Deborah Bleviss, B.S.
Associate Practitioner in Residence in the Energy, Resources and Environment Program

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Asia | Latin America

Issues
developing nations | energy issues | energy technologies | global climate change | sustainable development | U.S. energy policy

Background and Education
Independent consultant on energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable urban transportation; adviser to and later program director of the Inter-American Development Bank's Sustainable Markets for Sustainable Energy Program; adviser on international and issues to the assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy; founder and first director of the International Institute for Energy Conservation; lead author for the transportation mitigation chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Assessment Report, Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change; graduate studies at Princeton University; B.S., physics, University of California, Los Angeles

Foreign Languages
Spanish

Publications
The New Oil Crisis and Fuel Economy Technologies: Preparing the Light Transportation Industry for the 1990s (1988); "What Multilateral Banks (and Other Donors) Can Do to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study of Latin America and the Caribbean" in Driving Climate Change: Cutting Carbon From Transportation (2007); "The Developing World Wants More Energy Too" in SAISPHERE (2005); "Urban Transportation in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Example of Cuenca, Ecuador" in Industry and Energy (2000)