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Annelise Gill-Wiehl

At ERG Annelise has con­tin­ued the study of com­mu­ni­ty ener­gy solu­tions, with both cook­ing and com­mu­ni­ty exten­sion ser­vices focal areas for her ana­lyt­ic and field studies.

Annelise Gill-Wiehl stud­ied envi­ron­men­tal engi­neer­ing and inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame.  There, she worked with the Keough School of Glob­al Affairs’ Asso­ciate Dean for Pol­i­cy and Prac­tice, Sara Siev­ers, through the Kel­logg Inter­na­tion­al Schol­ars Pro­gram. They inves­ti­gat­ed how to incor­po­rate the pref­er­en­tial option for the poor into pol­i­cy. Gill-Wiehl’s own research inves­ti­gates ener­gy infra­struc­ture and the bar­ri­ers to tech­nol­o­gy adop­tion. Gill-Wiehl and Pro­fes­sor Siev­ers pilot­ed a Com­mu­ni­ty Tech­nol­o­gy Pro­gram in Shi­rati, Tan­za­nia through a Kel­logg Research Grant.

While an under­grad­u­ate she interned for the Foun­da­tion of Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment in Masa­ka, Ugan­da. Addi­tion­al­ly, Gill-Wiehl con­duct­ed rough­ly 200 house­hold ener­gy sur­veys through an Expe­ri­enc­ing the World Fel­low­ship to inves­ti­gate ener­gy infra­struc­ture in Shi­rati. Her research inter­ests are at the inter­sec­tion of engi­neer­ing and pol­i­cy in the East African con­text. She hopes to pur­sue a PhD to fur­ther inves­ti­gate these issues.

The­sis Title: Pilot of Com­mu­ni­ty Tech­nol­o­gy Work­ers in Shi­rati, Tanzania

Best, Dennis V.

Den­nis has focused his career on tech­nol­o­gy and sus­tain­abil­i­ty pol­i­cy in emerg­ing and devel­op­ing economies. His research inter­ests include tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion pol­i­cy and impacts to resource and rur­al devel­op­ment, tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer and the polit­i­cal econ­o­my of land use man­age­ment. He has led pro­grams with the Paris based Inter­na­tion­al Ener­gy Agency, as an offi­cial of the OECD, work­ing with emerg­ing economies on ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy pol­i­cy and con­tribut­ing to the Agency’s analy­sis of ener­gy, envi­ron­ment and cli­mate poli­cies (specif­i­cal­ly work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with Chi­na and oth­er tran­si­tion economies in explor­ing long-term clean ener­gy options, includ­ing advanced bioen­er­gy, car­bon seques­tra­tion and neg­a­tive emis­sions sys­tems.) Pri­or to liv­ing in Berke­ley, he spent five years in France, and sev­en years in Bei­jing, Chi­na – advis­ing gov­ern­ment and indus­tri­al clients on sus­tain­abil­i­ty and tech­nol­o­gy deploy­ment ini­tia­tives. He holds a BA in polit­i­cal sci­ence (inter­na­tion­al rela­tions) and a con­cen­tra­tion in East Asian stud­ies from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les (UCLA).

Sanchez, Daniel L.

Daniel L. Sanchez is an alum­ni of the Ener­gy and Resources Group and the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­tory at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia-Berke­ley. He is inter­ested in quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis to inform pub­lic pol­icy, focus­ing on bioen­ergy and cli­mate pol­icy. His cur­rent research focused design, deploy­ment, and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of bioen­ergy with car­bon cap­ture and seques­tra­tion (BECCS) tech­nolo­gies. Daniel has pre­vi­ously held posi­tions with the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Ener­gy (ARPA‑E), Green for All, and the Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion. He holds an M.S. in Ener­gy and Resources and a B.S.E. in Chem­i­cal and Bio­mol­e­c­u­lar Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of Pennsylvania.

Dan has been a post-doc­tor­al fel­low at the Carnegie Insti­tu­tion at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, and is cur­rent­ly a AAAS Fel­low in Wash­ing­ton, DC.  He is inter­est­ed in the deploy­ment and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of tech­nolo­gies that sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce ener­gy-relat­ed CO2 emis­sions or remove CO2 from the atmos­phere. Daniel’s work and engage­ment spans the aca­d­e­m­ic, non­govern­men­tal, and gov­ern­men­tal sec­tors. He recent­ly com­plet­ed a post­doc­tor­al research fel­low­ship with the Carnegie Insti­tu­tion for Sci­ence work­ing with Drs. Chris Field and Katharine Mach. Daniel has pre­vi­ous­ly held posi­tions with the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Ener­gy (ARPA‑E), Green for All, and the Cal­i­for­nia Pub­lic Util­i­ties Commission.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the Ener­gy and Resources Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia-Berke­ley, and a B.S.E. in Chem­i­cal and Bio­mol­e­c­u­lar Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania.

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