Daniel M. 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. He is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) as well Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Kammen received his undergraduate (Cornell A., B. ’84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. ’86, Ph.D. ’88) training in physics.

Kammen has published five books, over 180 journal articles and 30 research reports. His students have moved into a wide range of leadership positions in the nonprofit, policy and academic arenas. 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. His research and paper topics include analyses of the energy, economic, environmental and human health consequences of ethanol production and use; clean energy policies for the United States; hydrogen production for use in fuel-cell power plants and vehicles; and biomass in Africa.

Kammen’s work has become central to work on R&D effectiveness by the U. S. Senate Energy Committee, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Academy of Sciences, the Third World Academy of Sciences, and the International Energy Agency, and has been widely cited by 60 Minutes, PBS Nova, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other outlets.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research Letters; currently serves on the board of The Utility Reform Network, the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Technical Review Board of the Global Environment Facility, the advisory board of the Union of Concerned Scientists; and is a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

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