David J. Jhirad, Ph.D
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HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Professor of Environmental Policy; Director of the Energy, Resources and Environment (ERE) Program. Dr. Jhirad was the Vice President of Research and Evaluation and the Special Adviser on Energy and Climate Change at the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Jhirad served as Vice President for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute, a highly regarded environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Former professor and/or researcher at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Brookhaven National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts; was special adviser on energy and climate and vice president of Research and Evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation and was vice president for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute; served in the U.S. Department of Energy as deputy assistant secretary for International Energy Policy, Trade and Investment and senior adviser to the secretary of Energy; led U.S.
bilateral relationships with all major energy producing and consuming nations, and represented the United States as vice chairman of the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency in Paris and lead delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Energy Working Group; as senior energy and science adviser to USAID, worked in Latin America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on energy policies to ensure equity, environmental sustainability, energy technology innovation and infrastructure investment; testified before Congress on energy and environmental issues; Ph.D., applied physics, Harvard University
