Dr. Eric Martinot, Clean Energy Expert Dr. Martinot is a leading global expert in the field of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and distributed energy including technologies, markets, investments, policies, strategy, project evaluation, and urban-level policy and planning. He has 26 years of experience working in this field, in a diverse array of regions, including China, Russia, Japan, South Asia, and Eastern Europe. He has worked at both national and local levels on policies, planning, and project development. During his tenure as climate change program manager for the Global Environment Facility at the World Bank, he became recognized as a global authority on clean energy market development, finance, and project lessons and evaluation. He also created innovative frameworks of strategic priorities for GEF strategies to accelerate renewable energy in developing countries. Dr. Martinot is also widely recognized for creating, directing, and writing the influential publication REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, which he first wrote in 2005 and which has become an annually published and widely-cited reference for hundreds of thousands of readers. He has consulted for many UN and multilateral agencies, including the World Bank, UNDP, UNECE, UNFCCC, and International Energy Agency, and has worked for a number of non-governmental organizations. He has taught graduate-level courses on sustainable energy at five universities, most recently as professor of management and economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology. His degree in electrical engineering gave him a solid foundation in energy technology, and his PhD in Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley gave him world-class training in interdisciplinary analysis and synthesis.