Morgan Bazilian

Bazilian has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in thermal physics from the University of Colorado Boulder, a master's degree in applied physics from Murdoch University in Western Australia, and a PhD in energy systems and thermodynamics from University of New South Wales (2002).^{[1][8][9][10]}

In 2001, Bazilian was a Fulbright Fellow at SINTEF in Norway.^[11] From 2002 to 2007, Bazilian worked as the innaugural head of energy policy and at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.^[1][9][10] Following this, he became a political appointee and senior advisor on Energy Security to the Irish Ministry of Energy under Eamon Ryan.^[9][12] In 2008, Bazilian was the lead negotiator for the European Union on technology at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change climate negotiations.^[12][13] In 2009, he became special advisor on energy access to the Director-General of United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and helped to develop the United Nations Sustainable Energy For All Initiative while leading the UN-Energy program.^{[10][14][15][16][17]} In 2011, he began working as the deputy director of the Joint Institute on Strategic Energy Analysis at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.^[18][19][20] From 2014 to 2018, he was the World Bank's lead energy specialist.^[1][8]

He is currently a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, and is the inaugural director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy.^[10] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Energy, a fellow of the Energy and Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an advisor for the Energy and Defense Initiative at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Sustainable Finance Programme at Oxford University.^{[21][22][23][2]} He holds or has held academic affiliations at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Columbia University, the Royal Institute of Technology, Cambridge University,^[24] and University College Cork.^[2][22][21] In 2021, he was appointed to Ireland's Climate Change Advisory Council.^[25] He is a board member of the Veterans Advanced Energy Project.^[26]

Dr. Bazilian has testified for both the United States Senate^[27] and the United States House of Representatives,^[28] as well as governing bodies of Ireland and the European Union. He sits on several tech and finance company Advisory Boards, such as: Air Capture,^[29] Capsol Technologies,^[30] and Nomadic Ventures.^[31]

Prior to his career in energy and security, Bazilian was a professional mountain guide on Mount Rainier and Denali for Rainier Mountaineering^[32] and International Mountain Guides, and became the 10th American to summit the world's 6th tallest peak - Cho Oyu. He is also a published poet.^[33] As a boy, he started a garage band - Prophets of the Void - with Grammy winner Brad Mehldau ^[34].