Advisory Board
Professor Dan Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy; Energy and Resources Group; Goldman School of Public Policy; Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment; Founding Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
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. He was then the Wezmann & Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the Divisions of Engineering, Biology, and the Humanities. Kammen received the 1993 21st Century Earth Award, recognizing contributions to rural development and environmental conservation from the Global Industrial and Policy Research Institute and Nihon Keizai Shimbun in Japan.
He is the author of over 90 journal publications and a book on environmental, technological, and health risks and numerous reports on renewable energy and development. 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.
Professor Kenneth Kletzer, Chair of the Economics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kenneth Kletzer´s primary area of research is international economics. Most of his research concerns the consequences of international financial market integration for welfare, growth and national policy autonomy. He also worked on many topics on open economy fiscal policy and in international trade. Recent research topics includes financial crises, sovereignty and international financial flows and the fiscal implications of economic integration. Professor Kletzer was a member of the economics faculty of Yale University before coming to UCSC in 1992. He was recently a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley and taught at the University of Bonn. Professor Kletzer has been a visiting scholar at a number of institutions, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Economic Policy Research Unit of Denmark. He has a particular interest in South Asia and currently serves as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. Professor Kletzer has also served as a Fulbright Fellow in South America. He is an associate editor of the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics.
Mart Bailey, Chairman for Marley Association; Managing Director for Callaway Private Equity Partners
Mr. Bailey serves as chairman and founder of non-profit organizing the US-China Green Tech Summit, The Marley Association. In 2000, Mr. Bailey founded Callaway Private Equity Partners, which serves the private financing needs of emerging growth companies. Callaway has worked on $300 million in venture capital and private equity transactions in the U.S. and China, with substantial experience in energy technology opportunities, in both renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Mr. Bailey is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Beijing University, majoring in East Asian Studies and Chinese. Mr. Bailey is a Co-Chair of the American Council on Renewable Energy’s Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF-West), and serves on the Boards of the Berkeley China Initiative (BCI), Berkeley Chinese Alumni International Association (BCAIA), U.S.-China Green Energy Council, and several private company boards. Mr. Bailey is an advisor to both the Asia Society and the Bay Area Council in San Francisco.
Blake Simmons, Vice President, Deconstruction Division Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
Blake Simmons is the manager of the Energy Systems Department of the Sandia National Laboratory. A chemical engineer by training, his expertise includes biofuel cells, nanophotonic materials, microfluidics, nanofluidics, desalination, biomineralization and enzyme engineering. Most recently, he has been studying enzymes isolated from extremophile organisms that could be applied to the deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuel material.