Lunch Keynote Address

John W. Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation

John W. Rowe is the chairman and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation, a utility holding company headquartered in Chicago.  Exelon has the largest market capitalization in the electric utility industry.  Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and its generation affiliate operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the nation.  Rowe has led Exelon since its formation in 2000 through the merger of PECO Energy and the parent of Commonwealth Edison.  Rowe previously held chief executive officer positions at the New England Electric System and Central Maine Power Company, served as general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation, and was a partner in the law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale.  Rowe serves on the board and executive committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute and is the past chairman of NEI and the Edison Electric Institute. He is also co-chairman of the National Commission on Energy Policy, an industry and environmental organization dealing with climate change.  In both 2008 and 2009, Institutional Investor named Rowe the best electric utilities CEO in America.   Rowe holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif.