Protecting Alberta’s ‘centre of gravity’: New energy regulator wants to restore trust – Financial Post
July 24, 2014
Jim Ellis, president and CEO of Alberta’s newly reformed energy regulator and a retired Canadian Army colonel, gets this question often: How can a former tank commander like him come out of war zones and segue into one of Alberta’s most senior energy jobs without missing a beat?
“I found the military and what I am doing right now to be very similar,” Mr. Ellis, who in his last major overseas assignment in 2004/2005 was the senior commander for Canada’s mission to Afghanistan, said in an interview in the glassy headquarters of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in downtown Calgary.
Both involve high stakes, high pressure and lots of emotion, and both are about interacting with politicians and the public, fighting issues on the ground and internationally, he said.
