Daniel Kam­men is the found­ing direc­tor of RAEL and pro­fes­sor of  Ener­gy, with appoint­ments in the Ener­gy and Resources Group, The Gold­man School of Pub­lic Pol­icy, and the Depart­ment of Nuclear Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley. Kam­men directs the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­tory (RAEL).  Dur­ing 2010 – 2011 Kam­men served as the first Chief Tech­ni­cal Spe­cial­ist for Renew­able Ener­gy and Ener­gy Effi­ciency. He now serves as a Fel­low of the U. S. State Department’s Ener­gy and Cli­mate Part­ner­ship for the Amer­i­cas (ECPA).

Kam­men is the Direc­tor of the Trans­porta­tion Sus­tain­abil­ity Research Cen­ter.  Kam­men received his under­grad­u­ate (Cor­nell A., B. ’84) and grad­u­ate (Har­vard M. A. ’86, Ph.D. ’88) train­ing is in physics After post­doc­toral work at Cal­tech and Har­vard, Kam­men was pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­icy at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity in the Woodrow Wil­son School of Pub­lic and Inter­na­tional Affairs from 1993 – 1998.  He then moved to the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berkeley.

Kam­men directs research pro­grams on ener­gy sup­ply, trans­mis­sion, the smart grid and low-car­bon ener­gy sys­tems, on the life-cycle impacts of trans­porta­tion options includ­ing elec­tri­fied vehi­cles and land-use plan­ning, and on ener­gy for com­mu­nity devel­op­ment in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America.

Daniel Kam­men is a coor­di­nat­ing lead author for the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Kam­men is the co-devel­op­er of the Prop­erty Assessed Clean Ener­gy [PACE] Financ­ing Mod­el: ener­gy effi­ciency and solar ener­gy financ­ing plan that per­mit instal­la­tion of clean ener­gy sys­tems on res­i­dences with no up-front costs.  PACE was named by Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can as the #1 World Chang­ing Idea of 2009 (co devel­oper with Cis­co DeVries).  Kam­men serves on the Nation­al Tech­ni­cal Advi­sory Board of the U. S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency.  He host­ed the Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel series Ecopo­lis, and had appeared on Front­line, NOVA, and twice on 60 Minutes.

Kam­men is the author of over 300 jour­nal pub­li­ca­tions, 4 books, 30 tech­ni­cal reports, and has tes­ti­fied in front of state and the US House and Sen­ate over 30 times.