Author: Bent Sørensen

Bent Sørensen received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and a Diploma in Advanced Management from INSEAD in Fontainebleau. He has published some 20 books and 600 scientific articles, notably in the fields of energy and environmental science, history, and policy studies. He is Professor Emeritus at Roskilde University and has formerly held academic positions at universities in Berkeley, Yale, Golden, Kyoto, Grenoble and Sydney. He has been an advisor and committee chairman for the OECD, national governments and UN agencies including the IPCC as lead author on climate change mitigation. He received the Australian-European Eminent Scholar Award and the European Solar Prize and was, in 1989, knighted by the Danish Queen.