Prof. Jonas Meckling

Jonas Meckling is Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he leads the Energy and Environment Policy Lab. Dr. Meckling studies the comparative and international politics of climate and clean energy policy. Jonas is the author of two books, the latest of which is Carbon Coalitions: Business, Climate Politics, and the Rise of Emissions Trading (MIT Press). He has published articles in International Studies Quarterly, Governance, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Science and various other journals. Previously, Jonas served as Senior Advisor to the German Minister for the Environment, was a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and worked at the European Commission. He holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.