Expertise

Geographic Areas
South Asia

Issues
climate change | energy and security | energy issues | energy technologies | environmental issues | foreign aid and global poverty | governance | natural resources | nuclear power | U.S. energy policy

Background and Education
Former professor and/or researcher at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Brookhaven National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts; was special adviser on energy and climate and vice president of research and evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation and was vice president for science and research at the World Resources Institute; served in the U.S. Department of Energy as deputy assistant secretary for International Energy Policy, Trade and Investment and senior adviser to the secretary of Energy; 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 lead delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Energy Working Group; as senior energy and science adviser to USAID, worked in Latin America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on energy policies to ensure equity, environmental sustainability, energy technology innovation and infrastructure investment; has testified before Congress on energy and environmental issues; Ph.D., applied physics, Harvard University

Publications
SPEED: Smart Power for Environmentally-Sound Economic Development (2011); Energy and Environmental Policy of Australia, co-author (2001); Energy and Environmental Policy of Japan, co-author (1999); Energy Strategies: Toward a Solar Future, co-author (1980); "Oil in the 21st Century: Responding to New Drivers of Change" in The Oil Era: Emerging Challenges (2011); "Smart Cities—Smart Financing" in The Green Leadership Handbook (2011); "Energizing the Base of the Pyramid" in Business Solutions for the Global Poor (2007); "Smart Globalization" in Millennium Ecosystems Assessment: Implications for Policy and Governance (2006); "Electricity: Technological Opportunities and Management Challenges" in Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses (1992); "Power Sector Innovation in the Indian Power Sector" in Innovation in the Indian Power Sector: Technologies and Approaches (1991); "Power Sector Innovation in Developing Countries" in Annual Review of Energy (1990); more than 100 technical publications and book chapters on the global energy and climate challenge, focusing on technology, policy and security solutions