Contact and Biography
Schedule and Location
Eric Martinot splits his time between Tokyo, Beijing, Europe, and Wellington New Zealand. His current schedule:
November 7-15: US
November 17-25: Tokyo
November 28-December 1: Berlin
December 5-31: Tokyo
Email: contact at martinot.info
Biography
Dr. Eric Martinot is an internationally recognized scholar, writer, and teacher on the subject of renewable energy. He has been lead author (2005-2010) and research director (2005-2008) of the well-known REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, an annual synthesis of the state of renewable energy worldwide produced since 2005. He currently serves as senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo and as senior visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He teaches annually on clean energy at Tsinghua University, Tokyo University, and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He also maintains research affiliations with the Worldwatch Institute in Washington DC and the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association in Beijing, and serves in several other roles including chairperson of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), editorial board member of the journal Energy Policy, and advisor to a number of international organizations.
From 2005 to early 2008 he resided in Beijing, where he taught classes as a visiting faculty at Tsinghua University and conducted research on China's renewable energy situation. From 2000 to 2003, he was a senior energy/environment specialist with the World Bank in Washington DC, where he managed the renewable energy program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and was responsible for reviewing and recommending approval of GEF grants for renewable energy projects in developing countries. He also guided the GEF's renewable energy program strategies and synthesized knowledge and experience with renewable energy markets around the world. While working at the World Bank, he taught part-time on energy and environment as an adjunct professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. He also taught at Tufts University in 1999 as an adjunct professor of international relations. Earlier, he served as consultant to the Environment Department of the World Bank, as senior scientist with the Stockholm Environment Institute--Boston, as convening lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and as consultant to the United Nations, U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and International Energy Agency.
Dr. Martinot is author of 70 publications on renewable energy and energy efficiency, including works that are seminal in the field. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley (1991 and 1995) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984).