David J. Jhirad
Professor and Director, Energy Resources and Environment Program
HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Professor in Environmental Policy Dr. David John Jhirad is a Professor and the Director of the Energy, Resources and Environment (ERE) Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He holds the HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Professorship in Environmental Policy
Dr. Jhirad was the Vice President of Research and Evaluation and the Special Adviser on Energy and Climate Change at the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Jhirad served as Vice President for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute, a highly regarded environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C.
During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Jhirad was the deputy assistant secretary for International Energy Policy, Trade and Investment and the senior adviser to the Secretary of Energy. He led U.S. bilateral relationships with all major energy producing and consuming nations, and represented the United States as vice chairman of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency in Paris and as the lead delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Working Group. As senior energy and science adviser to USAID, he worked in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to ensure energy equity, environmental sustainability, technology innovation and infrastructure investment.
Dr. Jhirad has been a professor and/or Senior Scientist at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Brookhaven National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. Co-author of three books, he has also written more than 100 technical publications on the multi-faceted nature of the global energy, climate and economic development challenge, focusing on technology, policy and security solutions.
Dr. Jhirad holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University, where he won the Bowdoin Prize for excellence in research, and a B.A. and M.A. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University.
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