Nate Hultman is Director of the Center for Global Sustainability and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2014-2016, Hultman worked at the White House on the Obama Administration’s climate and energy policy team. During this time, he helped develop the U.S. 2025 climate target, worked on U.S. bilateral engagements with China, India, Brazil and others, and participated in the international climate negotiations in Lima and Paris. His research focuses on national climate target-setting and assessment, U.S. emissions mitigation policy, energy technology transitions and international climate policy. He was recently lead author of the America’s Pledge 2018 Report, Fulfilling America’s Pledge: How Cities, States, and Businesses are Leading the way to a Low-Carbon Future. He has participated in the UN climate process since the Kyoto meeting, and was a contributing author to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and Special Report on Renewable Energy. Hultman was formerly a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, Fulbright fellow and NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow in climate sciences. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Physics from Carleton College.