Joseph Romm
Senior Research Fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media
Romm has written 10 books in the areas of climate change, clean energy, and communications. His book, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2015) was called “the best single-source primer on the state of climate change” by New York Magazine. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress where he founded the blog Climate Progress. Time magazine named Romm's blog one of the "Top 15 Green Websites." Thomas L. Friedman, in The New York Times, called it "the indispensable blog" for understanding climate change. Time included it in a list of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010." He also spent five years in the Clinton Administration working on climate solutions at the U.S.
Department of Energy, including serving as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Romm is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rolling Stone named him one of 100 “people who are reinventing America.”
