Ms. Etkin has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry, starting as an internal management consultant at ENSERCH Corp., (now TXU). While at Lone Star Gas Company in Dallas, she participated in the American Gas Association's "loaned executive" program from 1983-1984. Her first work assignment after graduate school was in the Budget Office of the City of Austin, Texas. Ms. Etkin's energy policy experience includes representing Texas' electric, oil and natural gas interests in Washington during the mid-80's, to participating in the Clinton Administration's Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative and Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force as a contractor to the U. S. Department of Energy in the early 90's. From October 2000 to December 2001 she was the Director, Advocacy and Policy Programs for the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (CAEM), a think tank working for market-oriented solutions to energy problems.