Brent Heard, PhD, is a Senior Program Officer with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is leading work at the Academies on applying lifecycle assessment for fuels policy and regulation, as well as numerous activities on electricity system reliability and decarbonization. Heard also co-directs a roundtable on climate and the macroeconomy, and has convened groups of experts to address topics ranging from decarbonization and the financial system, to climate intervention strategies, to U.S. federal clean energy innovation policy. He completed his PhD examining the sustainability implications of expansions and innovations in refrigerated food supply chains from the Univ. of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems, publishing in high-impact journals including Environmental Science & Technology and having his research covered by news outlets including NPR, TIME, and The Guardian. He earned a BS in economics with an additional major in environmental policy from Carnegie Mellon Univ.