Full Name
Daniel Kammen
Job Title
Professor and Chair, Energy and Resources Group
Company
University of California, Berkeley
Bio
Daniel Kammen is the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Chair in Sustainability, and Professor in the Energy and Resources Group, and in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley and in the Goldman School of Public Policy.
Since 1999 Kammen has been a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Kammen has served as the Technical Lead for the World Bank on Renewable Energy, and served as Science Envoy for the US State Department in the Obama Administration.
In 2020 Kammen was inducted in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research group, the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL, http://rael.berkeleley.edu) conducts research and engaged in action-oriented partnerships to decarbonize energy systems worldwide, and to build energy access as part of the Just transition.
He is a pilot and lives in Oakland California with his wife Dr. Bamidele Kammen. He and has two daughters, and a food obsessed Labrador Retriever, Onyx.
Since 1999 Kammen has been a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Kammen has served as the Technical Lead for the World Bank on Renewable Energy, and served as Science Envoy for the US State Department in the Obama Administration.
In 2020 Kammen was inducted in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research group, the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL, http://rael.berkeleley.edu) conducts research and engaged in action-oriented partnerships to decarbonize energy systems worldwide, and to build energy access as part of the Just transition.
He is a pilot and lives in Oakland California with his wife Dr. Bamidele Kammen. He and has two daughters, and a food obsessed Labrador Retriever, Onyx.
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