Gerald Harris, MBA Senior Consultant

Gerald Harris has worked with a wide range of organizations in both the corporate and non-profit sectors and is a recognized and published expert in the field of scenario planning. He has been a lead consultant in the energy industry leading scenario projects, including directing four international multi-client studies that produced global scenarios on the long-term development of the electric power industry. He has worked with individual energy companies to create focused scenarios for corporate plans and to support potential investment strategies. Gerald has led scenario projects for companies in the heavy equipment industry, oil and natural gas industry, engineering and construction industry, and information technology industry.

Outside of the corporate sector, Gerald has worked with non-governmental organizations in community development, regionalism, environmental policy, and education. He has led projects for major foundations, national environmental organizations, and public agencies. He helped these organizations by using the tools and techniques of scenario analysis and strategic planning to assist them in developing strategic plans to move the organization forward into new activities. Gerald is an accomplished facilitator and has extensive experience managing groups.

Gerald spent 13 years at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, northern California’s largest utility. As director of business planning for the engineering and construction division, he provided strategic and business planning services to a 4700-person business unit. He led a multi-disciplinary management team that produced PG&E’s first long-term scenarios, and a cross-company team charged with linking business planning goals to R&D objectives. He started at PG&E in the Corporate Finance Department where he specialized in project and asset based financing. Before joining PG&E, Gerald was a financial analyst in international project finance at Bechtel Corporation.

Gerald received his B.A. in economics from Morehouse College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA in finance and business economics from the University of Chicago. He has been active in community service and the non-profit sector as a board member or advisor with groups such as the United Way, Leadership San Francisco, WorldlinkTV, and Hospitality House, a social service agency serving the homeless. He is a member of a technical review panel that looks at new technologies for the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research program.

AlexSandra Leslie