David Sandalow
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
In office
October 28, 1999 – January 19, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byEileen Claussen
Succeeded byJohn F. Turner
Personal details
Born1957 (age 66–67)
EducationYale University (BA)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (JD)

David B. Sandalow (born 1957) is the inaugural fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. He has held senior positions at the White House, State Department, and U.S. Department of Energy. At Columbia, Sandalow also serves as the co-director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs.

From spring 2009 to spring 2013, Sandalow served in positions at the United States Department of Energy, including Under Secretary of Energy (acting) and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs [1]

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.[2]

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

Sandalow serves on the board of ReNew Power, India's largest renewable power developer, and as an advisor to a number of other companies.

He earned a B.A. from Yale and J.D. from University of Michigan Law School.

Freedom From Oil

He wrote Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction .[3]

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?[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Department of Energy.gov, http://www.energy.gov/organization/davidsandalow.htm Archived 2011-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Department of Energy.gov, http://www.energy.gov/organization/davidsandalow.htm Archived 2011-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-148906-1, 2007-10-01. (http://www.calcars.org/books.html#ffo )
  4. ^ David B. Sandalow, ed. (2009). Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (1st. ed.). The Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-0305-1.

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