Jonas Meckling is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he leads the Energy and Environment Policy Lab.
Jonas studies clean energy transitions and the political forces that drive them. He is particularly interested in the global politics of energy innovation, including in industries such as solar and electric vehicles. 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 published in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, the Review of International Political Economy, and Science.
Jonas is a Faculty Affiliate at the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley and a Fellow at the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins. Previously, Jonas served as Senior Advisor to the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and worked at the European Commission. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.