David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program,written in the C programming language,was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages,called Filo Server Pages,on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
L. John Doerr is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park,California. In February 2009,Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. Forbes ranked Doerr as the 40th richest person in tech in 2017,and as of August 1,2023,as the 146th richest person in the world,with a net worth of US$11.9 billion. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters, a book about goal-setting,and Speed &Scale:An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.
Ashok Gadgil Is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair Emeritus,and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California,Berkeley. He is an Affiliate and formerly served as Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Urs Hölzle is a Swiss-American software engineer and technology executive. As Google's eighth employee and its first VP of Engineering,he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure,as well as its engineering culture. His most notable contributions include leading the development of fundamental cloud infrastructure such as energy-efficient data centers,distributed compute and storage systems,and software-defined networking. Until July 2023,he was the Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google. In July 2023,he transitioned to being a Google Fellow only.
David J. Hayes is an American attorney and legal scholar who serves in the Biden Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. Hayes has led White House work on clean energy deployment issues,climate resilience and greenhouse gas emission reduction and carbon sequestration initiatives. Hayes also has assisted in developing and implementing the climate-related provisions included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
ARPA-E,or Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy is a United States government agency tasked with promoting and funding research and development of advanced energy technologies. It is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Cathy Zoi is an American business executive,and former CEO of EVgo the US's largest fast charging network for electric vehicles. She is the former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Leon Jay "Lee" Schipper was a physicist and energy efficiency expert who authored more than 100 technical papers and a number of books on energy economics and transportation. He was "often a critic of the conventional wisdom." He was remembered by climate scientists as "a giant" who "was brilliant at articulating the connections among technology,economics,culture,policy and politics."
Matthew L. Scullin is an American materials scientist and businessman,best known for his work in sustainability related to methane emissions reduction from the oil &gas and agriculture industries. He was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2012 and has published over 50 papers and patents,garnering over 1700 citations and an h-index of 17.
Steven J. Davis is an earth system scientist in the Department of Earth System Science of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. He is a highly cited researcher and leads the Stanford Sustainable Solutions Lab.
Jeffrey AdgateDean is an American computer scientist and software engineer. Since 2018,he has been the lead of Google AI. He was appointed Google's chief scientist in 2023 after the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain into Google DeepMind.
Cheryl Martin is an American chemist who serves as the head of the Centre for Global Industries at the World Economic Forum (WEF). She was previously the deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy,an initiative of the United States Department of Energy,from 2012 to 2014. Martin was also the deputy director for Commercialization at the agency where she led ARPA-E's Technology-to-Market program,which helps breakthrough energy technologies succeed in the marketplace.
Sally M. Benson is a professor of energy engineering at Stanford University. In 2014,she was appointed as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy,the university's hub of energy research and education. Benson will continue on as director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP),a position she has had since 2007.
Stacey Bent is a professor of chemical engineering and vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs (VPGE) at Stanford University. She is the Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor of Engineering,the Bert and Candace Forbes University Fellow in Undergraduate Education,and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She was the director of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and a senior associate dean in the Stanford School of Engineering until 2019. She is best known for contributions to semiconductor processing,materials chemistry,and surface science. Her work has been applied toward applications in semiconductors,solar cells,and catalysts.
Yi Cui is a Chinese-American scientist specializing in the fields of nanotechnology,materials science,sustainable energy,and chemistry. Cui is Fortinet Founders Professor at Stanford University,where he also serves as a professor of materials science and engineering and of energy science and engineering. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in the fields of materials science,environment and ecology,engineering,and chemistry as of 2023. From 2020 to 2023,Cui was the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy,and since 2023 he has served as the inaugural faculty director of the Sustainability Accelerator in the Doerr School of Sustainability.
The environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration includes a series of laws,regulations,and programs introduced by United States President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. Many of the actions taken by the Biden administration reversed or attempted to reverse the first-term policies of his predecessor,Donald Trump.
Julian Mark Allwood is a British academic known for his work in climate mitigation and metal forming. He is professor of engineering and the environment at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is a school at Stanford University focusing on climate change and sustainability. The school also researches many domains of fossil fuel extraction and development. It opened on September 1,2022,as Stanford's first new school since the School of Humanities and Sciences in 1948. It is considered one of the largest climate change–related schools in the United States.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to "make pivotal investments in break-through technologies and broadly applicable platforms,capabilities,resources,and solutions that have the potential to transform important areas of medicine and health for the benefit of all patients and that cannot readily be accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity."
Hal Harvey is an American energy policy advisor. He is the founder of Energy Innovation. Harvey was previously the CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation. He is a co-author of the book The Big Fix.
