Mark Levine
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mark D. Levine is the Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Division has a staff of 400 researchers and support staff. The research is on energy efficiency technology for buildings, indoor air quality, and key clean energy conversion and supply technologies. The Division is internationally prominent as well in analysis of key national and international energy issues.

Dr. Levine also leads the China Energy Group at LBNL, which has pioneered many important undertakings with China on energy efficiency policy analysis since its inception in 1988. The group of six full-time LBNL staff maintains very close ties to leading governmental and private organizations in China involved in energy.

Dr. Levine is on the board of directors of well-regarded national and international non-profits in energy and environment. He is Chair (Center for Resource Solutions); Member, Board of Directors, of four others (American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Center for Clean Air Policy, California Clean Energy Fund and Shanghai Pacific Energy Center); and Member, Advisory Board (Asian Pacific Energy Research Centre in Tokyo and the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center). He is a delegate to and co-ordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has served on many high-level national and international panels and drafting committees relating to energy efficiency. Dr. Levine has authored more than 100 technical publications, relating to energy efficiency and methods of reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, received a Fulbright fellowship (accepted), a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (declined), and a National Institutes of Health Fellowship (accepted). He attended Harvard graduate school of Chemistry but quickly transferred to UC Berkeley, from which he received a PhD.