toward a sustainable tomorrow GSPP and the Green Economy

FALL 2013 A Clean Energy Proposal — A Race to the Top Cisco DeVries Sets the PACE Joseph Castro Named President of Cal State Fresno

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THE GOLDMAN SCHOOL IS BURSTING AT THE SEAMS with new ideas, new courses, departments and new people. In the past two years a marvelous group of over a dozen new faculty 8 Complexity and members and lecturers have arrived at GSPP. Just finding offices for everyone has been Interdisciplinary a struggle, but we have shoehorned them into our two buildings thanks to the patience 4 Approaches to and goodwill of our extraordinary staff. Toward a Environmental Research To accelerate the process of getting to know one another, all faculty, lecturers, and senior staff went off to a one-day retreat at Cavallo Point, near the Golden Gate Bridge Sustainable 12 Faculty Notes in Marin County. Our goals were to remind ourselves of the School’s history, to talk 13 GSPP Bookshelf about our research, and to make plans for the future. Tomorrow 14 Students: Municipal Waste The weather was lovely and the location sublime. Even better were the discussions of into Biofuel? our history and faculty research. Professors John Ellwood, Michael O’Hare, and Robert Reich told us about how public policy schools developed in the late 1960s — with 14 From Martha Chavez Berkeley in the forefront. Professors Lee Friedman and David Kirp talked about how 15 Students: EDF Climate Aaron Wildavsky, our founding dean, put together an interdisciplinary group of faculty 7 Setting the PACE Corps Fellowship who honed a new vision of education for public service that emphasized problem- Putting affordable solar power within reach. 16 Event Highlights solving and innovation based upon the best available social science knowledge. Hun- dreds of public policy programs have adopted this vision in the last forty-five years. 10 A Jobs Race to the Top 19 Alumni: Former deans Smolensky and Nacht talked about the 1990s and 2000s when we reno- Governor Jennifer M. Granholm’s plan to Stuart Cohen vated our old building, built a new one, increased our program size, made stellar addi- bring good jobs back to America. 20 Class Notes tions to our faculty, and became the best public policy school in the nation. 23 From the Alumni Board

Dean Henry E. Brady 18 Fresno State’s New President 23 From Annette Doornbos Joseph Castro embraces the challenges 24 GSPP Donors facing higher ed. 26 GSPP Global 27 Center for Environmental Public Policy

Editor’s Note WHEN PUTTING TOGETHER THIS ISSUE OF POLICY NOTES, I was struck by GSPP’s extensive reach in the areas of clean energy and climate change. The list of faculty, During the rest of the day, we talked about our research and our future. Unlike some alumni and students that might be included in this issue grew very quickly. As places that are merely holding companies of scholars who are submerged in their “problems” go, it was a good one. disciplines with only a superficial interest in public policy, GSPP is truly a school of This issue of Policy Notes highlights a few of the many Goldman School alumni, public policy where our faculty members are faculty and students who are working at the intersection of policy and business, ■■ Dedicated to solving public policy problems and making government the green economy. Whether it is the heavy lifting done by Professor Lee Friedman’s work better. paper on electricity rates and reducing greenhouse gases, Cisco Devries’ (MPP ’00) ■■ Committed to strong disciplinary competencies that provide insight into drive to finance solar power or student Kate Daniel’s internship helping the human motivation, social influence, economics, institutional design, politics, and City of Sacramento find ways to implement the program that Cisco pioneered, human action. GSPPers are shaping the conversation about how to unleash new technologies and drive the innovations that will bring us that much closer to a greener, more sustainable tomorrow. Bora Reed Continued on page 6 [email protected] Editor

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A GREEN ECONOMY, one that promotes however, it incentivizes investment in regional carbon price, harmonize long- and the 2000s. She now brings that exper- an approach that could challenge existing policies. Market-ori- clean energy, reduces pollutants and green business.” term reduction goals, set mid-term tise to the examination of biofuels. assumptions about how markets work. ented policies are theo- greenhouse gases, requires an intersec- Professor Friedman is the author of interim targets, and use similar rules to In a joint postdoctoral appointment “Economists assume that the most elegant retically more efficient tion of government regulation, business “Electricity Pricing and Electrification for encourage greener transportation. with the Goldman School and Berkeley’s and efficient policies are the ones that let the but may end up direct- and innovation in both technology and Efficient Greenhouse Gas Reductions,” a Finally, the report recommends the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), Hanna market decide. You shouldn’t ‘pick winners.’ ing resources to short- public policy. Goldman School Professor study which recommends that California’s introduction of time-of-use pricing, which is examining the political processes and But there is a small-but-growing body of term marginal solu- Lee Friedman, postdoctoral fellow Hanna Air Resources Board (CARB) include a calibrates the price of (in this case) elec- policymaking related to ethanol. In a proj- literature on the history of energy transi- tions rather than long Breetz and Professor Michael O’Hare are section about the years 2020–30 in its tricity to demand. ect that is just underway, she compares tions that is increasingly making the point term radi­cal solutions. diving into the complexities of regula- upcoming scoping plan. The recommen- “Time-of-use pricing will unleash the four fuel policies: CA’s low carbon fuel that when you want radical innovation as In her other tion, business innovation and invest- dation was adopted by CARB in the draft market for investors in technology to store standard, the Renewable Fuel Standard opposed to marginal improvements, there re­search project, ment. Their research has direct bearing of the plan. electricity because it will pay to fill up bat- and two policies in the European Union. needs to be some picking of winners. Inno- Hanna applies her on policy today and is helping to shape a “It’s a critical first step,” says Professor teries at night when the electricity is All four policies are trying to catalyze the vations cost a lot, so if you want to encour- expertise to examine greener tomorrow. Friedman. “It tells green business inves- cheaper and cleaner,” says Professor Fried- commercialization of new fuels, using age people to adopt them, there may have to California’s Renew- tors that the system is going to continue man. “Whole new industries will be cre- (depending on the policy) mandates, per- be targeted rather than market-oriented able Fuel Standard Hanna Breetz California’s Global for a long time.” ated, including demand responsiveness formance standards and penalties for non- Warming Solutions programs that briefly reduce the flow of compliance and/or annual targets. Three Continued on next page Act (AB32), aims to Professor Friedman’s report also energy to customers for short periods of of the four policies are biofuel specific. reduce greenhouse encourages California to pay greater atten- time and then aggregate that energy to “The biofuel supply chain is very com- gas emissions to tion to linkages and partnerships with meet demand in peak times without rely- plicated and pulls together a lot of differ- 1990 levels by 2020. other jurisdictions. ing on polluting generators.” ent actors (farmers, refiners, blenders, It is groundbreaking “Because climate change is a worldwide transporters and retailers) all of whose and ambitious legis- problem, it doesn’t make sense for Califor- As a doctoral student at MIT, Hanna investments must be coordinated to get lation that has set nia to make vigorous efforts to fight cli- Breetz became interested in the relation- new biofuel to commercial scale,” says into motion new pol- mate change on its own,” he says. “The ship between policy innovation and the Hanna. “Most policies affect one node of icy and regulatory more partnerships and linkages there are, commercialization of green technology, the supply chain and assume the incen- efforts. But 2020 is the better things are for green business.” particularly biofuels. tives will percolate upstream and down- less than a decade Since the report’s recommendation was “The energy sector is typically divided stream. But I’m not convinced that’s true.” Prof. Lee Friedman away. What happens released, California has forged a formal between the power and transportation sec- Hanna plans to take a value chain after that? link with Quebec, allowing (among other tors,” she says. “In transportation, the focus approach to understanding how market “For green business investment, it is things) the acceptance of one another’s is mostly on liquid fuels, an area where structures mediate the impact of policies, important for the State to be clear about greenhouse gas allowances. Recently, change is especially hard. Finding substi- what kinds of emissions reductions it is California Governor Jerry Brown signed tutes for petroleum is a tough nut to crack.” going to require in the 2021–30 period,” a memorandum of understanding As part of her doctoral dissertation, says Professor Lee Friedman. “People who (MOU) with China, making the State the Hanna’s research included process tracing, are making large scale investments now first sub-national government to sign an which aims to understand a sequence of in things like new commercial buildings, MOU with China. The MOU provides for events that results in a particular outcome. need to decide whether the money they cooperation and partnership in the Her dissertation focused on the “crash invest in making it green will repay itself exchange of personnel, the sharing of programs” to develop petroleum substi- in lower bills in the future. This is tied trading systems information and adopt- tutes wrought by the oil crises of the 1970s directly to emissions goals. If CA did ing linkages that will help expand green nothing after it achieves its 2020 emis- business worldwide. Additionally, Cali- sions goals, there would be no incentive fornia has joined with Oregon, Washing- to continue to reduce emissions. If the ton, and British Columbia in the Pacific price of emission allowances increases Coast Action Plan on Climate and steadily through continued regulation, Energy in an agreement to create a

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(RSF), the Low Carbon Fuel Standard joined Professor Dan Kammen and Pro- Professor O’Hare’s By Cisco DeVries MPP ’00 In the summer of 2010, Fannie Mae and (LCFS) and the relationship between pol- fessor Alex Farrell at the Energy Resources research, funded by START BY ASKING YOURSELF A QUESTION: Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored icy and business. Group. He eventually co-authored a paper the Air Resources would you have a cell phone if you had to buy enterprises that dominate the home mortgage “The RSF is an important and incredibly on how ethanol can contribute to meeting Board that imple- 20 years’ worth of minutes up front? The market, directly challenged the position taken controversial biofuel policy,” says Hanna. energy and environmental goals. But the ments the LCFS, has answer for most people is no. Similarly, we by the White House. They issued new lender “Both the RSF and the LCFS are policies ILUC changed everything in how Profes- to do with a variety should not be surprised that it has been dif- guidance that deemed PACE a violation of a with life-cycle based greenhouse gas sor O’Hare thought about biofuel, espe- of policy issues ficult to convince homeowners to make exten- property owner’s mortgage contract — and thresholds, meaning that the greenhouse cially corn-based ethanol. related to getting this sive energy efficiency home improvements. therefore a possible default on their mortgage. gas emissions are calculated over the full “The only way to get corn to make etha- number right, but The energy and financial savings may be real, Faced with the potential risk to homeowners lifespan of that power source, from nol is to outbid someone who would use it also accounts for but such improvements require a lot of money (and voters), almost all local and state govern- groundbreaking to waste management.” for corn flakes or cattle feed,” he says. “That how much uncer- up front — and it often takes a long time for ments responded by putting residential PACE One of the key components of the RSF means corn price goes up on international tainty to include. the savings to make up for the cost. programs on hold. is that it takes into consideration Indirect commodity markets. Increasing corn “Should it be, for Six years ago, I set out to try and solve The reaction to this was massive. A politi- Land Use Change (ILUC), the unintended prices will cause more corn to be planted example, +/- 10 grams? Prof. Michael O’Hare this problem. cally diverse coalition of local and state gov-

consequences of releasing more CO2 as instead of soybeans, and there will be less or 50 grams?” he asks. The idea that became PACE — Property ernments, federal agencies, private compa- more and more farmland around the of both to be exported. In places like Bra- “How should policy respond? What Assessed Clean Energy — started with a big nies, and nonprofit organizations came world is devoted to growing (for example) zil, someone will cut down and burn a bit does it mean to be on the ‘safe side’ of hole in the ground. A group of homeowners together to demand that this position be corn to be turned into ethanol. of rain forest and plant grass to accommo- this? The issue is further complicated in Berkeley, California had petitioned the city Cisco DeVries changed and PACE allowed to continue. More “The ILUC presents a fascinating policy date cattle that has been displaced to grow by the fact that land use change carbon to have all their utility lines placed under- than 40,000 organizations and individuals sub- making case,” says Hanna. “Typically, more soybeans — the price of which has discharge occurs all at once, at the ground. As part of an “underground utility district,” the city pays mitted comments to federal regulators in support of PACE. For

some degree of scientific consensus exists gone up because everyone is planting corn. beginning of production, while the CO2 the up-front cost, usually from a bond, and the benefited home- many working to save PACE, this is about protecting an impor- for years or decades before there is policy. It’s like a row of dominos falling. from fossil fuel dribbles out over years. owners repay the cost via a line item on their property tax bill tant clean energy initiative. But for many local and state govern- In this case, policy has gotten ahead of “The carbon discharge from clearing So the overall impact on global warm- over a number of years. As chief of staff to the mayor of Berkeley, ments, this is also about protecting their rights. scientific modeling. Now that it’s been that forest drastically reduces the carbon ing from fossil fuels might be less for I was called in when a last-minute political issue arose regarding For the first time in history, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac written into the policy, the modeling itself advantage of using corn as fuel,” contin- decades, even though more carbon is this new district. determined that they have the power to tell state governments becomes politicized. What does this mean ues Professor O’Hare. “California’s Low ultimately released.” While trying to solve this problem, I was struck that the same what’s an allowable tax and what isn’t. This is part of the reason for the development of modeling? For pol- Carbon Fuel Standard needs a number “So far, biofuels have been a disappoint- law could potentially be used to cover the up-front cost of solar why the State of California, as well as a number of local govern- icy effectiveness? For environmental out- attached to every fuel that reflects the ment,” says Professor O’Hare. “It’s unclear and energy efficiency. If we use this tool to pay for putting poles ments, sued to block the regulatory actions.

comes? These are the kinds of questions I grams of CO2 (or equivalent) released to what degree they’ll ever play more than and wires underground, I thought, why not pay for putting them Today, residential PACE remains in legal and regulatory limbo. hope to answer.” per unit of energy in the fuel: this num- a niche role in our future energy picture. on the roof? The concept was simple — allow property owners PACE financing for commercial properties has emerged as one ber needs to reflect the carbon released As usual, there is no ‘silver bullet’. If we the chance to repay the cost of solar or energy efficiency as an of the hottest trends in energy efficiency finance, but we have not Professor Michael O’Hare first became that was not part of the original corn want to save the planet, we have to change assessment on their property tax. I got to work understanding the given up the fight for residential PACE. A few local communities interested in biofuels in 2006 when he farmer’s intention.” the way we live in many ways.” G law, talking to legal and financial experts, and developing a plan. have charged ahead with residential PACE in direct defiance of Six months later, the San Francisco Chronicle’s banner headline the directives from Fannie and Freddie. And the State of Cali- read “Berkeley’s Radical Solar Plan.” With that, the concept of fornia, led by Governor Brown’s efforts, has created a new insur- PACE went public — and my phone hasn’t stopped ringing since. ance reserve program to solve the risk to Fannie Mae and Fred- Dean’s Message Continued from page 2 As Berkeley’s program got under way — selling out the avail- die Mac. It looks increasingly like residential PACE will reemerge able spaces in its pilot program in just nine minutes — State and next year across the country. ■■ Adept at using an extraordinary cal participation, national security, cli- to speak truth to power, as our founding local governments around the country responded by passing leg- It has been more than six years since I first wrote a memo pro- array of methods including experi- mate change, inequality and poverty, dean Aaron Wildavsky taught us, we also islation and building programs. Local and state governments — posing the PACE concept in Berkeley. Today, as the CEO of a ments, observational data, interviews, arts policy, drug policy, domestic vio- want to bring truth to power by informing supported by the private sector — were leading a revolution in company dedicated to helping our nation finance a clean energy statistics, ethnography, big data, his- lence, management, economic policy, the powerful about the facts and mobiliz- the way we pay for, use, and think about energy. transformation, I have a better sense of what works and what tory, coding of texts, and every other health, and many other topics. ing the powerless through our ideas. In October 2009, I joined Vice President Joseph Biden for a doesn’t. There have been successes and setbacks. Regardless of imaginable method. ■■ Working and talking together. White House announcement of new rules for PACE as well as the outcome of the regulatory debates in Washington, we’ve ■■ Involved in doing research around the approval of more than $100 million in grants to speed its proven that financing works, that we can make great change the world with no fewer than ten This last point is the most important deployment. This accelerated the already remarkable efforts to quickly, and that local and state governments can lead. Now it is faculty members who are doing work one. Our faculty, staff, and our students expand PACE. Today, 30 states have PACE-enabling laws, and up to us to make good on that promise. G involving other countries or the inter- know that improving public policy millions of dollars in PACE financing has been transacted. national system. requires using all the skills and insights of Henry E. Brady But PACE is also a story of great frustration — of federal agen- ■■ Engaged with critical topics includ- the social sciences. It also requires talking Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy cies working at cross-purposes, of regulatory intransigence, of Francisco DeVries is CEO of Renewable Funding. You can reach ing energy, education, development, across disciplines and methodologies to Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor an industry not quite ready for prime time, and of state policies him at [email protected] criminal justice, public finance, politi- solve real problems. GSPP not only wants of Political Science and Public Policy that sometimes lacked context or flexibility.

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AS WE AWAIT THE FULL DETAILS of the impacts. Despite this ‘Rosetta Stone,’ Fifth Assessment report (AR5), it is worth translating science to language we have looking at the evolution of science assess- failed to act collectively. FIRST IPCC ASSESSMENT (1990) ment, policy evaluation, and normative One area where a deeper policy discus- Unequivocal detection of human impact action on climate. sion can rapidly advance the overall con- FAR not likely for a decade. The climate change Conference of the versation is on this science/action inter- Parties meeting (COP), most recently in face. As AR5 emerges, the climate change/ SECOND (1995) Doha in December 2012, has now come climate response interface will need deep, Balance of evidence suggests discernible and gone. As has been dissected in the substantive action that responds rapidly to human influence. press, very little was accomplished. Some new ideas and opportunities. The rapid SAR will see this as a failure, as I do, and others publication and open access features of THIRD (2001) will reasonably enough note that this ERL are particularly critical here as events Most of the warming in the last 50 years meeting was never intended to be a mile- such as Hurricane Sandy, economic or is likely (>66%) due to human activities. stone moment. The current plan, in fact, political advances in climate response

is for a ‘post-Kyoto’ international climate made by cities, regions or nations, all war- TAR FOURTH (2007) agreement to be adopted only at the rant assessment and response. This is one Most of the warming very likely (>90%) COP 20 summit in December 2015. of many areas where ERL has been at the due to human activity. Warming will

The science of climate change only forefront of the conversation, through not AR4 most strongly and quickly impact the Dan Kammen is the Class of 1935 continues to get clearer and clearer, only Letters, but also commentary pieces global poor. Distinguished Professor of Energy and bleaker. and the conversation that Environmental- A summary of the Intergovernmental researchweb can facilitate. SRREN (2011) Panel on Climate Change’s findings from This process of translating proposed 80% clean by 2050 possible, if... the First Assessment Report (1990) to the solutions — innovations — between latest report is presented in Figure 1. This interest groups, has been in far too short graphic is specifically not about the scien- supply recently. One promising example tific record alone. What is most important has been the science/action dialog about this figure is the juxtaposition of between a leading climate research center the language of science and the language and the World Bank. of … language. “The Earth system’s responses to cli- Note, in particular that as the physical mate change appear to be non-linear,” FIGURE 1: A superposition of the state of climate science in three key data sets, and the dates of the First, Second, climate change metrics have progressed, points out Potsdam Institute for Climate Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (FAR, SAR, TAR, and AR4, respectively) plotted as vertical lines. At right are the words — shown at right — have Impact Research (PIK) Director, John the key statements from each of these reports, along with the conclusion of the Special Report on Renewable Energy slowly but surely progressed. In 1990, at Schellnhuber. “If we venture far beyond (SRREN, completed in 2011) which found that up to an 80% decarbonization of the global economy was possible if the time of the first assessment report the 2° guardrail, towards the 4° line, the we can enable and launch a large-scale transition to a clean energy system consistent with what a number of ‘leading (FAR) the strongest scientific consensus risk of crossing tipping points rises edge’ cities, regions, and nations have already accomplished or started. statement was that another decade of data sharply. The only way to avoid this is to would likely be needed to clearly observe break the business-as-usual pattern of climate change. Through the second to production and consumption.” fourth (SAR, TAR, and FAR) reports, This assessment came in a report on increasing clarity on the science of cli- climate science commissioned by the This statement warrants careful discus- ment to many in the science community, story is playing out in millions of critical mate change translated into a consensus World Bank. Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president sion. Not only is World Bank President but it opens the door to an increasingly cases. Each warrants reporting and of overwhelming blame on human activ- of the World Bank, noted succinctly and Kim affirming the results of the PIK study, detailed dialog between climate change action, as well as integration with assess- ities. The key statements from each report critically that: and by direct extension the IPCC (because science and agencies engaged in action. ments of current data gathering and ‘big are not only about the growing evidence the same authors at PIK are also central to This interplay of analysis and wider data’ needs, and with wider socioeco- for anthropogenically driven climate “… most importantly, a 4°C world is so the work of the IPCC), but he is clearly scrutiny can play a critical role in moving nomic questions of effective political and change, but they have moved into the eco- different from the current one that it noting that while many climate analysts climate science and assessment to climate policy response. Through that dialog, logical and social impacts of this change. comes with high uncertainty and new rightly talk about the need to not exceed a solutions. The story is far from one just at papers in ERL will be critically important AR4 critically concluded that climate risks that threaten our ability to anticipate 2° temperature increase, the path the world the global level. As climatehotmap.org to advancing not only climate science, but change would lead to climate injustice as and plan for future adaptation needs.” is currently on, namely 4–6° will be cata- and many other location specific assess- the interactive dialog between knowledge the poor, globally, bear the brunt of the strophic. This may come as too soft a state- ments detail, the environmental change and action. G

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WASHINGTON HAS BEEN THE INCUBATOR OF BAD PRACTICES LATELY, from gridlock to shutdown to utter The Sunbelt states might team together battery for the electric car, a high-tech energy Jobs Race to the Top will ensure inaction on the country’s crucial needs. The most pressing of those needs is a strategy to create good-paying to create a regional clean energy bank product previously manufactured almost that America will actually be at the table to provide access to capital for solar exclusively in Asia. We offered irresistible to feast on this explosive growth jobs middle class jobs in America — when we are competing for those jobs globally. We need to be creative and manufacturing or distributed genera- state tax incentives for manufacturers of sector — instead of watching our global daring. And we need to think less top-down and more bottom-up. tion. Allow states to partner to make “advanced energy storage.” We pancaked economic competitors eat us for lunch. We need a jobs moon shot — a Jobs Race to the Top. The goal: create three million new jobs in three years. their best competitive case, developing our state incentives on top of the com- This new era of joblessness and partisan It’s doable with an aggressive strategy that respects and incentivizes the governors to act. the most dynamic and effective pub- petitive federal Department of Energy gridlock demands a bottom-up economic lic policy and use those federal dollars grants to advanced battery companies and development approach: businesses creat- to drive technological advances and suppliers. We created robust public-pri- ing jobs through local public-private part- Here’s how it could work: “mother of all markets,” and which can technology installation, these states investment that might otherwise head vate partnerships. In just over a year, we nerships in an economic sector critical to ■■ The US currently spends about create all kinds of jobs for all kinds of might create a dramatically streamlined to another country. attracted 18 domestic and international our national strength and incentivized by $170 billion across agencies on vari- people in all kinds of regions in the permitting process for solar farms. Or ■■ The same analysis could be done for battery companies, projected to created the federal government. The models are ous economic development programs. country. In 2012, the private sector they could offer a partnership with spe- other regions — including the nation’s 60,000 private sector jobs in Michigan. there. The federal experiment with Race Take a small portion — say, 2% — of invested over $260 billion globally in cific private-sector solar energy produc- high wind areas, or the best places to With breathtaking speed, we built an to the Top worked. The state experiments those dollars and redirect the funds this sector, but the US is continually los- ers to build out the energy generation, manufacture clean energy or energy entire advanced battery “ecosystem” for with public-private partnerships are work- toward a Jobs Race to the Top competi- ing to China in the race to attract those and ensure strong demand for renew- efficiency products, or regions with the the purpose of electrifying the automobile. ing. Let’s combine the two and create mil- tion among the nation’s governors and investments. Unlike the US, China has able energy inside the state through a potential to develop biofuels, nuclear, If the states are the laboratories of lions of jobs in America. G regions. For it to have an effect, it must aggressively courted this sector. robust Renewable Energy Standard. Or hydro-energy, geothermal or waste-to- democracy, if the federal government and be the size of the education Race to the ■■ Devote the Jobs Race to the Top com- they could partner with their universi- energy technologies. Every region of the Congress want to respect the states, Wash- Top in 2009, which was initially $3.4 petition to rewarding the most effective ties and colleges to dramatically acceler- country has something to offer to our ington can take a lesson from what has billion. That competition convinced 48 public-private partnerships developed ate solar technology transfer from labs clean energy future, and every region been happening in Michigan. governors — Democrats and Republi- at the state and local level. Define “effec- to factories, and to train workers for could be creating all kinds of jobs for Comprehensive clean energy projects cans — to persuade 48 state legislatures tive” by the numbers of lasting jobs cre- those jobs. The regional governments their citizens right now — if the incen- require lots of local collaboration and pri- Jennifer M. Granholm is a Distinguished to change their education standards. If ated quickly. might lease land tracts at low rates, or tives were right. vate sector involvement. Without a finan- Practitioner of Law and Public Policy. a competition can stoke massive educa- ■■ Reward states that build on their even offer them for free. State govern- ■■ To get quick results, announce the com- cial carrot, the difficult regulatory changes She served as Michigan’s 47th gover- tional change across the nation, it can strengths, partner with the private sec- ments might provide incentives for solar petition in early 2014 and announce the at the local level would take years, if not nor from 2003 to 2011. Her TED Talk, “A also stoke job creation. Believe me, gov- tor and change public policy to drive production. Public utility commissions winners within six months. decades. As we saw with the education Clean Energy Proposal — Race to the ernors love to cut ribbons. jobs results. Take the Sunbelt states: in might offer ways to partner with the Race to the Top, a financial incentive in Top,” can be found at gspp.berkeley. ■■ Focus the competition on clean energy exchange for federal dollars to offset a Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- In Michigan we tried our own version these fiscally tight times can cause dra- edu/a-clean-energy-proposal job creation, which has been called the company’s upfront capital costs or new sion to streamline electric grid siting. of this race — focused on the lithium-ion matic changes at the state level. A clean

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Steven Raphael has a paper in the Octo- Alexander Gelber served as Deputy Assistant Jack Glaser is now serving as Associate Dean BLAS LUIS PÉREZ HENRÍQUEZ, Environmental ber issue of the American Economic Review Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Trea- of the Goldman School. He was recently Robert MacCoun’s recent publications Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading entitled, “Incarceration and Incapacitation: sury and later Acting Assistant Secretary for awarded a $1 million, 3-year grant from the include the following: “The Paths Not (Yet) Evidence from the 2006 Italian Collective Economic Policy and Acting Chief Economist National Science Foundation for which he is Taken: Lower Risk Alternatives to Full Market Towards a Low-Carbon Future, RFF Press, Pardon.” His book, The New Scarlett Letter? of the US Treasury. He worked on the entire co-principal investigator with Phillip Goff of Legalization of Cannabis,” in Something’s in December 2012 Negotiating the American Labor Market with a spectrum of microeconomic and macroeco- UCLA. GSPP’s Professor Steve Raphael is an the Air: Race and the Legalization of Mari- Criminal Record is forthcoming from the WE nomic issues, including the federal budget, associate investigator. The project aims to juana; “Cheap Talk and Credibility: the Con- SARU JAYARAMAN, Behind the Kitchen Door, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. the Fiscal Cliff, housing, Social Security, labor, develop a national database of police stop sequences of Confidence and Accuracy on ILR Press, February 2013 education, immigration, energy and environ- records, supplemented with demographic, Advisor Credibility and Persuasiveness,” in Solomon Hsiang published a research arti- ment, and health care policy. In recognition departmental, psychological, and other vari- Organizational Behavior and Human Decision cle in the journal Science titled “Quantifying of his service, Professor Gelber won the US ables to enable analyses aimed at better Processes; and “Moral Outrage and Oppo- the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict” Treasury Meritorious Service Award with a understanding and reducing racial and eth- sition to Harm Reduction,” in Criminal Law that unified findings from numerous fields citation for “exemplary service.” nic bias in policing. Professor Glaser was & Philosophy. DAVID KIRP, Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of science to show that climatic changes Professor Gelber gave several academic elected to the national governing Council of He serves as a member of BOTEC team pro- of a Great American School System and a Strat­ have repeatedly led to human conflict around seminars at UCSD, UC Davis, the All-Califor- the Society for the Psychological Study of viding technical assistance to the Washington egy for America’s Schools, Oxford University the world and throughout human history. nia Labor Economics Conference, the NBER Social Issues, and the Board of Directors of State Liquor Control Board (implementation The work was covered by over one hundred Summer Institute, and the Social Security the Center for Policing Equity, a consortium of I-502, state legalization of cannabis). From Press, April 2013 media outlets around the world including Retirement Research Consortium. He gave of American and Canadian police chiefs and 2012–2013 he was the inaugural chair of the CNN, the AP, NPR, AFP, the BBC, Reuters several speeches and appeared in several social scientists working to make policing Faculty Senate Committee on Demonstra- STEVEN RAPHAEL and Michael A. Stoll, Why and the Economist and he was invited to public venues on economic policy, including more equitable. tions and Student Actions at UC Berkeley. Are So Many Americans In Prison?, Russell explain the findings in a New York Times through the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Professor MacCoun’s talks have included Sage Foundation, May 2013 Op-Ed. Hsiang was also named the inaugural Committee statement, the National Congress Michael Nacht gave invited lectures on space the Society for Experimental Social Psychol- recipient of the new “Science for Solutions of American Indians, the Brookings Institution, policy at Washington’s Stimson Center and ogy (28 September 2013), San Francisco Sen- Award” by the American Geophysical Union the Kettering Foundation, Voice of America, on US national security policy at Harvard’s tencing Commission (24 July 2013), Summer for “significant contributions in the applica- and the local news station KPIX. Kennedy School of Government. His paper Institute in Political Psychology, Stanford Uni- JENNIFER BUSSELL, Corruption and Reform tion and use of Earth and space sciences to His paper, “Children’s Schooling and Par- “US and China in Space: Cooperation, Com- versity (19 July 2013) and the Wharton School, in India: Public Services in the Digital Age, solve societal problems.” ents’ Behavior: Evidence from the Head Start petition or Both?” was published in Septem- University of Pennsylvania (21 May 2013). Cambridge University Press, August 2013 Impact Study,” was published in the Journal ber 2013 by the Stimson Center. He will be Hilary Hoynes ended her two-year term of Public Economics. The paper shows that the co-principal investigator with colleagues Blas Pérez Henríquez’s book Environmental as a member of the advisory committee of when children are randomly chosen to enroll from UC San Diego on a three-year project Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading: the National Science Foundation and as a in Head Start, their parents invest substan- on “deterring complex threats” funded by Towards a Low Carbon Future, published by AMY LERMAN,The Modern Prison Paradox: national advisory committee member for the tially more in them. “Equalizing Outcomes the Minerva program of the US Department Resources for the Future Press and Rutledge Politics, Punishment, and Social Community, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars and Equalizing Opportunities” was released of Defense. He has been asked to chair the earlier this year, will be translated into Spanish Cambridge University Press, August 2013 in Health Policy Research Program. Profes- as a National Bureau of Economic Research Advisory Board of the newly-established UC by Mexico’s Center for Economic Research sor Hoynes was the keynote speaker for the Working Paper. It also shows that there are Berkeley Global Engagement Office, created and Teaching (CIDE). Southern California Conference in Applied substantial gains to economic welfare and to provide international education coordina- ROBERT REICH Microeconomics, 2013. She renewed a second economic equality from a more progressive tion across campus units. Amy Lerman’s new book, The Modern Prison , Aftershock: The Next Economy 3-year term as Co-Editor of the American tax system, since this puts more income in Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and Social and America’s Future, with new introduction, Economic Review. the hands of the lower-income parents whose On September 16, a reading of Professor Community, was published in August 2013 new graphs, and new afterward, Vintage, Professor Hoynes published an oped on resources have the greatest impact on their Robert Reich’s play, “Milton and Augusto,” by Cambridge University Press. September 2013 “Child Hunger and the Safety Net” in US children’s outcomes. “Earnings Adjustment an account of the 1975 meeting in Santiago, News and World Report. She is working on Frictions: Evidence from the Social Security Chile between Augusto Pinochet and econo- Larry Rosenthal and his colleagues at UCLA ROBERT M. STERN a pilot program for evaluating the EITC for Earnings Test” was released as a National mist Milton Freedman, was done under the and the Brookings Institution won a 3-year, Arvid Lukauskas, , and childless workers with MDRC. Her research Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper. auspices of the Center for Latin American $610,000 grant from the John D. and Cath- Gianni Zanini, Handbook of Trade Policy for on the effects of childhood receipt of food The paper shows that the elderly face sub- Studies, in acknowledgement the 40th anni- erine T. MacArthur Foundation. Among just Development, Oxford University Press, stamps on adult health was cited by the stantial barriers to adjusting their earnings to versary of the Pinochet coup. On September six grantees out of more than three hundred October 2013 New York Times, Bill Moyers and Company, Social Security policy changes, such as lack of 17, the movie “Inequality for All” was released applicants in MacArthur’s 2012–13 “How Hous- and the Atlantic. knowledge of the relevant policy changes or to overwhelmingly positive reviews (91% on ing Matters” competition, Rosenthal’s team SARAH ANZIA, Timing and Turnout: How She presented research on the “Safety Net difficulty in finding new work arrangements. Rotten Tomatoes). A clip from recent PBS will study “Irrational Exuberance at City Hall: in the Great Recession” at the National Press “Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and NewsHour interview about the documen- Local Government Resilience during Hous- Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups, Club and research on “Food Stamps and Wives” was accepted at the Review of Eco- tary is available in the webcast section of ing Booms and Busts.” The research project University of Chicago Press, December 2013 Consumption” at the Brookings Institution. nomics and Statistics. New data is used to the GSPP website. http://gspp.berkeley.edu/ will explore connections among municipal show that taxation may have only modest events/webcasts fiscal health, local public choice, and drastic impact on husbands’ and wives’ joint deci- fluctuations in real estate markets. sions about how much to earn.

12 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2013 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 13 students Municipal Waste into Biofuel? students EDF Climate Corps Fellowship

By Anna Scodel MPP Candidate ’14 stantial economic benefits to Califor- By Kate Daniel MPP Candidate ’14 to pay the costs of an energy project over THE LOW CARBON FUEL STANDARD nians. For instance, idled oil refineries THIS PAST SUMMER, I HAD the privilege time as an assessment on their property (LCFS) mandates a 10% reduction in the provide pre-existing infrastructure that of working with two organizations that tax bill. The mechanism addresses many carbon intensity of the California’s fuel could be modified to produce advanced are fostering a green economy. Along with of the key obstacles to energy projects: it mix by 2020. Established in 2007 in sup- biofuels. Furthermore, delivering this fuel two of my GSPP classmates — Leo Covis provides up-front capital, carries low- port of the state’s climate change goals, the from other states or countries increases and Xiaoding Zhuo — I joined the Envi- interest rates, allows for long-term financ- standard phases in gradual reductions in-state fuel costs. ronmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate ing (up to 20 years), and may even address from 2011–2020. A number of scenarios In Spring 2014, I will work with Envi- Corps. Climate Corps is a key example of split incentive problems, as landlords could achieve these goals. The LCFS is ronmental Entrepreneurs to explore the EDF’s business-friendly strategy: EDF would be allowed to pass property tax technology-neutral, which means it is role of municipal solid waste (MSW) in deploys Fellows to host organizations to expenses on to tenants, who will still ben- likely that a combination of increased use conversion to liquid fuel. MSW is one of identify opportunities to save energy, and efit overall from the energy savings. of electric vehicles, high-tech fuel cells, the most promising feedstocks for therefore money. Whether Apple or a PACE is an important policy tool and low-carbon fuels will meet the stan- advanced biofuel development in Califor- small public school district, the fresh, cre- because it aligns environmental and finan- dard. ICF International recently estimated nia — it is already aggregated, and much ative perspective of a Climate Corps fel- cial incentives in a progressive way. Unfor- that CA will require about 340 million of it sits unused in landfills. Current waste low can help the host organization get tunately, the growth in PACE programs gallons of advanced biofuel (biofuels that policies consider conversion to fuel to be past financial or cultural barriers to stalled when the Federal Housing Finance achieve at least a 50% reduction in carbon equivalent to disposal in a landfill. Small energy improvements. Agency issued a decision that Fannie Mae emissions over a petroleum baseline) in policy changes could mean cleaner fuel for My placement at Greenwise Joint Ven- and Freddie Mac should not underwrite 2020 to comply with LCFS. the state, less waste in landfills, and sub- ture in Sacramento varied a bit from the any mortgages with a PACE lien. This stantial economic development. It is criti- typical Climate Corps engagement. Green- action stymied residential PACE, and has cal, however, that any advanced biofuel wise is a regional non-profit focused on resulted in some uncertainty within the Local production of advanced development does not create unintended building a green economy in and around industry about how to move forward with environmental consequences. My project Sacramento. Instead of identifying energy- PACE programs. biofuels could offer substantial aims to uncover the economic, environ- savings opportunities for my host itself, This challenge for PACE has reinforced Kate Daniel with Sacramento mental, and social implications of MSW my goal was to identify how it could two valuable lessons for me as a policy stu- Mayor Kevin Johnson economic benefits to Californians. conversion to fuel. encourage other entities to conduct energy dent: first, the public sector has very broad As California moves towards a low-car- retrofits or install renewable generation. objectives with sometimes competing maximizes the public good. PACE pro- This fuel could presumably be pro- bon future, a variety of technologies will My work focused on how to promote goals; and second, that conflicting or grams that have retooled to focus on com- duced outside of California, and certainly contribute to a cleaner transportation sec- Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) unclear policy signals can reduce the effec- mercial properties, which are not subject some of it will be. However, local produc- tor. Perhaps fuel created from waste will financing for energy efficiency and renew- tiveness of those policies. This is one of the to FHFA authority, have proven very suc- tion of advanced biofuels could offer sub- play a part. G able energy projects. Pioneered by Cisco many challenges of policy analysts — to cessful. The solution for residential energy Devries (MPP ’00) for the City of Berkeley, identify such conflicts and find solutions financing lies just in reach of the next PACE financing enables property owners so that private actors act in a way that GSPP policy entrepreneur. G from the desk of Martha Chavez Exciting Fall Semester!

include over 50 majors ranging from Biol- ing the Conflict and Security Policy Schnur, who discussed what policymak- lishing in Public Policy,” provides students agencies, foundations, consulting firms, Martha Chavez is ogy, Drama, Electrical Engineering, Group, Inequality Action Group, Gold- ers need to know about political messag- with the unique opportunity to utilize think tanks, social enterprises and large the Assistant Dean Finance, International Peace Studies, Lin- man-Haas Collective, South Asians in ing to win elections, build coalitions, and writing, editing, communication, and for-profit businesses, and topics include for Academic Affairs guistics, Mathematics, Political Science, Public Policy Group, and Thinking About move their agendas forward. The Conflict design skills through blog entries, indi- poverty, health, education, women’s rights, and Psychology. Approximately 20% of the Privilege and Policy Group. There are also and Security Policy Group organized a vidual opinion pieces, and contributing to energy and the environment, agriculture, incoming class are international students 19 continuing leadership clubs that are screening of the documentary film The the various stages of the PMJ publishing microfinance, corporate social responsi- THE FALL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE times from Australia, Canada, Chile, China, being led by Goldman students. Through Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life process--article selection, editing, layout, bility, and human rights. These are just a of year. We get to welcome another new Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Japan and the clubs, students launch a wide variety of Robert S. McNamara, a “disquieting distribution, blogging, and website devel- sampling of the many exciting activities amazing cohort of 80+ Master of Public Mexico, and 23% are diverse students of exciting activities ranging from policy and powerful essay on war, rationality, opment. IPPG’s class, “International Pub- that are organized and led by Goldman Policy students who are among the very from underrepresented communities. discussions to internship panels to net- and human nature.” lic Policy Speaker Series,” exposes students students. For a complete listing of GSPP best, brightest, and most diverse individu- The Fall is also a time when students are working events with alumni. PolicyMatters Journal (PMJ) and the to the many different facets of develop- student clubs, visit: gspp.berkeley.edu/ als. This year’s class represents over 50 uni- energized to test new ideas, and many will Recently, the Politics in Public Policy International Public Policy Group (IPPG) ment in the international context. The student-life/gspp-student-groups. G versities throughout the United States and launch new student leadership clubs. This Group (PiPP) hosted renowned cam- both have launched graduate student led class convenes expert practitioners from world, and their academic backgrounds Fall we have five new student clubs includ- paign and political strategist, Dan courses. PMJ’s class, “Writing and Pub- academia, international development

14 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2013 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 15 GSPP Board Dinner: event highlights A Clean Energy Proposal Goldman School distinguished practitioner Cal Day 2013: Makers v. Takers: A and former Michigan governor Jennifer Sensible Way to Debate the Role Granholm addressed “A Clean Energy Pro- of Government? posal — Race to the Top” at the spring Dean Henry E. Brady, Professor Hilary advisory board meeting. Hoynes and Professor Cybelle Fox dis- cussed inequality in America in terms of Below, left photo (from left): Advisory board the rhetoric of the last election cycle, its members James D. Marver (MPP ’74; PhD rationale, and resulting impacts on bi-par- ’78), UCB Vice Chancellor John Wilton and tisanship, civility and public discussion. Dr. Douglas Goldman with Governor Jennifer Richard “Dick” Beahrs (BA ’68), Center on Granholm. Civility & Democratic Engagement advi- sory board member, moderated the panel. Below, right photo: Motion picture executive The event was sponsored by the Center on Sid Ganis, board member John DeLuca and Civility & Democratic Engagement. former UC Student Regent Jonathan Stein (MPP/JD ’13).

Commencement 2013 Amory B. Lovins, physicist and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute addressed the Goldman School class of 2013 at its commencement.

From left: Jeff Bellisario, Holly Axe, Linda Alves, Wally Abrazaldo, Andrew Abordonado.

UCDC Reception The Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement and the Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service co-hosted a recep- tion honoring recipients of their UC in Washington DC fellowships. At the reception, UC in Washington alumni met with newly selected Fall 2013 Fellows. Wildavsky Forum Professor Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University addressed, “The ObamaCare Challenge: Partisan Conflict and the Implementation of a Nationwide Reform in Fifty States,” at the 2013 Wildavsky Forum. The Wildavasky Forum is sponsored annually by the Gold- man School and honors the memory of Aaron Wildavsky, GSPP’s founding dean.

From left to right: Chanel Adikuono (UCDC Alumna); Matsui Fellows Katherine CCDE board member Jesse Ante (UCB BS ’68; Nguyen and Tara Yarlagadda; CCDE Fellows Michelle Nelson, Andrew Ayala and MS ’70) with UCDC alumna Chanel Adikuono. Michael Tarkington; and Elizabeth Marsolais (UCDC Alumna).

16 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2013 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 17 Joseph Castro Named President of Fresno State alumni Stuart Cohen

ON AUGUST 1, 2013, Joseph closely with my colleagues to graduate as close to 100% of our STUART COHEN (MPP ’97) IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF party certification for buildings, called GreenTRIP, that supports Castro (MPP ’90) assumed his students as possible and do so in a timely way. By doing this, we Transform, which advocates for public transportation and walk- cities and developers that plan for low-traffic, low-carbon devel- post as president of the Califor- will help to transform their lives and strengthen the Central Val- able communities. He spoke with Policy Notes about coalition opments. GreenTRIP certification is given to projects that cut nia State University, Fresno. Joe ley economy. building, how transportation is linked with opportunities for low traffic, with incentives like free transit passes or CarSharing on- was previously a vice chancellor income people and the lessons learned from surviving his first year site, instead of excessive parking. This certification helps fosters at the University of California, What do you see as the key public policy chal- at GSPP. community support to get the best developments approved while San Francisco. He spoke with lenges for higher education in the next decade? giving property owners a marketing edge. Policy Notes about the GSPP The most significant challenge facing public higher education You co-founded Transform in 1997. What was your toolkit and what it means to institutions is to find a new balance of access to a larger popula- initial vision for starting the organization? Which areas of the transportation sectors seem come home to CA’s central valley. tion of diverse students while better managing costs. Advances As a cyclist, I had come to understand how 60 years of subdivi- most promising vis-a-vis green business? in technology and more innovative approaches to delivering sions, strip malls and highway-exit corporate parks were devastat- Transportation has so much excess built into the system — with Have you always had an interest content provide opportunities for a new equilibrium in higher ing our country. Planning for all this sprawl meant public trans- so many cars and most cars having just the driver. This leaves in higher education? education. Berkeley and Stanford are at the leading edge in portation was being bled dry while highway projects got the green tremendous growth potential for new technology-enabled car- I was the first in my family to attend a university when I enrolled achieving this new balance. Fresno State has also been success- light. Huge numbers of people — especially low-income families, and ride-sharing. Getaround.com is a great example, allowing at Berkeley in 1984. This opportunity completely transformed ful. I want to position Fresno State to achieve a new higher level youth and many seniors — were cut off from opportunity. individuals to make money by leaving their car at home (for my life. I realized this almost immediately and decided during of excellence and diversity within our fiscal realities. I will invite I’d always wanted to reverse these trends. But turning the tide someone else). With just 1 shared car needed for every 10 people my junior year at Cal to pursue a career in higher education private individuals, foundations and businesses to invest more on sprawl had became a true mission for me when I started the potential efficiencies are enormous. policy. I was fortunate to be admitted to the Sloan Fellowship in Fresno State. In return, we will provide more highly skilled working on global warming with Nancy Skinner in 1993. Trans- Program in 1987 [now PPIA], which helped prepare me for graduates and do more to help strengthen the economy. We will portation is responsible for 38% of California’s greenhouse gas admission to the Goldman School in 1988. continue to educate the next generation of leaders. emissions and the idea that all this driving could also devastate this planet, flood much of Bangladesh and whole islands was a What aspects of your GSPP training have you found You grew up in CA’s central valley. What does it bit too much for me. most useful in your roles at UCSF and now as you mean to you to “come home” and serve as Cal take up the leadership of Cal State Fresno? State Fresno’s next president? What are the key ways that Transform I met many of my closest friends and work colleagues at GSPP. The opportunity to serve as President of the largest and oldest has grown and evolved? Todd Greenspan (MPP ’84) was my first supervisor in the public university in my home region is a dream come true. I grew Our early coalition-building helped change this cycle of sprawl. UC State Governmental Relations Office in Sacramento and up 40 miles from the campus and I can get to every town in the In 1998 we convinced our regional agencies to do a “smart Claudia Martinez (MPP ’97) and Brian Rivas (MPP ’92) have region without a GPS. I will be the eighth president in Fresno growth scenario” that would focus growth in walkable, compact worked closely with me over the years. I was also Daniel Stone’s State’s 102 year history and the first Californian, first Valley town and city centers, and then to focus investments to help sup- (MPP ’90) best man in his wedding. native and first Latino to serve. The response to my appointment port that growth. We continued this work at the regional scale, The entire GSPP “tool kit” has been essential throughout my throughout the Central Valley and state has been incredibly building coalitions that helped gain more than $6 billion dollars career. I have used virtually every part of it in every job. The eco- positive. Over 5,000 people from my hometown in Hanford wel- for expanding public transportation and bike lanes in the Bay nomics, organizations, law and policy analysis core courses and comed me back a few weeks ago as graduation speaker at my Area. Other regions in California soon followed suit. Professor Martin Trow’s higher education policy course have high school. I was blown away by the outpouring of support. While transportation decisions happen at the regional scale, been most helpful to me. As I assume the presidency at Fresno Using my own life path as an example, I reminded the young the only way to truly garner the tremendous benefits of compact, State, I will draw upon all of my experiences, especially those people in attendance that their future is bright — even if they walkable communities happens if the whole region shifts. In 2006 from studying and working (with Eugene Smolensky and Lee live in a small house, if their family has little money, or if they I co-founded the Great Communities Collaborative, a unique Friedman as Associate Dean in 1993–97) at GSPP. are the first to imagine going to college. I receive many calls and partnership of foundations and Bay Area non-profits. In 2007 I What aspects of your GSPP training emails each day from people of all backgrounds offering to help also co-founded a statewide coalition, ClimatePlan, that pushed have been most useful to you? What do you see as your top priorities as you step me and the campus. I have never experienced anything like this for “smart growth blueprints” that eventually became law. The After my first year at GSPP, very few policy problems seem over- up to this new challenge? before. On my first visit to Fresno as President-Designate, I went following year, the landmark law, SB 375,was passed. Each of whelming! The training has given me the tools to add to crunch My overall top priority at Fresno State will be to help guide the to visit a business leader at his home. As I walked from my car California’s major regions now focus their transportation plan- data and develop truly implementable policy proposals. One of institution to new heights of success. I want to raise awareness to his house, I saw him — a 95 year old man — in the front door- ning with the specific goal of reducing driving per capita to meet my favorite reports, “Windfall for All,” used census track data of how great the institution is and strengthen further its academic way of his house get up out of his wheelchair and raise his arms climate targets for 2020 and 2035. We now have a Sacramento and cost modeling to show how Bay Area neighborhoods with and athletic programs. Advances in technology provide many up pumping them in the air. We had never met before, but he office and build statewide networks for change. the greatest access to public transit had transportation costs that exciting opportunities to enhance academic programs while pos- and I share a bond of growing up in the Central Valley. He were $5,450 lower, and reduced their greenhouse gases by 42%, sibly achieving greater efficiencies. Over 70% of Fresno State’s pledged his support for me and I will do whatever I can to sup- How have you seen Transform’s strategic priorities relative to other parts of the region. We used maps illustrating students are first generation to college students. I will work port him and his family. Go Bears! Go Dogs! G intersect with green business and innovation? this correlation during our state advocacy days, creating maps to We were frustrated that developers that were trying to be green match the region of the particular legislator. It has helped change were often stunted by outdated codes that required excessive the frame of public transit from a system that is wasteful and parking, especially for affordable housing. So we created a third- requires subsidy to one that helps families live affordably.G

18 POLICY NOTES | FALL 2013 GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY 19 CLASS NOTES

Claudia Johnson (MPP ’92) was invited to Richard Raya (MPP ’96) is now the Execu- Amy (Boone) Vierra (MPP ’05) and her hus- Jamie Allison (MPP ’06) was appointed to the speak at the first legal aid convening in MA tive Director of Youth Radio. He and his wife band welcomed their second child, Natalie Citizen’s Committee on Community Develop- for public interest lawyers in May 2013. She Marisa also welcomed Johnny Emrys Raya to Bella, on August 21. Amy also recently became ment by Edwin M. Lee, Mayor of San Francisco. was a co-panelist with Peter Edelman in the the family, born August 31, 2013. Deputy Director of the California Ocean Pro- kick off session, and then she talked about tection Council — a state agency charged Randy Hill (MPP ’86) was appointed in April the changes in poverty demographics and David Agrawal (MPP ’07) married Olga Mal- with protecting and sustainably managing 2013 to serve as a Judge on the Environmen- the implications for legal nonprofits. She also kova on June 30, 2013 in Norwich, CT. California’s coasts and ocean. tal Appeals Board (EAB) of the US Environ- participated in a technology panel with MRLI mental Protection Agency. The EAB is the and VLSP of Boston. Elizabeth Garcia (MPP ’04) decided to enroll Lin Tien (MPP ’07) recently joined Oaktree final decision maker on administrative appeals Claudia also participated in the Equal Jus- in UCSF’s Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitio- Capital Management as a credit analyst in under all of EPA’s major environmental stat- tice Conference 2013 and was a presenter ner Program after a great run with policy work the US senior loan fund. He is responsible for utes. Randy has previously served in a vari- in three workshops. One workshop looked in the City and County of San Francisco and evaluating all of the fund’s investments in the ety of legal and executive positions at EPA. at language access for those in court with- with the support of several Goldman Alumni. technology and chemical sector. out lawyers, with Judge Fisher from New She received her Registered Nurse License Natasha Avendaño García (MPP ’08/PhD ’11) York Courts, Bonnie Hough of the California in July and looks forward to the Masters in Doug Spencer (MPP ’08) was hired this fall as has worked for the Colombian Tax and Cus- AOC, and Ana Maria Garcia of Neighborhood Science of Nursing degree in 2015. an Associate Professor of Law & Public Policy toms Administration (DIAN) as Adviser to the Legal Services. Another panel looked at the at the University of Connecticut. Tax Commissioner since September 2011. Her technology of the feature to facilitate legal Martha Ture (MPP ’04) is retiring from the main role was as the Technical Coordinator of language translation, in partnership with Jeff California Public Utilities Commission at the Mitchell Bard (MPP ’83) has just published the 2012 Tax Reform. Proposed by the gov- Hogue from New York. end of 2013. Martha and Jim will continue to his first novel, After Anatevka — Tevye ernment and enacted by Congress in Decem- Beller Wedding In November, Claudia will present three play music, read, write, garden, travel, study, Goes to Palestine. The story follows Sho- ber 2012, the tax reform was the biggest and From left: David Beller (MPP ’07), Sundar Chari (MPP ’07), Adam Lang (MPP ’07) with workshops at the ABA/National Legal Aid and do things which they hope are contribu- lom Aleichem’s timeless character, Tevye most important reform the country had in daughter, Eliana, Deborah Lang (MPP ’07), Aaron Edwards (MPP ’07), Elena Livanis. and Defender Conference — one topic is on tions to planetary well-being, community, and the milkman, as he moves his family from the past 30 years. It introduced changes to cultural competency in legal services, the neighborhood creativity. Russia to Palestine. Tevye, the wisecracking, tax legislation that improved equity within other one is on the growth of suburban pov- Bible-quoting man of God, tells the story of the system, generated better conditions to James Savage (MPP ’78) is a professor of Carla Javits (MPP ’85) has worked at the Rob- erty and strategies legal nonprofits can use Anne Hartman (MPP/JD ’96) continues at his family’s new life against the backdrop of formal employment, and simplified the struc- politics at the University of Virginia. Cam- erts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) to reach those communities, and the other her long time firm of Goodin MacBride in the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the ture of some taxes to improve efficiency in bridge University Press will publish his new for seven years, giving her a chance to work one is on technology with focus on online San Francisco, where she is now a partner. Holy Land prior to the establishment of the compliance and collection. After her defini- book, Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institu- at the intersection of public policy and busi- forms — focusing on a project that is led by At the firm, she represents whistleblowers State of Israel. tive role, she was designated in July 2013 as tions: Coalition State Building after Saddam. ness, which has been eye-opening in terms Bet Zedek in Los Angeles. in False Claims Act litigation, filing actions Deputy Director of Operational Research and A portion of the book was written while Jim of the very different perspectives and moti- In August, Claudia did a national webinar on behalf of the government against those Merav Zafary-Odiz (MPP ’00) and her family Economic Analysis, a department within the was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at vators at play, but also the opportunity to on Technology for the Unrepresented — that commit fraud on government programs: moved to Vienna, Austria, in mid August 2013. Tax Administration responsible for develop- the United States Institute of Peace. Jim is align around some social objectives — like job where she shared emerging technologies Medicare fraud, defense contract fraud, nat- On October 16, Merav assumed the position ing the business intelligence models for the the 2013 recipient of the Aaron Wildavsky creation and workforce development. REDF that legal aid and courts can use to enhance, ural resources fraud, and many different of Israel’s Ambassador to the International operation of control, auditing, risk assess- Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement has had a GSPP intern every year — each one improve services and outcomes in the legal kinds of government purchasing programs. Atomic Energy Agency and the Preparatory ment, economic studies and analysis. in the field of public finance, presented by contributing analyses with immediate value context. https://www.lsntap.org/blogs/online- Successful whistleblowers are awarded a Commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban the Association of Budgeting and Financial — although previous to her arrival REDF only resources-and-innovative-technologies- percentage of amounts recovered by the Treaty Organization. Kris Organ (MPP ’85) is now retired and works Management. Aaron Wildavsky, the founder used MBA interns. GSPP continues to be a assist-unrepresented government, creating a public-private part- occasionally with his brother Larry on civil of GSPP, was also a founder of ABFM. Aaron tremendous resource and it is exciting to see Lastly, Claudia was a member of the nership to uncover and combat fraud that Mark Sawicki (MPP ’03) was recently rights lawsuits. He moved to 99 Redwood served on Jim’s dissertation committee. more interplay between the policy and busi- working group, led by the Self Rep- has led to the recovery of billions in govern- appointed as the new Community & Eco- Road, Fairfax, CA, 94930. He can be con- ness schools at Cal — hopefully more to come. resented Litigant Network, that pub- ment funds. The success of the federal False nomic Development Director with the City tacted at [email protected]. Doug Detling (MPP ’73) retired September lished Principles and Best Practices for Claims Act has also led to the passage of of Vallejo, CA, with responsibility for Plan- 30 as Human Resources Director for the City Brian Turner (MPP ’06) recently left five years Access-Friendly Court Electronic Fil- state and even local False Claims Act, as well ning, Building, Economic Development and Trish Koman (MPP ’94), as part of a multi- of Medford after more than 13 years of ser- doing climate policy and federal affairs for the ing: http://tig.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/ as whistleblower-incentive programs at the Asset Management. disciplinary team, received national recogni- vice and more than 38 years of public service California Air Resources Board to begin doing Best-Pratices.pdf. She has been working Securities Exchange Commission, the Inter- tion from US Health Resources and Services in California and Oregon. He continues to climate policy, federal affairs, and about a hun- on an e-filing project in Minnesota to make nal Revenue Service, and the Commodities Beau Kilmer (MPP ’00) is a senior policy Administration and Association of Schools serve as Chairman of the Board of the HRA dred other things as deputy executive director easy document assembly forms e-fileable in Future Trading Commission. researcher at the RAND Corporation, where and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) for a VEBA Trust, a three-state health benefits trust at the California Public Utilities Commission. Hennepin County, using LawHelp Interactive, he co-directs the RAND Drug Policy Research “Promising Practice” for her innovative teach- serving more than 40,000 local government the platform she manages at Pro Bono Net. Kenji Shiraishi (MPP ’10) and his wife, Center. His co-authored book on marijuana ing at the University of Michigan School of participants from Oregon, Washington and Hosung Sohn (MPP ’10/PhD ’13) received This project is being watched as it is the first Ayako, welcomed a daughter, Hanaka, in legalization was published by Oxford Univer- Public Health, “Michigan Engaging Commu- Idaho. Doug also continues to serve on the an “Honorable Mention” in the Association project that does this in the US. December 2012. sity Press and his essays on marijuana pol- nity Through the Classroom.” International Public Management Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management’s icy have been published by CNN, New York for Human Resources Oregon. (APPAM) 2013 competition recognizing Gretta Goldenman (MPP ’89/JD ’90) is in Debbie Gordon (MPP ’89) has joined the Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. Michael Look (MPP ’85) continues in his the best dissertations in public policy the process of transitioning back to Berkeley Carnegie Endowment for International Peace He continues to love living in Oakland with position as Manager of the Community Sundar Chari (MPP ’07) is glad to be back in and management. for retirement after a fascinating 23 years in as a Senior Associate in the Energy & Cli- his wife Erin Kilmer Neel. Development Block Grant program with the Bay Area after six years in Chicago and is Brussels working on environmental law and mate Program. Her policy research cen- the City of Seattle. He recently completed now the Director of Innovation & Technology Kris Homme (MPP ’92/MPH ’96) initiated a policy studies for the EU institutions. She ters on emerging unconventional oils (See: Alex Marthews (MPP ’01) is living in Belmont, a two-year term as President of the North- for Education for Change, a charter school resolution to discourage dentists from using thinks that it would be great to be in touch carnegieendowment.org/specialprojects/ MA, with his wife Catherine and daughters west Association of Community Develop- network in Oakland. The role includes lead- mercury dental amalgam, which was passed with any other GSPP students who remember CarnegieOilInitiative/) Unbelievably, she and Cordelia and Elizabeth. He runs a small ment Managers and is currently Secretary/ ing technology-based learning initiatives by the Berkeley city council September 17, her from the years she was doing her dual her GSPP classmate-husband (Eric Patashnik, nonprofit, Digital Fourth, which opposes the Treasurer of the National Community Devel- and supporting the development of new 2013. Kris has been disabled with chronic degree (1986–1990). MPP ’89) are about to become empty nesters! surveillance state (www.warrantless.org). opment Association. school models. mercury poisoning since the mid 1990s.

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Michelle Angier (MPP ’05) became Director Katharine Gale (MPP ’92) served as a Policy Ben Ceja (MPP ’98), Zara Bukirin (MPP ’10) WITH THE END OF THE YEAR BEARING and what they can do through IPA and and not metrics. To that end, board mem- of WIN at eBay Inc, in April. WIN is eBay’s Director in 2013 with the United States Inter- and Roy Morales (MPP ’87) are playing an down and budget planning in full swing, APA projects. bers are busy planning events for students CEO-sponsored global initiative to enable agency Council on Homelessness. Her areas of integral role as the City of Los Angeles tran- it is time for alums to start scouring their Helping students is a key function of the and fellow alumni at the regional level. women to have lasting careers at eBay Inc. responsibility included family homelessness, sitions to Performance Based Budgeting. In At eBay’s 3rd annual Global WIN Summit in research, and performance measurement. She their respective roles as Assistant City Admin- budgets for money for summer interns. Alumni Association Board of Directors Rotating out of leadership roles are Co- early October, Michelle hosted Sheryl Sand- also supported the agency’s regional work istrative Officer, Assistant Budget Director While roughly 70 percent of Goldman and the board’s commitment to students Chairs Jackie Bender and Stuart Drown berg as keynote speaker (and took the stage in Northern California, Arizona and Nevada. for Mayor Eric Garcetti, and Legislative Ana- School students are paid for their intern- is one reason that the Student Services and Vice Chair Christian Griffith. Rob will several times herself) before the audience of She leaves the Administration at the end of lyst for the City Council, Ben, Zara, and Roy ships, the remaining 30 percent are Committee drew the most members dur- encore his role as Secretary/Treasurer. over 400 global leaders in Scottsdale, AZ. the year to return to Focus Strategies, a Cali- are helping redesign the City’s budget pro- unpaid. Money understandably is tight in ing October’s alumni board meeting. The board welcomes new members fornia-based consulting firm she co-founded cess, providing guidance to departments, many non-profit organizations and in gov- At the meeting, the board elected new Shelly Gehshan (MPP ’85), Adam Nguyen Elisabeth Hensley (MPP ’05), Denise Bradby in 2011 to help communities use local data to and will be developing recommendations (MPP ’88), and Christina Stearns (MPP/JD increase the impact of housing and services. for the Mayor and Council to consider for ernment, but if at all possible, for those officers: Mark Hoffman (MPP ’75), as (MPP ’07), Clare Nolan (MPP ’03), ’08) will be part of the new P-12 Center in the 2014–15 budget. alums offering internships, let’s find ave- Chair; Sarah Sattelmeyer (MPP/MPH Enrique Ruacho (MPP ’12), and Kathy the Education and Workforce Development Elaine Hussey (MPP ’70) is having a wonder- nues to make it pay. Paying the students is ’11), as Vice Chair and Rob Letzler (MPP Wilson (MPP ’11). Division (part of the Social, Statistical, and ful time in retirement and recently celebrated Steven Rosenbaum (MPP ’79) was named a a way to ensure that the internship is of ’03/PhD ’07) as Secretary/Treasurer. The school and the alumni association Environmental Sciences Business Unit) at her 45th Cal ’68 reunion and her 50th Fair- John & Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer at Berkeley value not only to the student, but for your Mark, who was re-elected to a second would like to thank everyone who par- RTI International, a multidisciplinary research fax High School (Los Angeles) reunion. She Law after 25 years of adjunct teaching. He organization based in North Carolina with the notes that it was great to see everyone and also received the annual Eleanor Swift Pub- organization as well. board term, led the board’s efforts to ticipated as a candidate and everyone who lead of Karen Levesque (PhD ’04). Previously remember the sixties! Go Bears — Go Lions! lic Service Award in May. Steve is continuing Internships are just one way alumni can develop a strategic plan, aided by Rob, voted in the election. It is an important employed by Berkeley-based MPR Associates, his second year as a Visiting Senior Lecturer help Goldman students. We also can help who played the lead role in developing a contribution to the school and to your fel- Inc., which merged with RTI International Enrique Ruacho (MPP ’12) is enjoying Santa at Univ. of Washington (UW) School of Law, connect them to jobs and give them the dashboard for the plan. The board empha- low alumni. G in May 2013, they will continue to conduct Barbara as District Representative for State where he teaches a course in human rights chance to find out about an organization sized that their efforts focus on people, research on a wide range of P-12 education Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson. But most advocacy and comparative clinical law tutorial topics for their clients from the downtown importantly, he is looking forward to serv- for master’s students from Central and South- Berkeley office of RTI International. ing fellow GSPPers on the Alumni Board! east Asia. In early 2014, he will co-pilot a UW clinic devoted to business and human rights. from the desk of Annette Doornbos Andy Manale (MPP ’81) has left what remains of the policy shop at EPA to establish his own consulting business on environmental policy Building GSPP’s Future: The Campaign for the Goldman School GSPPers in Philanthropy analysis. In the interim, he hiked the length of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela port for faculty and students. The cam- We will complete the campaign by mid- in France and Spain. Expect soon a book Annette Doornbos is paign is also setting the stage for the next 2014. Alumni and friends of the Goldman on his experiences and ruminations on the the Assistant Dean of facility expansion, all while supporting School now have new choices for determin- ancient pilgrimage route. He continues his External Relations and our growing menu of scholarly and pro- ing how they want their gift to impact the interest in soil and water issues whereby he Development grammatic activities. School. Giving to the Dean’s Opportunity has served as chair of the Science and Policy Committee of the Soil and Water Conserva- The Campaign for the Goldman School Fund will support our present activities and tion Society and now serves as the president supports excellence at the heart of the ever-expanding program for today’s stu- of the National Capital Chapter of the soci- AGAINST A BACKDROP OF DECREASED School’s mission, with priorities targeting: dents. Giving to an endowed fund, e.g. one ety. He still manages Shizumi Dance Theatre support from the State of California of the many funds named for a faculty in his free time. (down to 12% of the overall campus bud- Graduate Student Fellowships member, is a vote for keeping the School on get), in 2007 UC Berkeley launched the GSPP now has twenty-three endowed a path of growth and ever-greater influence quiet, leadership phase of a capital cam- funds for recruiting top MPP candidates, and prominence. Visit gspp.berkeley.edu/ paign, Thanks to Berkeley…. For its part, capitalized with gifts ranging from $20,000 make-a-gift for the full list of funds. GSPP launched the Campaign for the to $1.5M. Whether it is a gift for fellowships and Goldman School and began securing its the long-term support for students they own leadership gifts. Endowed Chairs represent or to ensure that the Dean has the The Campaign for the Goldman School and Professorships funds need to take advantage of the creativ- puts the fundraising focus on providing Three funds of $1M–$2M each for chairs ity and drive of our academic community, for the long-term, securing resources for and professorships offer our prestigious fac- the takeaway is simply to make sure you both bricks and mortar and endowed ulty a reliable source of research funds and cast your philanthropic vote and give. Back row: Matt Ingram (MPP ’11), Angie Chen (MPP ’07), Justina Cross (MPP ’10), Vivian Pacheco (MPP ’11) funds. To date, our campaign has raised also support graduate student fellowships. $28M and launched 30 new endowed Front row: Balu Iyer (MPP ’00), Cecelia Echeverria (MPP ’97), Jamie Allison (MPP funds, established with gifts in the Facilities Expansion ’06), Marian Mulke (MPP ’89) $10,000–$2M range. The generosity of The campaign has secured $8.5M for the our donors is dramatically changing the first phase of fundraising for a major Annette Doornbos landscape for endowed, long-term sup- new facility. [email protected]

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GLOBAL AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS AT THE GOLDMAN SCHOOL had an active By Blas Pérez Henríquez and Leo Covis Summer and Fall 2013, hosting 1–2 week customized programs for groups from around Environmental Alumni Dinner - April 25, 2013 the world: Jiangsu Province CEOs from China, Delta State Legislators from Nigeria, Upcoming Speaker Series With the student-led Environmental Policy Group, CEPP co-sponsored Gold- and Kochi University of Technology faculty and administrators from Japan, to name a The Center for Environmental Public Pol- man’s annual Environmental Alumni Dinner. Professor Lee Friedman opened few. Bringing groups like these to GSPP provides immense value by facilitating the Open-Enrollment icy hosted several informative seminars in the event with a talk about Goldman’s environmental work and his own work School’s global presence and impact, giving our MPP students access to international Programs the 2013 spring semester. on California’s climate program. He mentioned the research he conducted for internships and projects, and gaining perspectives from practitioners around the world. In March, Mark Trexler (MPP ’82/PhD the non-partisan group Next10 and his conclusion that California’s long-term We are thankful for the opportunity to facilitate dialogues with leaders from around ’89) asked, “What’s the Real Problem goal of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels The Art of Leadership: the world ranging from leadership, innovation, corruption, and inequality. Our goal is with Climate Change Policy?” Mark is a by the year 2050 will be tougher, less efficient, and more expensive without a Just Say ‘YES’ to exchange knowledge, enhance our global learning, and create a commitment towards seasoned climate policy expert and now significant shift toward electrification. This would require a revamping of our May 5–9, 2014 G a common good. This program, led by heads the online project The Climatogra- electricity pricing structure, an expansion of our carbon trading program, and former Michigan Gover- phers. In his talk, he explained how the increased market certainty for clean tech investors. nor Jennifer Granholm, risks associated with climate change do The keynote speaker of the event was Goldman alumnus Francisco DeVries will focus on strategic not trigger the brain’s normal risk aver- (MPP ’00) Cisco innovated the concept of Property Assessed Clean Energy decision making and sion response because the consequences (PACE), which was named one of the top 20 “world-changing” ideas by Scien- leadership practices with are unclear and in the future. Mark tific American magazine in 2009. the goal of honing and warned that comprehensive public policy To find out more about CEPP’s faculty and affiliates, current visiting scholars, enhancing skills that will may not come until the effects of climate speakers, and upcoming events, visit gspp.berkeley.edu/cepp carry over into women’s change are readily observable. That is, professional, personal and not until the problems have become public domains. immediate and dangerous. Advisor to Governor Jerry Brown, dis- Negotiations for In April, Adam Bumpus, lecturer in cussed the considerations that California Public Leaders Geography and the Environment at Mel- must make in crafting climate policy, even ​May 19–23, 2014 bourne University, shared his research on after setting ambitious emissions targets This program, led by how information communication technol- for 2020 and 2050. Among the interac- Goldman School Lecturer ogies for development can help make cli- tions that he considered were the stresses and attorney Amy Slater, mate policy more transparent and effective. that a growing population will place on a is designed to be relevant By deploying communication technology, water supply that may also be constrained Governor Li, Xueyong of China’s Jiangsu Province arrives at the Goldman School, June 2013 to the broad spectrum of such as mobile phones, into communities by reduced rainfall. To prepare for the negotiation problems that in South Pacific islands, policymakers can environmental, social, and economic are faced by government receive real time feedback on the effects of effects of climate change, Californians professionals. sea level rise and people’s responses. These must confront the issue in many policy insights can be used to design policies that areas, not just energy and emissions. Blas Pérez Henríquez (far right) leads a discussion For more information, please contact respect the values and protect the homes of at the OECD Forum. Photo credit: OECD GSPP’s Global and Executive Programs: (510) 643-0464 the people who live on the frontlines of OECD Forum - May 28–29, 2013 [email protected] climate change. During the 2013 Organization of Eco- Director Blas Pérez Henríquez was invited At the end of the semester, Michael nomic Cooperation and Development to serve as a discussion leader of the McCormick, Local and Regional Affairs (OECD) Forum in Paris, France, CEPP Forum’s Ideas Factory: What Energy Choices for a Sustainable Future? The pol- Innovation Management and Leadership, China Jiangsu Province CEOs, June 2013 icy roundtables identified key shifts needed to help the world meet its climate FALL 2013 change objectives and support a more sus- tainable energy path. It was apparent from Policy Notes is published twice a year by UC Berkeley’s Goldman the debate that the deeper challenge is School of Public Policy. Send questions or comments to Bora Reed, how to renew the foundations of modern (510) 642-7591, [email protected] energy systems while tackling the con- nected challenges, such as food security. Assist. Dean for External Relations and Development: Annette Doornbos OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría Editor: Bora Reed Editorial Assistants: Elise Marsh, Sanaz Rizlenjani and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway Photos: Peg Skorpinksi opened the forum. The Power of Legislation, Nigeria Delta State Faculty and administrators from the Kochi Design and Layout: Matt Vanderzalm, Design Site http://www.oecd.org/forum/about/ Legislators, July 2013 University of Technology, Japan, August 2013 OECD-IdeaFactory-2013-Energy.pdf

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