James (Jim) Sweeney, Stanford University, founding director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and Professor of Management Science and Engineering. Advisor for GLOGDA.

 

Sweeney’s professional activities focus on economic policy and analysis for energy and the environment, especially energy efficiency.  He is a senior fellow of the US Association for Energy Economics, California Council on Science & Technology, Hoover Institution, Precourt Institute for Energy, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.  Sweeney serves on the external advisory council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and on the California Energy Commission’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee. 

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Sweeney was the editor (with Alan Kneese) of the three-volume Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics, author of The California Electricity Crisis – an analytical history of California’s electricity restructuring and subsequent crisis – and of Energy Efficiency: Building a Clean, Secure Economy. Jim earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT and a PhD in engineering-economic systems from Stanford. He is a CSEE Follow.

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