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  • Energy Seminar at Harvard: Daniel White, Director of Business Development, National Grid Partners

    Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

    Daniel White is a Director of Business Development at National Grid Partners—a corporate venture capital and innovation organization he helped establish at National Grid in 2018. Since that time, Daniel has helped National Grid trial and deploy several start-up technologies including Copperleaf’s investment planning software and Linevision’s dynamic line rating technology. Prior to National Grid, Daniel was president of Thimbleberry Research L.L.C., a finance and strategy consulting firm he founded shortly after leaving The Boston Consulting Group. Before BCG, he was a finance manager at Intel Capital where he helped deal teams close several million dollars in venture investments. Daniel began his career in the institutional equity research group at D.A. Davidson & Co. He is a CFA charter holder and a licensed CPA. Daniel has an MBA with distinction from Cornell University and graduated magna cum laude from the College of Idaho.

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    Understanding Hurricane Milton

    Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

    Join the Salata Institute for an informal discussion with Harvard experts on Hurricane Milton. Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, will address the impacts of climate change on hurricanes, generally, and what we can know about the role warming oceans may have played in intensifying Hurricane Milton. Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Director of CrisisReady, will speak to the impacts of the storm on human health and displacement and what can be expected as the recovery progresses.

  • BOOK TALK: CLIMATE CAPITALISM BY BLOOMBERG'S AKSHAT RATHI; includes events details outlined on website

    Book Talk: Climate Capitalism by Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi

    Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

    Join the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability to hear from Bloomberg's senior climate reporter Akshat Rathi. He will discuss his new book, Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age. In a journey across five continents, Rathi brings people, policy, and technology together and tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. The discussion will be moderated by Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.

  • Salata Institute Climate Research Cluster Info Session I

    Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

    The Salata Institute is committed to supporting research that promises to make a real-world impact on the climate crisis. The Climate Research Clusters Program delivers on that commitment by funding research about complex climate problems that produces useful and practical solutions. Clusters comprise interdisciplinary, cross-School teams of researchers, whose varied expertise is required to address the complexity of the problems that they seek to solve.