Dr. Eric Martinot currently resides in Beijing, China as visiting faculty at Tsinghua University. He is also research fellow with the Worldwatch Institute. From 2000 to 2003 he served as renewable energy program manager for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) at the World Bank in Washington DC. As program manager he guided the GEF's renewable energy strategies and synthesized knowledge and experience with renewable energy markets, policies, and investments around the world. He is author of over 60 publications on renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries and countries in transition. His education includes Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley (1995, 1991) and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984).

Prior to the GEF, Dr. Martinot served as a consultant on international energy programs and projects for the United Nations, World Bank, GEF, U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and International Energy Agency. He also served as senior scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute--Boston and as convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has taught on energy and environment as adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and was a Fulbright fellow in Russia in 1993-1994.

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