Climate Navigator: A New Tool for Policy Leaders to Address Environmental Challenges

Mark Huberty is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and a research associate with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. His research interests include the political economy of climate change, the relationship of financial markets to economic evolution, and European politics. He was a member of the core organizing team for the Copenhagen Climate Council’s conference on Innovation in Climate and Energy in June 2008; for that conference, he co-authored working papers on biofuels and innovation and risk management in climate mitigation. Before coming to UC Berkeley, he was a research associate at the AT Kearney Global Business Policy Council, and a consultant in the healthcare practice at Accenture. He holds degrees from Harvey Mudd College (Chemistry) and The Johns Hopkins University, SAIS (European Studies and International Economics).

Nina Kelsey is a graduate student in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and a research associate with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. She received a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale (2001) and an M.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley (2007). Her research interests include the political economy of climate change, international climate negotiations, the effects of national economic structures on international deals, and the intersection of climate change mitigation and economic development. She served as a member of the core organizing team for the Copenhagen Climate Council’s conference on Innovation in Climate and Energy in June 2008; for that conference, she co-authored working papers on biofuels and innovation and risk management in climate mitigation. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, she worked as an Analyst with CSMG Adventis, a leading telecommunications strategy consultancy located in Boston.

Dr. Gary L. Baldwin received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, 1967, and 1970, respectively. Dr. Baldwin has extensive experience in the corporate arena, holding technical and management positions at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where his research involved microwave and optical devices. He served for twelve years as the Director of the Solid-State Technology Laboratory and was a member of the senior management team of HP Labs. A former Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley, Dr. Baldwin has served at U.C. Berkeley as the Executive Director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center (1999-2003), the Executive Director of CITRIS (2003-2008), and currently serves as the CITRIS Director of Special Projects in Energy and the Environment.

John Zysman is a professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley and co-founder of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy(BRIE). Zysman is also a founder of Q Network Inc. Professor Zysman received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT. He has written has extensively on European and Japanese policy and corporate strategy; his interests also include comparative politics, Western European politics, and political economy.