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Dan Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group where he serves as Chair, 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 and the co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. He is a former Science Envoy for the U.S Department of State and was chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency at the World Bank Group where his work  included funding electrified personal and municipal vehicles in China, and a “green corridor “ transmission project  linking renewable energy assets in Kenya and Ethiopia.

He is an author or co-author of 12 books and more than 300 peer-reviewed journal publications. He is also a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. 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, he has served on several National Academy of Sciences boards and panels.