ENERGY PATHS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Participant Backgrounds
Ann Berwick is the Co-Director of Sustainability for the City of Newton, Massachusetts. She served as Chair of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities under Governor Deval Patrick from June, 2010, until January 2015. She was also the president of the New England States Committee on Electricity from 2012 to 2015. Prior to being appointed chair of the DPU, Berwick was the Commonwealth’s Undersecretary for Energy and also Acting Chair of the Energy Facility Siting Board. She served as Chief of the Environmental Protection Division in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office from 1991 to 1996, where she exercised joint oversight of the Massachusetts Environmental Strike Force. She has been a legal services attorney, and a partner in the litigation department at the Boston law firm Goulston & Storrs. She served on the Newton School Committee for six years, including as chairperson from 1980 to 1981.
Berwick is married to classmate Don Berwick.
Physicist Amory Lovins ’68 (1947– ), is cofounder, Chief Scientist, and Chairman Emeritus of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org), author of 31 books and over 600 papers, advisor to major firms and governments worldwide for 45 years on advanced energy efficiency, and a designer of superefficient buildings, vehicles, and industrial plants. He received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards, and Germany’s Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit. A Harvard and Oxford dropout, former Oxford don, honorary US architect, Swedish engineering academician, and member of the National Petroleum Council, he has taught at ten universities (most recently Stanford’s School of Engineering and the Naval Postgraduate School)—but only subjects he’s never formally studied, so as to retain beginner’s mind. In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers.
Michael B. McElroy is the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies. He has served at Harvard as Director of the Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Director of the Center for the Environment. His research interests include changes in the composition of the atmosphere with an emphasis on the impact of human activity. He has taught classes on atmospheric physics and chemistry, environmental science, energy, technology, and the environment, and China’s energy economy. His research explores the manner in which changes in the composition of the atmosphere affect climate, and seeks to place the impact of contemporary human activity in a larger context by studying large-scale changes in the environment that occurred in the past. It addresses also challenges for public policy posed by the rapid pace of industrialization in developing countries such as China and India while exploring alternative strategies for more sustainable development in mature economies such as the United States. McElroy is the author of more than 300 technical papers and several books, most recently, Energy: Perspectives, Problems, and Prospects, and Energy and Climate: Vision for the Future, published by Oxford University Press. He serves as an advisor to the Premier of China on matters relating to environment and development.