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Marsh Distinguished Lecture Series - April 2004

Barry Solomon

Dr. Solomon's specialties are energy policy (especially energy efficiency and renewable energy development), emissions trading, ecological economics, and waste management. He is the president and founder of the US Society for Ecological Economics. Previously, he was senior economist in the Acid Rain and Climate Change Divisions of the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for extensive outreach and education with Public Utility Commissions (PUCs) on emissions trading, development and implementation of the conservation verification protocols, and for working with the utility industry and PUCs on the use of energy conservation and renewable energy as pollution prevention and acid rain compliance strategies. He also was instrumental in developing country studies for greenhouse gas reduction, the establishment of energy efficiency centers in Eastern Europe, and was a member of the special team that developed The Climate Change Action Plan for President Clinton. In addition, Dr. Solomon spent over four years at the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission working on electric utility fuel supply and petroleum market issues. He received a BA in Social Ecology from the University of California-Irvine, and MPA and PhD degrees in Public and Environmental Affairs from Indiana University. He is the co-author or editor of three books and over 100 published papers, book chapters, government reports and reviews, including 40 articles in refereed journals.