Experts

Edward Cunningham is an Ash Center Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, an affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Industrial Performance Center, and a consultant to public and private sector organizations. In the fall of 2011 he will join Boston University’s Department of Geography and Environment as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Cunningham graduated from Georgetown University, received an A.M. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at M.I.T. He was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to the PRC, during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. His primary research interests relate to energy markets, comparative political economy, industrial organization and competitiveness, and public policy. He is fluent in Mandarin and Italian.

Dr. Cunningham is the author or a contributing author of: Global Taiwan (M.E. Sharpe, 2005); “China’s Energy Governance: Perception and Reality”, Audits of Conventional Wisdom Series (M.I.T. Center for International Studies, 2007); “China and East Asian Energy: Prospects and Issues”, Australia-Japan Research Centre (ANU, 2008); “Why Pollute? Explaining the Environmental Performance of Chinese Power Plants”, China Economic Quarterly (September 2008); “Greener Plants, Grayer Skies? A Report from the Front Lines of China’s Energy Sector”, Energy Policy vol. 37:5 (May 2009); and “Fueling the Miracle: China’s Energy Governance and Reform”, in Joseph Fewsmith (ed.) China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society, Rowman and Littlefield, (July 2010). He is currently completing a book on China’s energy markets and energy governance during the modern reform period.

Additional Information:

• Edward Cunningham’s homepage

Publications:

• “Greener Plants, Grayer Skies? A report from the front lines of China’s energy sector” Energy Policy, 2009, vol. 37, issue 5, pages 1809-1824 [with Edward Steinfeld and Richard Lester]
• “Chinas Energy Governance: Perception and Reality”

Meredydd Evans is an energy policy and finance expert with 17 years of international experience. She has worked on energy efficiency and clean energy policies and projects in numerous countries. She is a senior staff scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which she is managing a program on international sustainable energy, including efforts on greenhouse gas mitigation, building energy codes, district heating and clean energy investments. She began working at PNNL in 1994, and she was seconded to the International Energy Agency in Paris from 2002-2006. While at the IEA, she served as Acting Head of the Non-Member Country Division and she wrote two books on energy policy. Both works have been used by national governments in designing policies, laws and regulatory systems. In addition, she has she led assessments of climate-related investments and policies, and developed energy efficiency and greenhouse mitigation projects worth over $100 million.

Ms. Evans has a B.A. from Columbia University’s Barnard College and an M.A. from Harvard University. She is fluent in five languages and has published numerous books and articles.

Sarah Forbes leads WRI’s work on carbon capture and storage (CCS). She developed her expertise in CCS with 8 years of experience in program management and energy analysis at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and as a consultant with Potomac-Hudson Engineering. Her publications include Guidelines for Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, and Storage, work on regulatory frameworks CCS, the role of CCS in state climate change activities, and protocols for reporting CCS projects as greenhouse gas reductions. She previously led the education and roadmap development efforts for the Department of Energy’s Carbon Sequestration Research Program.

Sarah lives in Maine with her husband, son, and a dog named Moose. Sarah’s an outdoor enthusiast and her hobbies include cycling, kayaking, and cross-country skiing.

Additional Information:

• Sara Forbes’s homepage

Publications:

• Guidelines for Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage
• CCS in China: Toward an Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulatory Framework

Kelly Sims Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School.

She directs the Energy, Climate, and Innovation (ECI) research program in Fletcher’s Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, where she previously directed the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group. Broadly, she focuses on energy and climate policy in both the United States and China. She is particularly interested in the role of policy in spurring the development and deployment of cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, domestically and internationally.

A Truman Scholar, she has a MALD and PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and an AB from Occidental College. She speaks Spanish and basic Mandarin Chinese. She is the author of China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (The MIT Press 2006), editor of Acting in Time on Energy Policy (Brookings Institution Press 2009), and numerous academic articles and policy reports.

In the News:

• Kelly Sims Gallagher in “US, China called upon to step up greenhouse pledges”, Boston Globe, December 16, 2009

Additional Information:

• Kelly Sims Gallagher’s homepage

Publications:

• Breaking the Climate Impasse with China
• China’s Fuel Economy Standards for Passenger Vehicles: Rationale, Policy Process, and Impacts
• Catalyzing a strategic transformation to a low-carbon economy: A CCS roadmap for China
• Driving Carbon Capture and Storage forward in China
• Technical, environmental, and economic assessment of deploying advanced coal power technologies in the Chinese context