David Lawrence recently served Shell Upstream Americas in Houston as executive vice president of exploration and commercial and head of Global Exploration for Royal Dutch Shell. Now, he is the chairman of Lawrence Energy Group, LLC. And Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Yale Climate and Energy Institute. Over the course of his career, David Lawrence has become highly knowledgeable about climate change, energy and energy conservation through experience in research, oil and gas development, wind energy, coal, uranium and LNG.