Douglas Arent is Executive Director of JISEA. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and serves on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future. He is a member of the National Research Council Committee to advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). He is also a member of the International Advisory Board for Energy Policy, an associate editor for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, on the Editorial Board of Sustainability, and the Editor in Chief of Renewable Energy Focus.

Channing Arndt is a senior research fellow at United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams. His programme of research has focused on poverty alleviation and growth, agricultural development, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the economic implications of climate change.

Mackay Miller is a Professional Scholar at JISEA/NREL. In addition to his JISEA research, Professor Miller is Lead Analyst for Technology & Strategy at National Grid. He previously worked at NREL, including an assignment at the U.S. Department of Energy. He has written widely in areas of renewable energy, smart grids, and regulatory dimensions of power system transformation. He is a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and serves on the Editorial Board for the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine. He holds an MBA from the University of Colorado, and a BA in International Relations from Brown University.

Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He has some 38 years of experience in academic and applied development economics research, teaching and policy analysis. His field experience covers more than 20 years of in-country assignments in 35 countries across the developing world, including longer-term assignments in Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Vietnam. Finn Tarp has published widely in leading international academic journals alongside a series of books, and he is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's Council of Eminent Persons.

Owen Zinaman is the Deputy Lead for the 21st Century Power Partnership (21CPP), a multilateral initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial; he also manages the 21CPP South Africa in-country programme, and serves as a Power Sector Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He has published widely on power system transformation issues, including the grid integration of bulk and distributed renewable energy resources, power system flexibility, and policy and regulatory issues across the clean energy spectrum. He received his Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, with a focus on science and technology public policy.

Shahrouz Abolhosseini, National Iranian Oil Company
David Onyinyechi Agu, University of Nigeria
Celio Andrade, Federal University of Bahia
Douglas Arent, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Channing Arndt, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
Henok Birhanu Asmelash, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law
Ross Astoria, University of Wisconsin at Parkside
Lucy Baker, University of Sussex
Julien Bueb, Centre d'Analyse, de Prévision et de Stratégie
Radhika Bhuyan, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
Santiago J. Bucaram, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Aron Buzogány, Freie Universität Berlin
Stefan ?etkovi?, Freie Universität Berlin
Shouro Dasgupta, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Michael Davidson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Enrica De Cian, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Jiska de Groot, University of Cape Town
Martin de Jong, Delft University of Technology
Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside
Cherrelle Eid, Delft University of Technology
Chika Ezeanya, University of Rwanda
Mario Andrés Fernández, Landcare Research
Erik Gawel, Leipzig University
Alexandra Goritz, Third Generation Environmentalism
Diego Grijalva, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Rudi Hakvoort, Delft University of Technology
Lilian Richieri Hanania, Attorney
Almas Heshmati, Jönköping University and Sogang University
Karoliina Isoaho, University of Helsinki
Jesse Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fredrich Kahrl, Energy and Environmental Economics
Valerie Karplus, MIT Sloan School of Management
Abel Kennedy, University of Rwanda
Éric Nazindigouba Kere, African Development Bank
Wikus Kruger, University of Cape Town
Alice Le Clézio, Sciences Po Paris
Paul Lehmann, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research
Gilles Lepesant, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sabrina McCormick, George Washington University
Mackay Miller, National Grid
Evelyn Nwamaka Ogbeide-Osaretin, Adegboyega University
Eric Kehinde Ogunleye, Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning
Kim Hang Pham Do, Massey University
Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Fudan University
Britta Rennkamp, University of Cape Town
Miranda Schreurs, Freie Universität Berlin
Nicolai Schulz, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jonas Sonnenschein, Lund University
Benjamin K. Sovacool, University of Sussex
Sebastian Strunz, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research
Isabel Studer, Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development
Louise Tait, University of Cape Town
Finn Tarp, UNU-WIDER and University of Copenhagen
José María Valenzuela, El Colegio de Mexico
Elena Verdolini, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Dewi Yuliani, independent researcher
Owen Zinaman, 21st Century Power Partnership