Speakers

Cutler J. Cleveland is Associate Director at the   Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the  Department of Earth and Environment. His research and teaching focus on the connections among energy, climate change, and sustainability. He is the founder and co-leader of  Visualizing Energy, an open-access, interdisciplinary science communication project that aims to increase actionable knowledge about a sustainable and just energy transition. He recently served as the principal investigator for  Carbon Free Boston, a technical assessment of strategies to assist the City of Boston in reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Dr. Cleveland is author and editor of reference works on energy that include the  Encyclopedia of Energy,  winner of an  American Library Association award; the  Dictionary of Energy; and the  Handbook of Energy.  Dr. Cleveland is the recipient of the  Adelman-Frankel Award  from the United  States Association of Energy Economics for 'unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics.' Dr. Cleveland holds a BS in Biology from Cornell University, a MS in Marine Science from Louisiana State University, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.