Job Taminiau completed his doctorate in climate change policy and economics at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP). He is a Research Director at the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment. He has a multi-disciplinary background and his work covers subjects including energy finance, renewable energy and energy efficiency technology, (global) carbon markets, climate change policy, diffusion of innovation, transition management, and community utility development. He manages the FREE Policy Brief Series and regularly publishes peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on a wide range of energy and environmental topics. For his work, he was rewarded with a first-place climate policy thesis award from CE Delft (Netherlands), second place in the MIT Climate CoLab contest, two University of Delaware Graduate Fellowships, and a FREE Minds Award.