

David is a consultant to RMI, specializing in evaluating the impact of tax policies on the clean energy transition.
Background
Before RMI, David was a Consultant at CPI Energy Finance in San Francisco, working on a team that developed innovative financing tools to accelerate the retirement of coal-fired power plants. Before moving to the Bay Area, he was a policy analyst in Washington, DC, where he spent five years at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. David has a PhD in history and has taught at Yale University, the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and the Universität Mannheim.
Education
B.A. History, Cornell University 1989
Ph.D. History, Yale University, 1997
MBA Finance, The Wharton School, 2003
Location
San Francisco