May 1, 2025
Please join us for our next CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar where Jonathan Phillips, Director of the James E Roger Energy Access Project at Duke University, will present Energy in Transition: The End of Aid and What it Means for Achieving Modern Energy Systems in Emerging Economies. See below and the attached flyer for more details.
WHEN:
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Seminar: 4:00-5:00 pm, NAN 181, Open to the public
- Coffee & Career Chat: 9:30 – 10:30 am, MolES 215, Open to all UW Graduate students; casual drop-in session
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Jonathan Phillips is the Director of the James E. v, with an appointment at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability. His work focuses on policy, regulatory, and economic issues related to rural electrification, grid de-carbonization, off-grid energy systems, and energy for productivity. Phillips was the senior advisor to the president and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation during the Obama Administration, helping scale-up the agency’s climate finance capabilities and lead the implementation of strategic initiatives, including the agency’s $2.1 billion Power Africa portfolio. Before that, Phillips led private sector engagement and programming with Power Africa at USAID, helping ramp-up the $300 million presidential initiative into one of the largest public-private development partnerships in the world. From 2007-2014, he held a variety of roles in the U.S. Congress, most recently serving as the senior policy advisor to Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts. He also served on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming as well as the House Natural Resources Committee. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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