Panelists

Meredydd Evans, Senior Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Meredydd Evans is an energy policy and finance expert with over 20 years of international experience. She has worked on energy efficiency and clean energy policies and projects in numerous countries. She is a senior staff scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where she \manages a program on international sustainable energy, including efforts on building energy efficiency codes and retrofits, energy data for policy and clean energy investments. She began working at PNNL in 1994, and she was seconded to the International Energy Agency in Paris from 2002 to2006. While at the IEA, she served as Acting Head of the Non-Member Country Division and she wrote two books on energy policy. Both works have been used by national governments in designing policies, laws and regulatory systems. In addition, she has she led assessments of climate-related investments and policies, and she has developed energy efficiency and greenhouse mitigation projects worth over $100 million. Ms. Evans has a B.A. from Columbia University’s Barnard College and an M.A. from Harvard University. She is fluent in five languages and has published numerous books and articles.

Jonah Steinbuck, Climate and Clean Energy Fellow, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy

Jonah Steinbuck is a Climate and Clean Energy Fellow in the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. His work currently focuses on advancing clean energy and energy efficiency policy through international fora such as the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC), the Clean Energy Ministerial, and the G-20. He serves as the U.S. lead for the IPEEC Building Energy Efficiency Task Group (BEET), which facilitates the exchange of best practices in building energy policy. Previously, he served on the staffs of the American Meteorological Society Policy Program, the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Peter Graham, Executive Director, GBPN

Dr. Peter Graham has been the Technical Advisor and past Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative where he has developed and managed many of UNEP’s key projects and publications in the building sector. He comes to the GBPN from a position as Head of Discipline for Architecture and Design at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In these roles, Peter worked closely with the public, civil and private sectors to assist the global transition to a sustainable building and construction industry.

Sha Yu, Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Sha Yu is a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research focuses on developing and implementing energy efficiency and clean energy policies in developing countries such as India, China, Russia, and Vietnam. Building on her experience in building energy codes development and implementation, she is currently working with the State of Rajasthan to roll out the implementation of the Energy Conservation Building Code. She is also assessing future energy consumption of the Indian buildings sector and policy options, using the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM). In addition, she has worked on the integrated assessment modeling in industrial, building, and transportation sectors; the modeling tool helps countries to analyze the impact of economic, demographic, and social development on energy supply and demand in the near and long terms. Sha Yu is also developing black carbon emissions inventory and mitigation measures in the Russian Arctic. Prior to joining PNNL, she worked on the environmental and social programs for the Beijing Olympic Games; she also worked on education and water projects in India focusing on social equity and development. Sha Yu received her Master’s degree in environmental and energy policy.