Name David Sandalow | Appointed by Barack Obama | |
Books Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction Similar Barack Obama, Daniel Poneman, Carlos Pascual, Kristina M Johnson, Steve Isakowitz | ||
David b sandalow
David B. Sandalow has served in senior positions at the White House, State Department and U.S. Department of Energy. He is currently the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
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From Spring 2009 to Spring 2013, Sandalow served in positions at the United States Department of Energy, including Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs
Prior to his appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy, he was a Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Energy and Environment Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He also chaired the Energy & Climate Change Working Group at the Clinton Global Initiative.
He was Executive Vice President at the World Wildlife Fund from 2001 to 2003.
He has also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. State Department. (Brookings Bio picture
Early in his career, he was an attorney with the Office of General Counsel at the, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He earned his B.A. from Yale in 1978, and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1982.
Freedom From Oil
He wrote Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction .
The plot centers around a fictional Presidential Plan to End Oil Dependence, detailed below:
He also authored the 2009 Brookings Institution book Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington?