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Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Ten years in, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy is ‘just getting started’
Ramón Méndez Galain at Carnot Prize ceremony.

Carnot Prize recipient Ramón Méndez Galain, the former energy director for Uruguay, spoke at the 2023 Carnot Prize Policy Lecture and Award Ceremony, held at the Kleinman Center Energy Forum. 

(Image: T. Kevin Birch)

Ten years in, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy is ‘just getting started’

Through grants, awards, events, publications, a podcast, and more, the Center provides resources and a central hub for researchers across Penn tackling the energy transition.
A climate expert’s return to Penn
Portrait of Jen Wilcox

Jen Wilcox has returned to the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and to the School of Engineering and Applied Science following three years in at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she served in the Biden Administration as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.

(Image: Courtesy of Jen Wilcox)

A climate expert’s return to Penn

Jen Wilcox, an expert on direct-air capture, is the inaugural faculty appointment in the Kleinman Center and served for three years as principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy. She discusses her time away and her return to Penn.