Career
In 2001, Bazilian was a Fulbright Fellow at SINTEF in Norway. [11] From 2002 to 2007, Bazilian served as the innaugural Head of Energy Policy and at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. [1] [9] [10] Following this, he became a political appointee and Senior Advisor on Energy Security to the Irish Ministry of Energy under Eamon Ryan. [9] [12] In 2008, Bazilian was the lead negotiator for the European Union on technology at the UNFCCC climate negotiations. [13] [14] In 2009, he became Special Advisor on Energy Access to the Director-General of UNIDO, and helped to develop the United Nations Sustainable Energy For All Initiative while leading the UN-Energy program. [10] [15] [16] [17] [18] In 2011, he began serving as the Deputy Director of the Joint Institute on Strategic Energy Analysis at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. [19] [20] [21] From 2014 to 2018, he was the World Bank's Lead Energy Specialist. [1] [8]
He is currently a Professor of Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, and is the inaugural Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy. [10] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Energy, a Fellow of the Energy and Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an Advisor for the Energy and Defense Initiative at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Sustainable Finance Programme at Oxford University. [22] [23] [24] [2] He holds or has held academic affiliations at IIASA, Columbia University, the Royal Institute of Technology, Cambridge University, [25] and University College Cork. [2] [23] [22] In 2021, he was appointed to Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council. [26] He is a Board Member of the Veterans Advanced Energy Project. [27]
Dr. Bazilian has testified for both the United States Senate [28] and the United States House of Representatives, [29] as well as governing bodies of Ireland and the European Union. He sits on several tech and finance company Advisory Boards, such as: Air Capture, [30] Capsol Technologies, [31] Volta Insite, [32] and Nomadic Ventures. [33]
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