John Deutch is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and an emeritus Institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served as chairman of the department of chemistry, dean of science, and provost. Deutch has held a variety of significant bipartisan government posts, including as director of central intelligence and deputy secretary of defense.
Valerie Karplus is an associate professor in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where she runs the Laboratory for Energy and Organizations at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Areas of expertise include decarbonization of global corporate and industrial supply chains. From 2011 to 2016, she co-founded and directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project.
Arun Majumdar is dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he cochairs the Energy and Climate Task Force. At the Department of Energy, he was chair of Energy Advisory Board, founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy, and acting under secretary of energy.
Dirk Smit is chief scientist and vice president of research strategy for Shell and also chairs Shell’s Science Council. He is a fellow of the Earth Resources Lab in MIT’s Earth Sciences department and of the American Physical Society. A member of university and industry advisory boards in the Netherlands, China, and the United States, Smit in 2002 received the Ludger Mintrop Award in geophysics.
James Sweeney is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University, and senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Precourt Institute for Energy. He previously served as chairman of the Stanford department of Engineering–Economic Systems and director or Stanford’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center.
