Robert Blohm, an experienced investment banker and economist, is a Principal, an advisor to the Energy & Resources Team at the Vine Group Inc since 2006. Mr. Blohm has advised the Chinese energy resources industry and government on infrastructure and market-pricing policy and a foreign investment bank on energy resources projects. Mr. Blohm is the first foreign advisor to China's energy resource industry's International Petroleum Economics monthly and has taught energy economics at North China Electric Power University. For two decades Mr. Blohm advised the US, Canadian and Japanese corporations and governments on raising capital and listing shares in international markets and on market policy, structure, and operation. He arranged the first exchange of personnel between Japan's Ministry of Economy, Technology and Industry (METI) and the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) through his principal Japanese collaborator, Minister Nobuo Tanaka, who has since become Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. Mr. Blohm has served on taskforces of the North American Energy Standards Board and the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC). Prior to involvement in energy resources he coined the term "the internet economy" and was the first to publicly estimate its size in an opinion article by that title in The Wall Street Journal over a decade ago. Mr. Blohm has written or been quoted in more than a hundred articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Fortune Magazine, Japan's Asahi Shimbun, and Canada's Globe and Mail and National Post., and has appeared on CNBC and National Public Radio. He has recently contributed several opinion articles in China's People's Daily and the China Daily supporting China's 11th 5-year plan, stable Renminbi economic policy, and energy-resources marketization trend. Those articles have been republished by China's Economic Daily, Petroleum Daily, and Electric Power News, the Xinhua news agency, CNPC-PetroChina, the State Grid Corporation of China, China's Ministry of Commerce, State Economic and Trade Commission, and State Council Information Office, the China Electric Engineering Society, the China Power Engineering Society, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Renmin University's China Center for Civil Law. He holds a post-graduate degree in economics from Columbia University, and an MBA in international finance and a BA in philosophy & mathematics from McGill University.