David Yellen

About

David W. Yellen is the Director of Cross-Regional Impact at CATF. He leads CATF’s work on international energy and climate policies, developing and advocating for solutions that accelerate global innovation, diffusion, and deployment of critical technologies and policies. David’s work focuses on the intersection of geopolitical and economic imperatives with climate, including areas such as trade, industrial policy and competition, and maintaining collaboration in an era of geopolitical fragmentation. In this role, he works closely with CATF’s regional teams to develop durable international partnerships and industrial policies that enable new innovation ecosystems, drive development, and make climate solutions available and affordable where most needed.

Previously, David was an associate director at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, where he was responsible for research and programming covering energy innovation and trade, Middle East and Asia-Pacific energy policy strategy, hydrogen development, and energy markets. His work has focused on China’s industrial strategies and policies in energy industries, hydrogen markets and deployment policies, energy innovation infrastructure and competition, and energy transition policies in developing countries. David also previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations on clean energy economics and in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office, and he has contributed pieces to Scientific American and the Economist, among other publications.

David has a Master of Science degree in Environment and Sustainability Management from Georgetown University, from which he also graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Government, with a focus on energy markets and policy and a minor in economics. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center.