About the Author

Deborah Gordon

Senior Principal, RMI

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University

A chemical engineer by training, Deborah Gordon’s research focuses on oil and gas and climate change issues, both in North America and globally. Gordon is a Senior Principal at RMI and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University. She previously served as the Director of the Energy and Climate Program and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she launched the Oil Climate Index. Gordon holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and an MPP in public policy. She has worked in the private, public, academic, and non-profit sectors for Chevron, Union of Concerned Scientists, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Yale School of the Environment. She managed her own energy policy consulting practice for over a decade. In addition to No Standard Oil, Gordon has authored two previous books, Two Billion Cars (Oxford University Press, 2008; co-authored with Daniel Sperling) and Steering a New Course (Island Press, 1991).

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