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FORMER DIRECTOR, ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIT Bill Chandler has worked for 32 years in energy and environmental policy, and is founder and former director of Advanced International Studies and Laboratory Fellow at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). He is also Professorial Lecturer in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Chandler has authored or co-authored 10 books, which have been favorably reviewed by scholarly and popular critics and translated into several foreign languages. His books include Energy: The Conservation Revolution (New York: Plenum, 1981), coauthored with John H. Gibbons; The Myth of TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933-1983 (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1983); Lester Brown et al., State of the World (Vols. 1984-1988) (New York: W.W. Norton); Carbon Emissions Control Strategies: Case Studies in International Cooperation (Washington: Conservation Foundation, 1990); and Energy and Environment in the Transition Economies (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000). He has often published in both technical and popular journals, including Climatic Change and Scientific American, has occasionally appeared on national radio and television, including National Public Radio and a Peter Jennings ABC special, and was recently quoted in Science and in Nature. Chandler has testified on energy and security issues many times in the U.S. Congress. Chandler's international work has included institution building, project finance, and policy analysis. He led the creation of independent, not-for-profit energy efficiency centers in six nations, including Russia and China, drawing on support from governments and foundations; helped arrange financing of $1 billion in technology transfer projects in Russia, Ukraine, and China; and led several collaborations of international scientists in policy studies for the United Nations, the U.S. government, and U.S. private foundations. Chandler served as a member of the international energy panel of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Chandler’s earlier work concentrated on domestic U.S. energy and security policy. In 1988, he led a study involving 30 U.S. energy experts, resulting in the publication of Energy Efficiency: A New Agenda (Washington: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, 1988). And in 1979, he collaborated with Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in organizing a project that led to publication of The Dependence Dilemma: Gasoline Consumption and America’s Security (Cambridge: Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1980). In 1988, he published “Assessing SDI,” a chapter in State of the World on ballistic missile defense, reflecting his study at Harvard University. Chandler continues to manage several international collaborations, including an energy-efficiency relationship between the United States and Russia under the “Energy Working Group”; the U.S.-Ukrainian collaborative program on energy-efficiency investment; and the Finance Committee for the U.S.-China Memorandum of Understanding on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. He served as the chief technical advisor to the United Nations Development Program for a three-year effort to train Chinese government officials in energy security in a market economy, and has recently led an effort for the Blue Moon Fund to develop clean energy equity investment in China. Chandler received the 1992 Champion of Energy-Efficiency Award from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy for his work. In 1999, he received the first Global Climate Leadership Award from the International Energy Agency. Chandler retired from Battelle in 2005 to create a new company to develop clean energy projects in transition economies. He holds a B.S. from the University of Tennessee, and an M.P.A. from Harvard University. |
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