Roger Sant
 Roger Sant       (billionaire, businessman) | |
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| Born | 24 May, 1931 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Brigham Young University, Harvard Business School |
| Religion | Mormon |
| Spouse | Victoria Sant |
| Founder of | AES Corporation |
| Member of | The Giving Pledge |
| Interests | • global warming • carbon pricing |
Billionaire businessman international power company magnate and proponent of carbon tax
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Roger W. Sant is co-founder of the AES Corporation, one of the world's biggest generators and distributors of electrical power. He was also board member and chair of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S.[1] He attended the 2006 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the subjects was Energy: What Are the Issues.
In 2014, he was a proponent of a carbon tax:
My point is we need some market incentives we need a price on carbon we got to make it so that it's not free to emit carbon. We've got to make it so it's attractive for people to invent ways of using things that don't require carbon emissions. I want a price on carbon, I think a carbon tax may be the most efficient way to go about it and certainly with a tax you could make it neutral so that if we collect funds from attacks we could reduce something like a payroll tax so that it would just be neutral in terms of government revenues, but the important thing is we've got to make it so it's not free to pollute anymore[2]
Education
Sant received a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1960[3][4]
Sant was raised a Mormon, but left the church in his 30s.[5]
Career
Sant was Assistant Administrator for Energy Conservation and the Environment at the Federal Energy Administrationfrom 1974 to 1976[3][6]
He was also the Director of the Energy Productivity Center, an energy research organization affiliated with the Mellon Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, and a lecturer in Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[3]
He started AES in 1981.[3] According to the official narrative, "Sant and his partner initially raised $1.1 million with the help of family and friends, which was enough to build a $275 million power plant in Houston, Texas, in 1983. That facility brought the company the recognition it needed, and by 1988, AES was the largest Independent Power Producer in the United States."[5]
By the 2000s, AEG started running wind power stations, both onshore and offshore, and other "renewable" energy plants[7].
He is the founder of the Summit Foundation, which among other things focuses on reducing the incidence teen pregnancy in the District of Columbia (which is 50% Afro-American). He was on the board of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., which he previously chaired (1994-2000) and later co-chaired (2009-2011).[3]
He is a member of the boards of the National Symphony Orchestra, the PBS Foundation, and the World Resources Institute. Sant is a member of the advisory boards of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Stanford University's Natural Capital Project, and National Geographic's Pristine Seas initiative. He was a member of the board of directors of Marriott International from 1994 to 2006.[8]
In 2020, he gave $200,000 to UC Davis for "Climate Research".[9]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2006 | 8 June 2006 | 11 June 2006 | Canada Ottawa | 54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests |
References
- ↑ https://sltrib.com/religion/2021/08/12/latest-mormon-land
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVaZFYzNg44
- ↑ a b c d e https://cbey.yale.edu/our-community/roger-sant
- ↑ https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=2783
- ↑ a b https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=2783
- ↑ https://hbr.org/1999/01/organizing-for-empowerment-an-interview-with-aess-roger-sant-and-dennis-bakke
- ↑ https://www.aegps.com/en/energy-transition/wind-farms/
- ↑ https://www.worldwildlife.org/leaders/roger-w-sant
- ↑ UC Davis’ climate work with a gift to Project Carbon, which is developing new, high-tech ways to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and reduce greenhouse gases.
