Where policy, business, and science/technology intersect
My experience is in energy, innovation, and climate policy; My background includes experience across 3 fields, as an academic researcher in physics, as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, and as a policy researcher, which I combine to approach questions in energy, innovation, and climate systems through the multiple lenses.
Experience
Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, and School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Senior Research Associate, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines
Research fellow, University of Calgary, School of Public Policy
Founding director, Business Renewable Centre Canada
Managing director, Clean Economy, Pembina Institute
CEO, PowerIQ (electricity market modeling), McKinsey & Company
Practice manager, Clean Technologies, McKinsey & Company
Management consultant, McKinsey & Company
Research assistant, Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva
Research assistant, Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
Leadership
Current
Expert member for Clean Growth, Canadian Climate Choices Institute
Board Member, Pembina Institute
Previous
Board Member, Emissions Reduction Alberta
Advisory Committee Member, CREATE ReDeveLoP (training network), University of Calgary
Panel Member, Alberta Climate Technology Task Force, Alberta Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Board Member, Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment, University of Alberta
Advisory Council Member, Institute for Environmental Sustainability, Mount Royal University, Calgary
Education
Doctor of Science in Physics, University of Geneva, 2008
Masters of Arts in Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004
Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Pomona College, 2002