Daniel M. Kammen is Professor in the Energy and Resources Group Energy and Resources Group, Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy and Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.

Kammen received his undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell University (1984), and his masters and doctorate in physics from Harvard (1986 and 1988) for work on theoretical solid state physics and computational biophysics. He was then the Wezmann and Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the Divisions of Engineering, Biology and the Humanities (1988-1991). First at Caltech and then as a Lecturer in Physics and in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Kammen developed a number of projects focused on renewable energy technologies and environmental resource management. At Harvard he also worked on risk analysis as applied to global warming and methodological studies of forecasting and hazard assessment.

Kammen received the 1993 21st Century Earth Award, recognizing contributions to rural development and environmental conservation from the Global Industrial and Policy Research Institute and Nihon Keizai Shimbun in Japan.

From 1993-1998 Kammen was an Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Kammen played a key role in developing the interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) Program at Princeton, that awards undergraduate and masters certificates and a doctoral degree. He was STEP Chair from 1997-1999 and co-chair before that. In July of 1998 Kammen joined the interdisciplinary Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley as an Associate Professor of Energy and Society. Kammen is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Permanent Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.

Kammen's research interests include: the science, engineering, management and dissemination of renewable energy systems; health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use; rural resource management, including issues of gender and ethnicity; international R&D policy; climate change; and energy forecasting and risk analysis. He is the author of over 90 journal publications, a book on environmental, technological and health risks ("Should We Risk It?," Princeton University Press) and numerous reports on renewable energy and development. He has been featured on radio, network and public broadcasting television and in print as an analyst of energy, environmental and risk policy issues and current events. His recent work on energy R&D policy appeared in Science and Environment, and has been featured on PBS, KQED, CNN and in many newspapers via the Reuters news service.