Prof. Daniel SPERLING
Prof. Daniel SPERLING
Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies
Blue Planet Prize Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis
Board member, California Air Resources Board
USA
Dr. Daniel Sperling is Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, and founding Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis). He holds the transportation seat on the California Air Resources Board and served as Chair of the Transportation Research Board of the US National Academies in 2015-16. Among his many prizes are the 2013 Blue Planet Prize from the Asahi Glass Foundation Prize for being a pioneer in opening up new fields of study to create more efficient, low-carbon, and environmentally beneficial transportation systems. He served twice as lead author for the IPCC (sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), has testified 7 times to the US Congress, and provided 20 keynote presentations in the past year. He has authored or co-authored over 250 technical papers and 13 books, including Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future (Island Press, 2018), is a regular contributor to Forbes, an Energy Expert contributor to Wall Street Journal, and is widely cited in leading newspapers.