EUF Staff - Jonathan Koomey

Jonathan G. Koomey, former leader of the End-Use Forecasting Group, is a project scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He held the MAP/Ming visiting professorship in energy and environment at Stanford University for the 2003-2004 school year and is now a consulting professor at Stanford. Koomey holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and an A.B. (Cum Laude) in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of eight books and more than one hundred fifty articles and reports on energy efficiency, climate change, and environmental policy.

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 and KQED radio, among others. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, the Washington Post, Science, Science News, American Scientist, Dow Jones News Wires, USA Today, and numerous other publications.

Dr. Koomey has received two outstanding performance awards during his LBNL career, one for his leadership role in the 1997 Interlaboratory study on scenarios of U.S. carbon reductions and the other for his strategic contribution to the 2001 California Energy Crisis web site.  In 1993, his report 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.

Dr. Koomey's latest resumes and publications can be viewed here

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