Dr. Lee Schipper
Director of Research, The Center for Transport and the Environment,
World Resources Institute
Lee Schipper earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics, but has devoted
his career to earthly problems of energy and environment as
an energy economist. He came to EMBARQ at its founding
in April, 2002.
His current projects at EMBARQ include testing of clean
fuels in Mexico, and development of indicators of sustainable
transportation in a number of Asian cities, including Hanoi,
Pune, Shanghai and Xi’an.
EMBARQ is the World Resources Institute’s Center
for Transport and Environment. EMBARQ’s mission
is to bring clean transportation solutions to people in cities
in the developing world.
Dr.
Schipper has authored over 100 technical papers and a number
of books on energy economics, use and conservation around
the world.
Dr. Schipper has been a guest researcher at the OECD Development
Centre in Paris, transport advisor to the Shell Foundation,
and staff senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
While chief scientist at the International Energy Agency (IEA),
he developed indicators of economy-wide energy use and carbon
emissions and wrote “Flexing the Link”, an important
book on urban transport and carbon emissions. His focus on
transport ranges from fuels and transport industry to non-governmental
organizations.
He led an IEA effort to develop indicators of sustainable
transport, writing ‘The Road from Kyoto,’ a report
on the transport and carbon dioxide policies of six member
countries.
Dr. Schipper was a member of the Swedish Board for Transportation
and Communications Research for four years, and is currently
part of the US Transportation Research Board's Committee on
Sustainable Transport.
He takes part in numerous prestigious international panels
and studies on energy and transportation, and is on the editorial
boards of five major journals in the fields.
Dr. Schipper brings a unique twist to the transport and energy
worlds, having obtained his BA in Music from Berkeley in 1968.
He still leads a jazz quintet from time to time, and recorded
“the Phunky Physicist” in Sweden in 1973.
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