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Car­la Peter­man was appoint­ed by Gov­er­nor Jer­ry Brown in Jan­u­ary 2011. She filled the Pub­lic Mem­ber posi­tion on the five-mem­ber Com­mis­sion where four of the five mem­bers by law are required to have pro­fes­sion­al train­ing in spe­cif­ic areas — engi­neer­ing or phys­i­cal sci­ence, envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, eco­nom­ics, and law. Com­mis­sion­er Peter­man is the lead com­mis­sion­er on renew­able ener­gy and transportation.

Ms. Peter­man has con­duct­ed research at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Ener­gy Insti­tute at Haas since 2006 and the Lawrence Berke­ley Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry from 2008 to 2010. She was an envi­ron­men­tal busi­ness ana­lyst with com­mu­ni­ty devel­op­ment non-prof­it Isles from 2004 to 2005 and was an asso­ciate focused on ener­gy financ­ing in the invest­ment bank­ing divi­sion of Lehman Broth­ers from 2002 to 2004. Ms. Peter­man also served on the board of direc­tors for The Util­i­ty Reform Net­work from 2008–2011, most recent­ly as Board Treasurer.

Ms. Peter­man will com­plete her doc­tor­al stud­ies this year in Ener­gy and Resources at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Berke­ley. Her research focus­es on solar pho­to­volta­ic mar­kets, pol­i­cy, and finan­cial incen­tives. She has also worked and writ­ten on a wide range of Cal­i­for­nia ener­gy and pol­i­cy issues includ­ing, cap-and-trade, effi­ca­cy of local envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions, cli­mate change and com­mu­ni­ties of col­or, clean ener­gy sub­si­dies, and ener­gy secu­ri­ty. Peter­man holds a B.A. in his­to­ry from Howard Uni­ver­si­ty and an M.S. in envi­ron­men­tal change and man­age­ment and an M.B.A. from Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.