Daniel Kammen
June 2004
Ames Research Center
Daniel Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley and a climate advisor to the Obama administration.[1] He holds a dual appointment at the Energy and Resources Group (part of the College of Natural Resources) and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is also a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for their report, Climate Change 2007, assessing man-made global warming.[2] Kammen was elected a permanent fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 1998 and, in 2007, received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Commonwealth Club of California.[2]
On September 9, 2010, Kammen was appointed chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency at the World Bank.[3]
In 2016, he was selected as a U.S. Science Envoy by the United States State Department.[4]
Early life and education
Originally from Ithaca, New York, Kammen is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen.[5] He got his bachelor's degree in physics at Cornell University and his master's degree and PhD in physics at Harvard University.[6]
See also
- Renewable energy commercialization
- Al Gore
- Hermann Scheer
- Benjamin K. Sovacool
- John A. "Skip" Laitner
- Amory Lovins
- Mark Z. Jacobson
- Tom Steyer
- Lee Schipper
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