Dr. Jonathan Koomey, a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute, is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University.
For more than 11 years he led LBNL’s End-Use Forecasting Group, which analyzes markets for efficient products and technologies for improving the energy and environmental aspects of those products. The group develops recommendations for policymakers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy on ways to promote energy efficiency and prevent pollution. Dr. Koomey is also a Research Affiliate of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Koomey serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Contemporary Economic Policy, and has appeared on Nova/Frontline, BBC radio, CNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace, On the Media, Tech Nation, The California Report, Tech TV, CNET radio, and KQED radio. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Science, Science News, American Scientist, Technology Review, Dow Jones News Wires, Christian Science Monitor, Harvard Magazine, Inside Energy, Environment-Energy Daily, USA Today, SF Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Computer World, Interactive Week, Information Week, CNET news, MacWeek, CIO Magazine, Business 2.0, Salon.com, The Standard.com, Computing Canada, The Fresno Business Journal, and Network Magazine. In 1993, his article, titled "Cost-Effectiveness of Fuel Economy Improvements in 1992 Honda Civic Hatchbacks" won the Fred Burgraff Award for Excellence in Transportation Research from the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board. He was an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow for 2004—that program trains environmental scientists and policy analysts to communicate effectively with the media and the public. In January 2005, he was named an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow. His 2006 book, Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving, was published in August 2001 by Analytics Press, and is now in its third printing, and has recently been translated into Chinese.
Dr. Koomey holds MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of eight books and more than 150 articles and reports on energy efficiency and renewable power technologies, energy economics, energy policy, environmental externalities, and global climate change.
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