Mark P. Mills Keynote Speaker

Mark P. Mills is a contributing editor at City Journal, executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, and a co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, an energy-focused investment fund. He is also a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Mills is the author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s (Encounter Books, 2021) and hosts the podcast The Last Optimist. His other books include Digital Cathedrals (2020) and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). He also coauthored The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005) with Peter Huber.

His writing has appeared in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, and RealClear. He has also made media appearances on CNN, Fox News, NBC, PBS, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2016, he was named “Energy Writer of the Year” by the American Energy Society. Earlier in his career, he worked as a technology advisor for Bank of America Securities and coauthored the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, a technology investment newsletter.

Mills has testified before Congress multiple times and has briefed state public service commissions, legislators, and federal agencies on energy and technology policy. He previously served in the White House Office of Science and Technology under President Ronald Reagan and later advised private-sector firms, the Department of Energy, and U.S. national laboratories on science and technology policy.

He began his career as an experimental physicist and development engineer, working at Bell Northern Research and at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center on technologies including microprocessors, fiber optics, and missile guidance systems, where he earned several patents. He holds a degree in physics from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.