Dan Kammen

Berkeley, CA, USA — World Bank - Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Daniel 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. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) at Berkeley and Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment.

Through RAEL, Dr. Kammen works with faculty and industry colleagues, fellows, and students on a wide range of energy science, engineering, economics and policy projects. Kammen’s work focuses 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 advises the United States and Swedish Agencies for International Development, the World Bank, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences and the President’s Committee on Science and Technology, and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Kammen has testified many times in front of the U. S. House and Senate, as well as the state legislatures of California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, and Washington. In 1998 he 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. He has published five books, over 200 journal articles and 30 research reports.