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Daniel Kammen
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Daniel Merson Kammen
EducationCornell University (BA)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
WorkplacesUniversity of California, Berkeley
WebsiteOfficial website

Daniel Merson Kammen (born 1962)[1] is an American scientist, renewable energy expert, and former government figure. Since July 1, 2025, he has been a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University .[2] Before joining Hopkins, he fully retired from the University of California, Berkeley where he was the Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group [3] .

Kammen is noted as a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their report, Climate Change 2007, assessing man-made global warming.[4] In 1998, Kammen was elected a permanent fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and in 2007 received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Commonwealth Club of California.[4] Kammen was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.[5]

Early life and education

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Originally from Ithaca, New York, Kammen is the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Cornell University professor Michael Kammen.[6] He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Cornell University (1984) and his master's degree (1986) and PhD (1988) in physics from Harvard University.[7] As a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech, Kammen began to transition to energy research, with a focus on the role of energy in developing economies.[8]

Career in government

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On September 15, 2007, Kammen was appointed chief technical specialist for renewable energy and energy efficiency at the World Bank.[9]

In 2016, he was selected as a U.S. Science Envoy by the United States State Department.[10] He resigned from this position in 2017, citing what he believed to be President Trump's failure to denounce white supremacists and neo-Nazis.[11] His August 23, 2017, resignation letter went viral, as netizens noticed that the first letter of each paragraph spelled out I-M-P-E-A-C-H.[12]

Kammen has been mentioned as a potential Secretary of Energy in a Joe Biden administration.[13]

In 2025, Kammen co-authored EnergyNet Explained: Internetification of Energy Distribution, a preprint describing EnergyNet, a decentralized electricity distribution architecture inspired by internet networking principles.[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ https://search.library.cooper.edu/permalink/01NYU_CU/1c53fbr/alma990062385540107874
  2. ↑ "Renewable Energy Expert Daniel Kammen Joins Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor". Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Johns Hopkins University. July 29, 2025. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Kammen resigns federal post as science envoy, and adds plug for impeachment". Berkeley News. University of California, Berkeley. August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Daniel M. Kammen - Copenhagen Climate Council". Copenhagen Climate Council. Archived from the original on January 5, 2009. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members". April 29, 2025.
  6. ↑ Schudel, Matt (December 4, 2013). "Michael Kammen, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 77". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Kammen, Daniel. "Kammen CV" (PDF). Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ Raphael, Chris. "Dan Kammen's race against climate change". Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  9. ↑ Kessler, Richard A. (September 10, 2010). "World Bank names California professor as clean energy chief". ReCharge. NHST Media Group. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Announcement of U.S. Science Envoys". United States Department of State. February 26, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Prominent UC professor resigns post in Trump administration". The Sacramento Bee. August 23, 2017.
  12. ↑ Amy B Wang (August 23, 2017). "Trump's science envoy quits in scathing letter with an embedded message: I-M-P-E-A-C-H". The Washington Post.
  13. ↑ "POLITICS: Who would run Biden's DOE?". www.eenews.net. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ Birgersson, Jonas; Weiss, Marc A.; Chen, Jimmy; Kammen, Daniel; Kåberger, Tomas; Carrero-Martínez, Franklin; Wernberg, Joakim; Menser, Michael; Ajami, Newsha K. (September 9, 2025). "EnergyNet Explained: Internetification of Energy Distribution". arXiv:2509.08152 [eess.SY].
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