MEASURING SUCCESS
Jonathan Koomey
Researcher, Author, Lecturer, and Entrepreneur
Jonathan Koomey is a researcher, author, lecturer, and entrepreneur who is one of the leading international experts on the economics of climate solutions and the energy and environmental effects of information technology. Dr. Koomey was a lecturer in Earth Systems, School of Earth, Energy, & Environmental Sciences at Stanford University from November 2016 to June 2018, and for four years before that he was a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. He has also held visiting professorships at Yale University (Fall 2009), Stanford University (2003-4 and Fall 2008), and the University of California, Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group (Fall 2011). He was a Lecturer in Management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in Spring 2013. For more than eleven years he led Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL’s) End-Use Forecasting group, which analyzed markets for efficient products and technologies for improving the energy and environmental aspects of those products. The group developed recommendations for policymakers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy on ways to promote energy efficiency and prevent pollution. Koomey is also a Research Affiliate of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Contemporary Economic Policy. Dr. 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. in History and Science from Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of nine books and more than two hundred articles and reports on energy efficiency and supply-side power technologies, energy economics, energy policy, environmental externalities, and global climate change. He has also published extensively on critical thinking skills. Dr. Koomey has appeared on Nova/Frontline, BBC radio, CNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace, On the Media, Tech Nation, Bloomberg West, and at the Commonwealth Club’s Climate One series, and has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Science, Technology Review, Dow Jones News Wires, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and CIO Magazine, among others. Dr. Koomey 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 article, titled Cost-Effectiveness of Fuel Economy Improvements in 1992 Honda Civic Hatchbacks won the Fred Burggraf Award for Excellence in Transportation Research from the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board. In 2012 he was named by GigaOm as one of 10 innovators changing the game for Internet infrastructure, and by CIO Magazine/Infoworld as one of fifteen superstars of sustainable IT. 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 Jan. 2005, he was named an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow, and in 2011 he was named a Google Science Communications Fellow for his work on climate solutions. His book teaching trade skills to young analysts, Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving, was first published in 2001 by Analytics Press, is now in its 3rd edition (2017), and has been translated into Chinese and Italian. More than 34,000 copies are now in print. His latest book on climate solutions is Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs, released in Feb. 2012