東京在住。中国・北京清華大学およびニュージーランド・ヴィクトリア大学ウェリントンにて客員研究員として持続可能なエネルギーについての講義を毎年行っている。21世紀のための自然エネルギー政策ネットワーク(REN21)が2005年以来刊行している世界自然エネルギー白書の主執筆者でもある。それ以前には、ワシントンD.C.の世界銀行でシニア・環境エネルギー・スペシャリストを、また、気候変動に関する政府間パネル(IPCC)で主執筆を務めた。今までに再生可能エネルギーやエネルギー効率に関する65冊の書物を出版している。エネルギーと資源の分野における学位をカリフォルニア大学バークレー校で、また、電子工学の分野における学位をマサチューセッツ工科大学で取得している。
Dr. Eric Martinot is an internationally recognized scholar, writer, and teacher on the subject of renewable energy. He is report author of the just-released REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report, and was lead author until 2010 of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, an annual synthesis that he first created in 2005.
He currently serves as senior research director with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Tokyo and teaching fellow with Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He also maintains research affiliations with the Worldwatch Institute and the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association, and is an editorial board member for the journal Energy Policy. He lived in Beijing for three years as senior visiting scholar at Tsinghua University, and was formerly a senior energy specialist with the World Bank, renewable energy program manager with the Global Environment Facility, and adjunct professor of public policy at the University of Maryland. He has written 70 publications on renewable and sustainable energy since 1990, and holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources (1995) from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1984) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His web site is www.martinot.info.
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