Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy
​Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Haas School of Business (Faculty Affiliate), Energy and Resources Group (Faculty Affiliate)

Director, Energy and Environment Policy Lab
Climate Lead, Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative

Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

​Jonas Meckling is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School. At Berkeley, he leads the Energy and Environment Policy Lab and the Climate Program of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. ​
 
Dr. Meckling studies the politics of climate and clean energy policy. He publishes his research in leading journals, including Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy and Science. Professor Meckling is the author of two books, the latest of which is Carbon Coalitions: Business, Climate Politics, and the Rise of Emissions Trading (MIT Press). 

He received multiple awards for his research, including the American Political Science Association's Emerging Young Scholar Award in the field of science, technology, and environmental politics. In 2021, Jonas Meckling was the Coleman P. Burke Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University. 

​Before joining Berkeley, he served as Senior Advisor to the German Minister for the Environment and Renewable Energy, was a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and worked at the European Commission. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.





















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