Dr. Richard Bradley

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Head, Energy Efficiency & Environment Division

Dr. Bradley is the Head of the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division (EED) at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris. The EED provides analytical support to the IEA Standing Group on Long Term Co-Operation and to the Annex I Experts Group on a range of issues at the interface of energy, energy efficiency and environment policy.

Dr. Bradley served from 1997-2004 as Senior Advisor for Global Change in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He chaired the IEA/OECD Annex I Experts Group from 1998-2002 and was Vice-Chair of the UNFCCC Expert Group on Technology Transfer in 2003.

Dr. Bradley received his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of California, Riverside and was Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas from 1974-1977. In 1978 he joined the Department of Energy as an economist and from 1980-1983 he was with the Environment Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. From 1990-1992 Dr. Bradley was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Energy for Environment and was liaison between the Secretary and all environmental activities at the Department of Energy.