The Next Generation Engineer

Moderator: John Volkman, AMD

John Volkmann is AMD’s first Corporate Marketing Fellow. His responsibilities include advancing and coordinating the consistent execution of the company’s leadership agenda; defining and driving expanded executive communications programs; and participating in the positioning of strategic activities and announcements.

Panelists: Allyson Peerman, Michael Webber, Melissa Lott

Allyson Peerman	Michael Webber	Melissa Lott

• Allyson Peerman, AMD
  Allyson Peerman is AMD’s Global Vice President for Public Affairs responsible for government affairs, community affairs, and corporate responsibility efforts worldwide. Ms. Peerman oversees the company’s opinion matters, issues management, charitable giving, external affiliations, educational efforts, and corporate responsibility leadership. She is also president of the AMD Foundation.


• Michael Webber, The University of Texas at Austin
  Michael Webber is the Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy in the Jackson School of Geosciences, Fellow of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he trains a new generation of energy leaders through research and education.


• Melissa Lott, The University of Texas at Austin
  Melissa Lott is a dual-degree graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Her work includes a unique pairing of engineering and public policy in the field of energy systems research. Ms. Lott’s includes the development of Texas Interactive Power Simulator (TIPS), an interactive online teaching tool that illustrates the economic and environmental tradeoffs of electricity generation methods. Ms. Lott has worked for YarCom Inc. for six years as an engineer and consultant in energy systems and systems design. She previously worked for the Department of Energy and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Energy & Climate Change Team for the Obama Administration. She is a graduate of the University of California at Davis receiving a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biological Systems Engineering.

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