Gregory Nemet

Gregory Nemet is a Professor and Interim Director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses in policy analysis, energy systems, and international environmental policy. His research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it. He has a Doctorate in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and an A.B. in Geography and Economics from Dartmouth College. In 2017, he received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation” (Routledge 2019). He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019. He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 6th Assessment Report (2023).