About the Author | Daniel Kammen is James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley, with appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He is the Founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, and a former Science Envoy for the State Department. Also, since 1999, he has been a coordinating lead author or contributor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.Hisashi Yoshikawa has worked in Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, OECD and IEA, and currently at the University of Tokyo as Project Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives and Graduate School of Public Policy. He also serves as Research Director for the Canon Institute for Global Studies.Kensuke Yamaguchi is Project Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo. He has worked as an electrification advisor for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar since 2017. Currently, he is also contributing to the inter-disciplinary "UTokyo Ocean Alliance" program supported by the Nippon Foundation. |