Speaker
Michael Blackhurst
Executive Director, The Open Energy Outlook (OEO) Initiative
Engineering & Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio
Dr. Michael Blackhurst is the Executive Director of the Open Energy Outlook Initiative in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Blackhurst has a strong record of interdisciplinary research in topics related to energy and the environment, with publications in engineering, economics, and computer science. Given his long-standing success integrating research and policy, he was selected by the National Academies of Science and Engineering Ambassador Program to serve as a science ambassador from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Blackhurst was previously the Co-Director of the Urban and Regional Analysis Program at the Center for Social and Urban Research and the Leonard Peters Faculty Fellow in Sustainability at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy/Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a MS in Environmental and Water Resources at the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Talks at this conference:
| 9:40 | An Introduction to the Open Energy Outlook Initiative |
| 9:55 | Panelist Q&A 1 |