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Jonathan Pershing

Jonathan Pershing

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Dr. Jonathan Pershing serves as at the Department of Energy both the Principal Deputy Director of the new Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy for Climate Change. In these roles, he supports DOE’s domestic policy agenda and provides input to the Secretary and senior department leadership on both domestic and international climate policy.  

Prior to joining DOE, Dr. Pershing was at the U.S. Department of State, where he served as the Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change and the lead negotiator representing the United States at meetings of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Before his appointment to the Obama Administration, he spent six years as the Director of the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a Washington, D.C., think tank; five years as the Head of the Environment Division at the International Energy Agency in Paris; and for nearly a decade in the 1990s, served the Science Advisor and Deputy Director of the Office of Global Change in the U.S. Department of State.  

Dr. Pershing holds a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics, and has also held positions in the private sector as a petroleum and mining geologist, and as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota and at American University. He has published and lectured widely on climate and energy issues, and has served as a lead author, review editor and contributor for reports of the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Jonathan Pershing joined the Climate CoLab communityJul 24, 2014
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