A longtime Fairbanks resident and state leader, Rogers served for seven years as the UA system's finance vice president, four years in the Alaska State House and eight years as a member of the UA Board of Regents, with three of those years as chair.
A former UAF student, he attended Trinity College and Brown University before receiving his master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1996, Rogers formed Information Insights, an economic and public policy consulting firm, serving as principal consultant and chief financial officer.
Rogers has served as chair of the UArctic Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy Alaska Trustees and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference CEO board, as well as a member of numerous community and state organizations including the Foraker Group Governance Board, the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Fairbanks Downtown Rotary and several others.
Clay Koplin wears many hats -- CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative, former city mayor, outdoorsman, valued community member. Experiencing energy systems from a unique perspective, Koplin provides a vision for how other communities around the country can learn from Cordova's replicable energy successes.
Read Koplin's recent opinion article published by Anchorage Daily News providing his tangible vision of how Alaska can lead the US on renewable energy.
