Joseph Romm is an internationally recognized authority in hydrogen, fuel cells, and advanced transportation technology. Romm is the Executive Director and Founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, as well as a Capital E principal. Future Directions for Hydrogen Energy Research and Education, a National Science Foundation project, has him as the primary investigator. He is a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Romm served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy's billion-dollar Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

He was a key figure in the development of the Obama administration's climate change technology policy. Romm is the author of Cool Companies: How the Top Organizations Increase Earnings and Productivity By Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, the first book to benchmark corporate best practices for Read More chevron_right

Joseph Romm is an internationally recognized authority in hydrogen, fuel cells, and advanced transportation technology. Romm is the Executive Director and Founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, as well as a Capital E principal. Future Directions for Hydrogen Energy Research and Education, a National Science Foundation project, has him as the primary investigator. He is a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Romm served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy's billion-dollar Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

He was a key figure in the development of the Obama administration's climate change technology policy. Romm is the author of Cool Companies: How the Top Organizations Increase Earnings and Productivity By Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, the first book to benchmark corporate best practices for deploying modern energy technology such as fuel cells to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. He has published numerous articles and given numerous talks on advanced transportation technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, distributed energy, business, and environmental challenges. He maintains the ClimateProgress.org blog.

MidEast Oil Forever, the cover story of The Atlantic Monthly's April 1996 issue, predicted that the main oil-exporting countries would recover pricing control of oil within the decade and examined alternate energy options.