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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographical Information
Appendix A: Committee Member Biographical Information
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Previously, she served as the director of Equitable Climate Solutions at the Bezos Earth Fund and the director of the Inclusive Clean Economy Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where she supported collaborations that catalyzed world-leading climate and equity policies.
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From June 2014 to September 2015, she served in the Obama administration as a senior policy advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the senior China advisor in the Special Envoy for Climate Change office at the Department of State. Dr. Gallagher is a member of the board of the Belfer Center for Science and Interna tional Affairs at Harvard University.
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, the ARTBA Steinburg Award (2019) , the Faculty Award of the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association (2009)
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Hollis focuses her work on the intersection of public health, environmental justice, and climate change, and on methods for accessing and documenting the health impacts of climate change on communities of color and other traditionally disenfranchised groups. She works to identify priority health concerns related to climate change and other environmental assaults and evaluate climate and energy policy approaches for their ability to effectively address climate change and benefit underserved communities.
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Committee on the Environment, the Green Building Alliance, Turner Sustain ability, and the Global Assurance Group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She is a registered architect and a fellow of the AIA.
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During his time at UC Irvine and Yale University, he has contributed to state and national research policy initiatives, including serving as an advisor to a California Air Resources Board member, and as a participant of the U.S. Global Change Research Program's workgroup on Climate Vulnerability and Social Science Perspectives.
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Dr. Miller's current research focuses on the human and social dimensions of energy transitions, including the social value of distributed renewable energy systems, strategies for ad dressing poverty and inequality through energy innovation, the organization of urban and regional energy transitions, and the design and governance of solar energy futures.
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He also served on the Voluntary Carbon Standard Steering Committee for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use and on numerous other national and international committees involving climate and carbon cycle research. He is a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, recipient of the Soil Science Society of America's Outstanding Research Award in 2015, and 2019 winner of the Global Foodshot Groundbreaker Award.
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Dr. Rai's interdisciplinary research at the interface of energy systems, behavioral sciences, complex systems, and public policy focuses on enabling a broad diffusion of sustainable energy technologies globally.
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Carbon Cycle Science Program. DEVASHREE SAHA is a senior associate at WRI United States.
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She has participated as an expert in civil litigation cases, regulatory proceedings before state and federal agencies, and business consulting engagements. Previously, she served as the assistant secretary for policy at DOE and was the secretary for environmental affairs in Massachusetts, the commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and the executive director of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council.
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He is also a re search associate at the Energy Institute at Berkeley and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a recipient of the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and the IZA Young Labor Economist Award.
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