Daniel M. Kammen is Professor of Energy and Society in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) , Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy and Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) at Berkeley.
His prior positions included being a Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology, a Lecturer at Harvard University in Physics and Environmental Science and Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Kammen advises the U. S. and Swedish Agencies for International Development, the World Bank, and the Presidents Committee on Science and Technology (PCAST), and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group III and the Special Report on Technology Transfer). Dr. Kammen serves on the technical review board for the GEF (the STAP), is a lead author for the Special Report on Technology Transfer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and advises the World Bank and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and well as the African Academy of Sciences.
Daniel Kammen received his undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell University, and his masters and doctorate in physics from Harvard for work on theoretical solid state physics and computational biophysics.
The planning matters. That if you want to do something, it's worth thinking about why you want to do it and how to do it, and so just announcing we have solar panels to give away, is far less effective than announcing we're going to have a competition. Those people who bring in us, a plan for how t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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