The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation,established in 1974,that provides policy recommendations,analysis and data on the global energy sector. The 31 member countries and 13 association countries of the IEA represent 75% of global energy demand.
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 1 August,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 and Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California,Berkeley. He is a Faculty Senior Scientist and has served as director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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 Adgate "Jeff" Dean is an American computer scientist and software engineer. Since 2018,he has been the lead of Google AI. He was appointed Alphabet's chief scientist in 2023 after a reorganization of Alphabet's AI focused groups.
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 since he took office in January 2021. Many of the actions taken by the Biden administration reversed the policies of his predecessor,Donald Trump. Biden's climate change policy focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions,similar to the efforts taken by the Obama administration. Biden promised to end and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. The main climate target of the Biden administration is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the United States to net zero by 2050. A climate team was created to lead the effort.
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.
