Member  David REINER

Member

David Reiner, Senior Lecturer in the University of Cambridge

David Reiner is Course Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy and University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is also Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Cambridge and is a research associate of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and the Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies Program, both at MIT. Current research activities include the geopolitics of climate change, international surveys of public and stakeholder perceptions of low-carbon technologies, grassroots activism, siting controversies over large-scale energy supply infrastructure, and public communications and acceptance of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) with a focus on the EU and China in particular. He led the first CCS stakeholder survey in China in 2006 and has been involved in three subsequent studies. He is the member of the coordination group of the UK CCS Research Centre (UKCCSRC) responsible for policy, economics and finance and leader of the cross-cutting issues research group within UKCCSRC. He is also a member of the Guangdong CCS Ready Project, the EU’s Zero Emission Power technology platform Task Force on Public Communications, the Advisory Board of the Dutch national CCS programme CATO-2, and the steering committee of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Programme's Social Research Network.