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Dr. Mark Allen Bernstein, Managing Director, USC Energy Institute, University of Southern California

Before coming to the university, Bernstein spent eight years as a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His research areas span across a broad range of issues in energy, environment, and water including economic impacts of technologies and policies, efficiency and renewable energy, climate change policy, technology diffusion among others. During California's 2001 electricity crisis, Bernstein advised the speaker of the California State Assembly. At the end of 2005, Mark assisted the Housing Committee of the Mississippi Governors Commission to develop recommendations for ensuring an adequate supply of quality affordable housing in the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Bernstein spent two years as the senior energy policy analyst for the Clinton administration's White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He worked on the administration's climate change technology strategy and helped to create a public-private partnership with the housing industry.

Before working at the White House, Bernstein spent three years in the Washington office of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as principal energy policy analyst. He also was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and served as Director of the Center for Energy and the Environment. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters and Bachelors in Mathematics.