Experts

Barbara Finamore is a senior attorney and director of NRDC’s China clean energy project, which aims to reduce energy consumption and global warming gas emissions in China through innovative policy development and technology demonstration. She has also worked in NRDC’s nuclear program, at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the Center for International Environmental Law. Barbara has served as president and chair of the Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE) and as vice chairman for public service of the ABA International Environmental Law Committee. She is a founder and board member of the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Barbara was awarded its Wasserstein Public Service Fellowship in 1993.

In the News:

• Barbara Finamore and Kenneth Lieberthal in “China Insists That Its Steps on Climate Be Voluntary”, New York Times, January 29, 2010

Additional Information:

• Barbara Finamore’s blog and homepage

Publications:

• Leading the Way Towards Climate Solutions for China
• From Crisis to Opportunity: How China is Addressing Climate Change and Positioning Itself to be a Leader in Clean Energy
• The Prospects for Global Cooperation to Address Climate Change at Copenhagen and After

Mr. Fridley has 25 years of experience working and living in China. Prior to 1993, Mr. Fridley led the China Energy Project at the East-West Center in Hawaii primarily in the area of petroleum supply and demand, refinery analysis and modeling, international oil trade and energy policy, and concurrently was a consultant with Fesharaki Associates. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as Business Development Manager in refining and marketing for Caltex China. Currently, Mr. Fridley is a staff scientist and deputy leader of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where his research involves extensive collaboration with the Chinese on end-use energy efficiency, industrial energy use, government energy management programs, data compilation and analysis, medium and long term energy policy research. He is a Mandarin speaker.

Additional Information:

• David Fridley’s homepage

Publications:

• Estimating Total Energy Consumption and Emissions from China’s Commercial and Office Buildings
• China’s Coal: Demand, Constraints, and Externalities
• China’s Building Energy Use
• Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook

Dr. Banning Garrett is the Director of the Asia Program at the Atlantic Council, a position he has held since March 2009 and held previously from January 2003 through January 2007.

Previously, he was the Director of the Initiative for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate at the Asia Society’s Center for U.S.-China Relations. He is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Sino-American International Dialogue (ISAID) at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Before joining the Council in January 2003, Dr. Garrett was a consultant for 22 years to the Department of Defense and other U.S. Government agencies carrying on a strategic dialogue with China. He was also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a founding board member of the U.S. Committee for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (USCSCAP).

Garrett has written extensively on a wide range of issues, including U.S.-China relations and cooperation on climate change, energy, and other strategic issues; U.S. strategy toward China; Chinese foreign policy and views of the strategic environment; globalization and its strategic impact; U.S. defense policy and Asian security; and arms control. Garrett has published in numerous journals, including International Security, The Washington Quarterly, Asian Survey, Arms Control Today, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The New York Times, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Global Times, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Chinadialogue, and YaleGlobal, and has contributed to many edited volumes on Asian affairs.

Garrett received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from Brandeis University. He has made nearly 50 trips to China since 1981 for consultations with Chinese officials and analysts as well as numerous similar visits to Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

Additional Information:

• Banning Garrett’s homepage

Publications:

• US-China Climate Accord a Game Changer
• US-China Relations: The Changing Climate of Diplomacy

Mikkal Herberg is the BP Foundation Senior Research Fellow for International Energy at the Pacific Council on International Policy. He also serves as Research Director on Asian Energy Security at The National Bureau of Asian Research and teaches at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego.

Previously he spent 20 years in the oil industry in senior planning roles for ARCO, where from 1997-2000 he was Director for Global Energy and Economics, responsible for worldwide energy, economic, and political analysis. He also headed country risk management and held previous positions including Director of Portfolio Risk Management and Director for Emerging Markets.

He writes and speaks extensively on Asian and global energy issues to the energy industry, governments, research institutions, and the media in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and the California Energy Commission. He is cited frequently in the news media, including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, South China Morning Post, Asahi Shimbun, National Public Radio, NIKKEI News, and Caijing. Recent publications include The Rise of Asia’s National Oil Companies: Geopolitical and Competitive Implications, The National Bureau of Asian Research; “Energy Security in the Asia-Pacific Region and Policy of the New U.S. Administration”, in America’s Role in Asia: Recommendations for U.S. Policy from Both Sides of the Pacific, Asia Foundation; and China’s Search for Energy Security: Implications for the United States, co-authored with Kenneth Lieberthal, The National Bureau of Asia Research. He is currently working on a special analysis for the Pacific Council on China’s ‘Energy Rise’ and The New Geopolitics of Global Energy.

In the News:

• Mikkal Herberg in “Energy Shortfalls Prompt Elusive Reform”, Radio Free Asia, February 15, 2010

Additional Information:

• Mikkal Herberg’s homepage

Publications

• China’s Search for Energy Security: Implications for the U.S.
• China’s Energy Consumption and Opportunities for U.S.-China Cooperation to Address the Effects of China’s Energy Use (statement before U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission)