Water Energy Committee

Dr. Truelove leads the Water-Energy Initiative at Stanford University Wood’s Institute for the Environment Water in the West Program. Prior to joining Stanford University, Dr. Truelove was the Senior Water Policy Analyst in the Division of Policy and Planning of the California Public Utilities Commission. She was responsible for building the CPUC’s Water Policy Program across the arenas of water conservation and water use efficiency; the water-energy nexus; water and climate change. She also serves on the State’s Climate Action Team Water and Energy Team, among other initiatives addressing water use efficiency, the economic analysis of water recycling, and regional water resource planning.

Jack Simes is the Planning Officer for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Southern California Area Office, located in Temecula, California. The Southern California Area Office has responsibility for water and related resources planning, conservation programs, Native American Affairs, and environmental work in nine Southern California counties. Jack has been employed by the Federal civil service system for the past twenty eight years. He has been with the Bureau of Reclamation since June 2000 and prior to that Jack worked for U.S. Army as a civilian with assignments in Arizona and Germany; and before that with the Marriott Hotels outside Baltimore. Jack completed undergraduate work in two disciplines at the University of Maryland, College Park. While there, he served as Co-Captain of the Fencing Team. Since then, he completed two graduate degrees, one from the University of Baltimore and another from Troy State University. Jack is also a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army Management Staff College. He is married to the former Karen Campbell of Pensacola, Florida; and they have a son, Brandon, who is a Civil Engineering major at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

During his 29 years with DWR, Mr. Guivetchi has worked on numerous projects with the Central District, the Bay-Delta Office, the Division of Environmental Services, and the Division of Planning and Local Assistance. In his current assignment, he managed the DWR staff work and the public comment process for the California Water Plan, Update 2005. He is also working on the 2009 update to the water plan, the Delta Vision initiative to develop a vision and strategic plan for sustainable management of the Delta and Suisun, and the FloodSafe initiative to develop a sustainable flood management system and reduce flood risk.

Lorraine White is an environmental scientist, resource management specialist and program manager with more than 20 years of experience in the energy and water resources fields.  Prior to joining GEI Consultants, Ms. White served 20 years with the California Energy Commission (CEC) where she was the expert on the relationship between the water and energy sectors, and represented the CEC as a member of DWR’s 2009 State Water Plan Update Steering Committee, and the Water-Energy Subgroup to the Governor’s Climate Action Team. Among her many achievements isthe development of the CEC's Integrated Energy Policy Report which is the state’s primary energy policy document.  Ms. White also held positions as a water resource analyst and project manager in the CEC's power plant siting regulatory program, energy policy advisor to former Chairman Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, and a legislative analyst for California Assemblywoman Marguerite Archie-Hudson and Assemblyman Phil Isenberg. Ms. White holds a BS in Biochemistry from University of California at Davis and was a California Assembly Fellow.

Meena Westford is Water Policy Manager for San Diego County Water Authority.  Prior to working for the Authority, Ms. Westford worked for the Bureau of Reclamation for 16 years. She is experienced in managing regional, state, and local planning projects that involve potable and recycled water use, storm water augmentation, conjunctive use management, and watershed restoration planning. She specializes in integrated regional management planning, water use efficiency implementation, and drought management planning. Ms. Westford was a participant in the California Department of Water Resource’s Recycled Water Task Force and the Governor’s Landscape Task Force. In 2007, she was selected to participate in the Reclamation's Leadership Development Program. Ms. Westford is also temporarily serving as assistant regional director for Reclamation’s Upper Colorado Region.

Dr. Robert C. Wilkinson, Director of the Water Policy Program at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, focuses on water, climate change, and environmental policy issues.  Dr. Wilkinson advises the California Energy Commission, US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the US EPA, and other state and federal agencies on water and climate research.  Recently, he coordinated the climate impacts assessment of the California Region for the US Global Change Research Program and the White House Office of Science and Technology.  Dr. Wilkinson also served on the public advisory committee for California's 2005 State Water Plan and the Governor's Task Force on Desalination.