Deborah Lynn Bleviss
Professor, ERE Program Deborah Lynn Bleviss is a Professor in, and formerly Acting Director of, the Energy, Resources and Environment Program and has served as a Professorial Lecturer at SAIS since 1993. She has worked in the energy and environmental field for more than 30 years. From 2002 through June 2009, she worked as an independent consultant in energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable urban transportation. She was also a partner (2003-2007) in the BBG Group, a small consulting firm focusing on sustainable transportation. Previously, Ms. Bleviss worked first as an advisor to (1996-1998) and then as program director (1998-2001) of the Inter-American Development Bank’s “Sustainable Markets for Sustainable Energy” (SMSE) program. Her responsibility was to develop and manage projects in sustainable urban transportation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the objective of catalyzing sustainable markets in these areas. Prior to her work at the IDB, she worked at the U.S. Department of Energy of the United States (1995-6) as an advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, developing international and domestic clean transportation and energy financing initiatives. She was also a founder and the first director of the International Institute for Energy Conservation, an internationally-recognized non-profit organization devoted to the expedited adoption of energy efficiency and sustainable urban transportation policies and technologies in developing countries and Central and Eastern Europe. During her nine-year tenure (1986-95) as director, she built the organization into one with 30 staff, a $2.5 million budget, and offices in Chile, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Ms. Bleviss is the author of numerous articles and papers. She was a lead author for the transportation mitigation chapter of the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (published in 1995) and the author of the book, The New Oil Crisis and Fuel Economy Technologies: Preparing the Light Transportation Industry for the 1990s (published in 1988). In addition to her work at SAIS, she has served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Trained as a physicist, she received her education from UCLA and Princeton University. | 
