Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He works on energy and environmental science, policy and analysis, and has extensive field experience in Latin American, southeast Asia and China, and in Africa, which has been a focal point of his work for two decades.
Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).

Kammen is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.

Kammen is the Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center.

Kammen received his undergraduate (Cornell A., B. '84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. '86, Ph.D. '88) training is in physics After postdoctoral work at Caltech and Harvard, Kammen was professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1993 - 1998. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley.

The focus of Kammen's work is on the science and policy of clean, renewable energy systems, energy efficiency, the role of energy in national energy policy, international climate debates, and the use and impacts of energy sources and technologies on development, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Kammen has published five books, over 200 journal articles and 30 research reports. He has testified many times to the U. S. House and Senate, and to the legislatures in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, and Washington. He is an advisor to the UK and Swedish governments on energy and environment, and the Secretary General of the United Nations as well as UNEP and UNDP. He advises California Governor Schwarzenegger on energy issues, and works closely with Mary Nichols of the California Air Resources Board. Kammen's team helped to develop the Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Daniel Kammen is a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

In 1998 was elected a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. In 2007, Kammen received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Commonwealth Club of California.
Kammen is a primary author and serves on the executive committee of the $500 million Energy Biosciences Institute funded by BP. The institute is a joint venture of the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dave Goldstein is a multitalented electric and hybrid vehicle expert with 30 years of diversified experience in both government and industry. In 1978, Dave initiated one of the first state and local EV demonstration programs in the nation for the Washington, D.C. Mayor's Energy Office in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy. In 1980, during the Iranian Oil Crisis, he co-founded the nonprofit Electric Vehicle Association of Washington, D.C. (EVA/DC), serving as President for the past 28 years. In 1984, Dave established Program Development Associates, an independent EV consulting firm supporting the electric utility industry, EV manufacturers, converters, advanced battery companies and private owners. In 1990, Dave co-founded the Electric Vehicle Industry Association (EVIA), serving as its Washington Representative.

Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Prof essor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. He served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His research focus is energy technology and policy, including a leadership role in MIT interdisciplinary technology and policy studies on the future of nuclear power, coal, nuclear fuel cycles, natural gas, and solar energy in a low-carbon world. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1997 until January 2001 and, from 1995 to 1997, as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. At DOE, he had oversight of the science and energy programs, led a comprehensive review of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, and served as the Secretary's special negotiator for Russian nuclear materials disposition programs. Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, and Michigan State University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation.

Professor Dale is University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. In 1996 he won the Charles D. Scott Award for contributions to the use of biotechnology to produce fuels, chemical and other industrial products from renewable plant resources. In 2007 he won the Sterling Hendricks award for contributions to the chemical science of agriculture. He is interested in the environmentally sustainable conversion of plant matter to industrial products- fuels, chemicals and materials- while still meeting human and animal needs for food and feed. He occupies a leadership role in the recently established DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC). The GLBRC will receive $135 million in Federal funding over 5 years to develop cellulosic ethanol and other bioenergy sources.

Dr. Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy. She joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she directed the energy efficiency and renewable energy program and led several national climate change mitigation studies. Her recent research includes an analysis of alternative clean technology deployment strategies, an assessment of the multi-agency R&D portfolio comprising the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, analysis of the geography of metropolitan carbon footprints, a review of industrial energy efficiency technologies and best practices, and development of a national climate change technology deployment strategy as required by the 2005 Energy Policy Act.

Dr. Hammer is the J. Carlton Ward Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been on the Cornell faculty since 1977. Hammer worked at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1969-1976, was a Visiting Associate Professor (part time) at the University of Maryland in 1973-1976, and was an Associate Professor at UCLA in 1977; in 1983-84, 1991 and 2004 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at Imperial College, London. He holds a patent on the x-pinch x-ray source for application to lithography in microelectronics manufacturing, and another for using the X pinch for imaging biological specimens. His research is supported by DOE and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque.

After several years in private law practice in Canada (awarded a Queen's Council designation), from 1988 to 1993 David was resident in New York, as Senior International Trade Counsel for the government of Alberta focusing on International trade and energy issues. Following an intense effort to achieve the passage of the Canada - US trade agreement, David focused on efforts to significantly increase the flow of natural gas from resource rich Alberta to the underserved US Northeast. Mr. Manning returned to Canada to be Deputy Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta, Canada, the largest energy producing region in North America. He held this post from 1993 to 1995, a critical period in the development of Alberta's Oil Sands these deposits are the largest and most strategic resource available to the US and now the focus of significant environmental issues and initiatives.

Mr. Manning then was selected to lead the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a national trade association representing all significant oil and gas producers nationally and internationally. CAPP moved early in climate change response, initiating the first voluntary action recognition program in Canada in the early 90's. Mr. Manning was a delegate to the Kyoto conference on climate change in that capacity, in 1997.

More recently, Mr. Manning has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer of KeySpan, New York State's largest power generator and one of the largest gas distributors in the U.S. In that capacity, he was central to a "system repowering" of the Ravenswood power station (New York's largest) with the addition of combined-cycle capacity. Following KeySpan's acquisition by National Grid, Mr. Manning joins as EVP a company which has already achieved a 37% reduction towards its Kyoto targets and has mandated an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050.

Mr. Manning remains active in the communities served by National Grid, including: Past Chair, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and sits on the Boards of the New York City Police Foundation, Audubon New York, Long Island Housing Partnership, Citizen Budget Commission, and the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Sarah L. White is a Senior Associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a national policy center at the University of Wisconsin dedicated to high-road economic development. Her work at COWS focuses on the intersection of labor and energy policy at state and federal levels, and she is a national expert on jobs and training in the emerging green economy. White came to COWS from Wisconsin's Department of Workforce Development, where she served as the Secretary's policy advisor for federal employment and training programs. Before that, she ran the Development Education Program of Interfaith Hunger Appeal in New York, working to integrate academic and NGO efforts addressing poverty, food security and sustainable development. A labor historian by training, White holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Wellesley College.

Andrew C. Kadak is a Professor of the Practice in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include advanced reactors, nuclear safety, waste management and nuclear space applications. He presently serves on the US Nuclear Waste Technology Review board overseeing the Department of Energy's nuclear waste program. Prior to joining MIT in 1998, he was president and CEO of Yankee Atomic Electricity Company, a nuclear utility and service company to New England's nuclear plants. He was President of the American Nuclear Society from 1999 to 2000. He has a Ph.D. and Master's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Melanie A. Kenderdine joined the MIT Energy Initiative as associate director for strategic planning in March 2007. Prior to joining MIT, she was vice president of the Gas Technology Institute for Washington operations, where she was involved in major initiatives to increase domestic natural gas supply, enhance energy efficiency and security and promote the research needs of the natural gas industry. From 1993 to 2001, Kenderdine served in several key posts at the U.S. Department of Energy, including director of the Office of Policy and senior advisor to the secretary. Kenderdine has testified before Congress on many occasions, has served on numerous energy task forces and is a frequent speaker at international energy conferences, including the World Petroleum Congress and IEA's International Energy Experts Conference in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and is an expert in renewable energy, solar energy, solar fuels and clean energy technology. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the Fresenius Award in 1990, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1991, the Orton Memorial Lecture award in 2003, the Princeton Environmental Award in 2003 and the Michael Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Electrochemistry in 2008. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy & Environmental Science.

Ryan Wiser is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He leads and conducts research in the planning, design, and evaluation of renewable energy policies, and on the costs, benefits, and market potential of renewable electricity sources. Dr. Wiser's recent analytic work has included studies on the economics of wind and solar power; the treatment of low-carbon supply options in utility resource planning; the impacts of higher penetrations of renewable energy on the electricity sector; the design of renewables portfolio standards; the risk mitigation value of renewable electricity; policy design for solar power; and customer surveys of willingness to pay for renewable energy. Through his work at Berkeley Lab, Dr. Wiser has become a well-known expert on the development and design of renewable energy policies. He regularly advises state and federal agencies on renewable energy matters; is an advisor to the Energy Foundation's China Sustainable Energy Program; is on the Corporate Advisory Board of Mineral Acquisition Partners; and serves on numerous other advisory boards. He has been a consultant to the California Energy Commission, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the International Energy Agency, the World Bank, the Energy Foundation, the Center for Resource Solutions, and several private companies. Dr. Wiser has published over 250 journal articles and research reports. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Lubell is Professor of Physics at CCNY and the Director of Public Affairs of the American Physical Society (APS). He was a member of the Yale faculty from 1971 to 1980 before moving to CCNY in 1980, where he served as Department Chair from 1999 to 2006. He has held fellowships from the U.S. AEC, the NSF and the Sloan Foundation and concurrent positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Texas-Austin, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Universität Bielefeld. He is a Fellow of the APS and the AAAS, and his biography appears in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. His publications comprise more than 250 articles and abstracts in journals and books covering subjects in high-energy, nuclear and AMO physics, as well as science policy. His research interests currently center on studies of quantum chaos, simple molecules and various areas of science policy. He has delivered more than 150 invited lectures, appeared on radio and TV in North America and Europe many times and served on numerous scientific advisory committees inside and outside government. He has been active in local, state and national politics for more than forty years and is frequently quoted on public policy issues.

B.S. Applied Mathematics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, M.S. Nuclear Engineering, MIT.

Guest lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Georgetown University, University of Maryland.

Licensed Professional Engineer, NY State.

Diplomat with the IAEA 1974-1979.

Published over 30 papers on nuclear safety, emergency planning, and energy policy, wrote op-ed pieces for the NY Times, served on editorial board of energy journal, gave testimony at the National Academy of Sciences.

Big Brother of the Year for the US and Canada, Presidential citation for service to youth.

Officer in US Army, with honorable discharge.