Jesse H. Ausubel

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Director, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University
Moderator, Session 2: Forecasts of natural gas demand

Jesse Huntley Ausubel is Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University in New York City. The program elaborates the technical vision of a large, prosperous society that emits little or nothing harmful and spares large amounts of land and sea for nature. Mr. Ausubel was a main organizer of the first UN World Climate Conference in 1979. He helped develop the concept of “decarbonization” and published the first paper using the word in 1991. From 2006-2010 served as a director of the Electric Power Research Institute and now serves on its Advisory Council.