Joanna Lewis

Joanna Lewis is Professor of Energy and Environment in the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has over two decades of experience working on international climate and clean energy policy with a focus on China. At Georgetown she runs the Clean Energy and Climate Research Group and leads several dialogues facilitating U.S.-China climate change engagement.   

Currently a research affiliate at the California-China Climate Institute at UC Berkeley, Lewis has worked for a number of governmental and non-governmental organizations including the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the Asia Society, Lawerence Berkeley National Lab and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and has been a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University, the Wilson Center and the East-West Center. She has advised international, governmental and non-profit organizations such as the World Bank, UNIDO, US Department of Energy and climate foundations, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP).

She is the author of Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector (MIT Press) and Green Innovation in China: China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (Columbia University Press) and has represented the United States twice as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Lead Author.

Lewis holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University.