KEVIN KENNEDY
Assistant Executive Officer
California Air Resources Board
Office of Climate Change

Kevin Kennedy is the Assistant Executive Officer in charge of the Office of Climate Change at the California Air Resources Board. In this role, he has broad responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32).

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Kennedy served as the chief of the Program Evaluation Branch in the Office of Climate Change, where he led the team responsible for evaluating and developing market-based compliance mechanisms, incentives, voluntary actions, offsets and other approaches for achieving emission reductions in support of AB 32. As chief, he was integrally involved in the development of the AB 32 Scoping Plan. The staff in the branch has the primary responsibility for developing the regulations that will create California's cap-and-trade program.

Prior to his move to the Air Resources Board in August 2007, Mr. Kennedy had been at the California Energy Commission since 2000. He served as Special Advisor to Commissioner Jeffrey D. Byron from Byron's appointment to the Commission in June 2006. Mr. Kennedy also served as Special Advisor to Energy Commission Chairman Joseph Desmond prior to Desmond's appointment as Undersecretary of energy affairs for California's Resources Agency.

During 2004 and 2005, Mr. Kennedy served as the program manager for the 2005 Integrated Energy Policy Report proceeding, which resulted in the Commission adopting a comprehensive review of California's energy situation and recommendations for policies that will increase California's energy supplies, reduce energy demand, broaden the range of alternatives to conventional energy sources, and improve the state's energy delivery infrastructure. Prior to that assignment, he was a supervisor in the Energy Commission's Natural Gas and Special Projects Office, where he helped establish California's LNG Interagency Working Group.

Mr. Kennedy holds a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at University of California, Berkeley, and has more than 20 years experience in energy and environmental policy.