Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Director, Energy and Environment Policy Lab
Climate Lead, Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative
Climate Fellow
Institute for Business in Global Society
Harvard Business School
Jonas Meckling is Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and 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 policy and the energy transition, with a focus on green industrial strategy. He is the author of two books and publishes his research in leading journals, including Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy and Science. 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.
Previously, he was a visiting professor at Yale University, 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.