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Dr. Lee Schipper (April 7, 1947-)

Lee Schipper is a Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University and a Senior Project Scientist in Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. from Berkeley in Astrophysics, but has dedicated his career to the related problems of transportation, energy, and climate change. Dr. Schipper has worked as a staff scientists for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and in Group Planning for Shell International Petroleum Company. He worked as a visiting scientist for the International Energy Agency from 1995-2001, and in 2002 he helped found the World Resource Institute (WRI) Center for Sustainable Transportation, EMBARQ, where he served as Director of Research until his appointments at Stanford and Berkeley. He has published over 100 professional papers on energy, transportation, and climate change, and he sits on the editorial boards of five journals in these fields.

Dr. Schipper is also an accomplished musician with a B.A. in music from U.C. Berkeley. In 1973 he recorded "The Phunky Physicists" with Janne Schaffer, and he continues to perform on the vibraphones at major climate change and energy conferences as the lead for Lee Schipper and the Mitigators.