Jae Edmonds

Jae Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory & University of Maryland

Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration with the University of Maryland at College Park.  His research in the areas of global, energy, technology, economy, and climate change spans three decades, producing several books, numerous scientific papers and countless presentations.  He is one of the pioneers in the field of integrated assessment modeling of climate change.  His principal research focus is the role of energy technology in addressing climate change.  He is the Chief Scientist for the Integrated Assessment Research Program in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.  He has been an active participant in all of the major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.