Financial investors play a central role in financing the clean energy transition. Yet their impact on decarbonization extends beyond markets to politics.
In this Energy Policy Seminar, Jonas Meckling, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School, explored how investors shape political support for and opposition to decarbonization policy.
About the Speaker
Jonas Meckling is Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School. At Berkeley, he leads the Energy and Environment Policy Lab and the Climate Program of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative.
Dr. Meckling studies the politics of climate policy and the energy transition, with a focus on green industrial strategy. He received multiple awards for his research, including the American Political Science Association's Emerging Young Scholar Award in the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.
Previously, he was a visiting professor at Yale University, served as Senior Advisor to the German Minister for the Environment and Renewable Energy, was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and worked at the European Commission. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
