Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy where he directs the Center for Environmental Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), and was Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center from 2007 – 2015.

He was appointed by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in April 2010 as the first energy fellow of the Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) initiative. He began service as the Science Envoy for U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2016, but resigned over President Trump’s policies in August, 2017. He has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities, including time at the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Energy, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Dr. Kammen was educated in physics at Cornell (BA 1984) and Harvard (MA 1986; PhD 1988), and held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard. He was an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kammen has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999. The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Kammen helped found over 10 companies, including Enphase that went public in 2012, Renewable Funding (Renew Financial) a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) implementing company that went public in 2014. Kammen played a central role in developing the successful bid for the $500 million energy biosciences institute funded by BP.

During 2010-2011 Kammen served as the World Bank Group’s first Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. While there Kammen worked on the Kenya-Ethiopia “green corridor” transmission project, Morocco’s green transformation, the 10-year energy strategy for the World Bank, and on investing in household energy and gender equity. He was appointed to this newly-created position in October 2010, in which he provided strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts. The aim is to enhance the operational impact of the Bank’s renewable energy and energy efficiency activities while expanding the institution’s role as an enabler of global dialogue on moving energy development to a cleaner and more sustainable pathway. Kammen’s work at the World Bank included funding electrified personal and municipal vehicles in China, and the $1.24 billion transmission project linking renewable energy assets in Kenya and Ethiopia.

He has authored or co-authored 12 books, written more than 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, and has testified more than 40 times to U.S. state and federal congressional briefings, and has provided various governments with more than 50 technical reports. Dr. Kammen also served for many years on the Technical Review Board of the Global Environment Facility. He is the Specialty Chief Editor for Understanding Earth and Its Resources for Frontiers for Young Minds.

Kammen is a frequent contributor to or commentator in international news media, including Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. Kammen has appeared on ‘60 Minutes’ (twice), NOVA, Frontline, and hosted the six-part Discovery Channel series Ecopolis. Dr. Kammen is a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. In the US, has served on several National Academy of Sciences boards and panels.

Source: https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/kammen-daniel-m/ 

Dr. Zhou is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has led many international programs at LBNL on energy efficiency and greenhouse gas mitigation, often focused on China. Dr. Zhou is currently the Technical Program Manager for the Net Zero World Action Center, an initiative launched by the U.S. government to work with countries to implement their climate ambition pledges and accelerate transitions to net zero, resilient, and inclusive energy systems. In addition, Dr. Zhou is a Lead Author of the chapter on Mitigation and Development Pathways of the recently-released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report on Mitigation of Climate Change. Dr. Zhou is a co-chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of California-China Climate Institute and a Senior Scholar at the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Zhou is one of the two U.S.-designated Advisory Board Members of the Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre under the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a Council member for Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum. Dr. Zhou served as the Deputy Director (2010-2012) and the Director (2012-2021) of the $100M presidential bilateral U.S.-China Clean Energy Center-Building Energy Efficiency (CERC-BEE) program. 

She also served as a Lead Author for the chapter on Mitigation and Development Pathways in the Near- to Mid-Term of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. She received the 2017 R&D100 Award for the BEST City tool, 2020 R&D100 Award for the BETTER tool,  and is the finalist for 2016 C3E Awards for mid-career women’s leadership and achievement. Dr. Zhou was also the Co-Chair of 2016 Buildings Summer Study of American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) .

As the U.S. Director of CERC-BEE, Dr. Zhou led the team involving many researchers from different national laboratories (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), universities (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Davis), and industry partners such as Dow Chemical, DuPont, BASF, Johnson Controls, and Schneider. Under her leadership of this complex, dynamic program, the team has had notable achievements in building energy efficiency and the construction industry and has earned awards for numerous technological breakthroughs and innovations. The team has produced 17 new products, 20 new copyrighted software tools, and 84 peer-reviewed publications to advance building energy performance. The team has been awarded R&D 100 Awards in 2013 and 2016, a 2016 Gold Edison Award, a 2018 Best of Design Award for Digital Fabrication, and a 2019 Keeling Curve Prize Honorable Mention. 

Dr. Zhou’s expertise includes integrated energy system and emission modeling, energy efficiency for end use sectors in buildings, appliances, industry and transport; and on microgrids/distributed energy resources as well as low carbon/smart city development. Prior to LBNL, she was an assistant professor in two universities in Japan for four years. She has more than 280 publications, including ones published in Nature Energy and Nature Communications.

Source: https://eta.lbl.gov/people/nan-zhou

Fabby Tumiwa is the Executive Director and an energy transition strategist. He was a founding member of IESR in 2006 and leading the institution since its establishment. 

For more than 20 years, Fabby Tumiwa has worked on a wide range of energy policies and regulations. He is an advocate for renewable energy. He advises Indonesian government agencies, businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multilateral development organizations on electricity regulation, renewable energy policy, energy efficiency policy, and climate change policy. From 2006 to 2017, he served as Indonesia’s delegate to climate change negotiations, as a member of the National Council on Climate Change Working Groups from 2009 to 2014, and as a member of the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) Steering Committee from 2015 to 2019.

Fabby Tumiwa was one of the founders of the Indonesia Solar Energy Association (ISEA) in 2016 and served as its Chairman in 2021. He was a member of the Indonesia Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Society’s executive committee on institutional cooperation. From 2011 to 2015, he served on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Steering Committee.

Fabby Tumiwa was a LEAD Fellow in 2007 and an Eisenhower Fellow in 2009. By 2021, Fabby is a member of GoJek Indonesia’s Sustainable Advisory Council, as well as an advisory board member of the Indonesia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP). In 2023, he was appointed to the High-Level Consultative Group (HLCG) of the Energy Transition Accelerator an initiative by the US State Department, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund.

Fabby studied Electronic Engineering at Satya Wacana Christian University. Afterwards, he studied Extractive Industries Governance at Central European University and Energy and Climate Policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. 

Source: https://iesr.or.id/en/fabby-tumiwa 

Dr. Sri Sritharan joined the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) at Iowa State University as an Assistant Professor in December 1999. He became an Associate Professor in 2005 and Full Professor in 2010. He served as the Director of Graduate Education (DOGE) and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Affairs for the CCEE department from 2007 to 2012, and the faculty Lead for the Wind Energy Initiative of the College of Engineering from 2011. He became the Grace Miller Wilson and T. A. Wilson Endowed Engineering Professor in 2008. In August 2016, he was appointed as the Interim Assistant Dean and Wilkinson Chair Professor in the College of Engineering.

Dr. Sritharan earned his BSc degree with First class Honors in civil engineering from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and MS degree with Distinction from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Prior to pursuing his PhD at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), he worked as a Scientist in the Engineering Seismology section of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) in New Zealand for more than four years. His work at GNS focused in the areas of microzonation, attenuation of ground motions and understanding the behavior of instrumented structures subjected to earthquake loading. He received his PhD in Structural Engineering in 1998 under the guidance of Professor M. J. Nigel Priestley. Prior to joining Iowa State University, he served as an Assistant Project Scientist at UCSD and worked primarily on the PREcast Seismic Structural Systems (PRESSS) program.

His research interests include Earthquake-resistant design and analysis of structures, precast/prestressed structural systems, soil-foundation structure interaction (SFSI), Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) and special topics in Wind Engineering and Wind Energy Systems. His research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Transportation Research Board, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation in Alaska, California, and Iowa, Iowa Energy Center, non-profit institutions, and private industry. 

Source: https://sri.cce.iastate.edu/