Nathan Hultman

Prof. Nathan Hultman is director of the Environmental and Energy Policy Program at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Global Economy and Development Program.

His research focuses on international climate policy, green growth, and private sector decisions to undertake low-carbon energy technology investments. His current projects focus on energy technology innovation in emerging economies; low-carbon investment decisions in Brazil, India, Korea, and South Africa; nuclear and biofuel energy transitions in Brazil, Sweden, and the United States; the Clean Development Mechanism and Technology Mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and U.S. energy technology portfolios.

He has participated in the UN climate process since the Kyoto meeting and is a contributing author to the IPCC. He is also associate director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Before joining the University of Maryland, he held a faculty appointment at Georgetown University. He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation, & Society at the University of Oxford. Dr. Hultman holds a Ph.D. in energy & resources from the University of California, Berkeley.