of the Santa Fe Seminar for the firm. Chriqui holds a degree from Concordia University in International Business.

Jonathan S. Gillman :: Senior Energy Analyst

Jonathan Gillman has been with Washington Policy & Analysis since 2007 and specializes in international relations, international and domestic political developments and energy affairs. In addition to monitoring and reporting on energy developments and relevant US domestic/foreign policy, he has recently participated in major projects such as the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (NEAC) report on nuclear power; Nuclear Energy: Policies and Technology for the 21st Century as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 2020 Project, which produced the report: Reinforcing the Global Nuclear Order for Peace and Prosperity: The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond.

Gillman is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied political science, international relations and business. His honors thesis was titled Analyzing the Consequences of a Rising China to the Current International System and to American Economic and Military Hegemony. Gillman has also resided in Shanghai, China, where he was employed by a British multinational and furthered his studies on emerging economies, international relations and foreign business practices.

Takashi Akazawa :: Analyst (Nuclear)

Takashi Akazawa has been with Washington Policy and Analysis since 2009 and specializes in nuclear energy policy, nuclear research and development and energy security. In addition, he has worked for the Kansai Electric Power Company in Japan and has wide range of experience in the nuclear fuel cycle. Prior to joining WPA, he worked for the reprocessing plant construction project as well as nuclear fuel management, including transportation, nuclear fuel allocation design in the core and safeguards. Akazawa holds a Masters in nuclear engineering from the Nagoya University of Japan. Hiroya Shimanuki.

Hiroya Shimanuki :: Analyst (Economics)

Hiroya Shimanuki has been with Washington Policy and Analysis since 2009 and specializes in energy law and policy, electric power systems, environmental policies and energy industry statistics in the U.S. and Japan. Shimanuki has nearly two decades of experience in progressively more responsible positions with the Japanese energy industry, including employment with The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan and several positions with the Tohoku Electric Power Company , a major Japanese utility company. From August 2004 through June 2007, Shimanuki was seconded to The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan as Manager of Siting and Environment Department. He researched and monitored nuclear energy policy in Japan. From July 2007 through June 2009, Shimanuki served as Chief Specialty Leader in the Plant Siting Department of Tohoku E Head Office in Japan. In this senior managerial position, he directs targeted research to study and develop methods to seek agreement among Japanese utility companies using nuclear power energy and the Japanese government on the location and citing of nuclear power plants. Shimanuki received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Doshisha University in March 1991 and completed The Management Education and Research Program for Japanese Executives at New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business in May 2001.