John Byrne

John Byrne

Chairman and CEO

Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment

445 Fifth Avenue, Suite 28A

New York, NY 10016 USA

Cell: +302.563.5176

E-mail: jb@freefutures.org

Website: http://freefutures.org/

John Byrne is the Chairman and CEO of the Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment (FREE). The Foundation was created in 2011 with a mission of promoting a better future based on energy, water and materials conservation, renewable energy use, environmental resilience, and sustainable livelihoods. He is also Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) at the University of Delaware. He has contributed since 1992 to Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He holds appointments as a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; a visiting faculty member at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and the Committee of Chairpersons of the World Council for Renewable Energy. Dr. Byrne conceived the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) model and co-chaired the nation’s first SEU (created in Delaware) during 2007-2012. He is the architect of its innovative sustainable energy finance program which executed its first tax-exempt bond sale in 2011 with a rating of AA+. The SEU has received U.S. government recognition as part of the country’s Better Buildings Challenge, is recommended by the Asia Development Bank to members for affordable green energy development, and was recognized for its innovation in green energy investment by the International Energy Agency (2016 edition of its Energy Technology Perspectives series). His work has been funded by the World Bank, UNEP, the Blue Moon Fund, the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. EPA, among others. He has published 19 books and over 170 research articles.