Daniel M. Kammen, Ph.D., 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.

After postdoctoral work at Caltech and Harvard, Kammen was professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University, before moving to Berkeley and founding the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL). His undergraduate (Cornell A., B. '84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. '86, Ph.D. '88) training is in physics.

Through RAEL (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~rael) Kammen works with faculty colleagues, several postdoctoral fellows, and roughly 20 doctoral students on a wide range of science, engineering, economics, and policy projects related to energy science, engineering and the environment. His 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 has published five books and more than 180 journal articles and 30 research reports. He serves on the board of The Utility Reform Network, the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and on the Technical Review Board of the Global Environment Facility. He is on the advisory board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and is a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Among his recent activities, he has conducted a series of research projects on economic and environmental impacts of a greatly expanded focus on clean energy policies for the United States. These research papers and reports formed the basis for a series of testimonies that Kammen presented before U. S. House of Representatives and Senate Committees. A central goal of this work is to examine the potential for 'deep cuts' in greenhouse gas emissions while strengthening the economy.

He has continued an analysis of the trends and impacts of energy research and development on energy technologies both in the U. S. and abroad, and he has worked with his students and colleagues in Kenya, Mexico, and Sri Lanka to examine the growth, opportunities, and the obstacles, in clean energy markets in developing nations.

He has worked with federal agencies to research and inform energy and environmental policy, and he has conducted a series of studies of the economics of hydrogen production for use in fuel-cell power plants and vehicles.

Kammen has worked with the print, radio, and TV media to bring awareness of energy issues to the public and to elected officials. He has recently appeared on public radio and TV and on techTV, CNN, ABC, CBS, and in a number of foreign media. He debated Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, about which Kammen says he "was more than a little skeptical."