BROWN BROTHERS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Decarbonization Consultants
Brown Brothers Energy & Environment, LLC (B2E2) seeks to maximize environmental benefits and minimize environmental damage in the fight to decarbonize the global economy. The firms' three focus areas are: (i) bio-energy pathways that support vibrant tropical and temperate forests;
(ii) dispatchable zero- and low-carbon energy technologies including carbon capture and low-carbon fuels;(iii) corruption and disregard for local communities and the environment in energy
projects and extractive industries.
The two Principals of Brown Brothers Energy and Environment are Jeffrey D. Brown and David W.
Brown. David’s background is in the governance and transparency of extractive industries,
especially tropical forestry. Jeff’s background is in energy finance and development.
B2E2 is a Limited Liability Company incorporated in the state of Washington in the USA, organized in
2016.
David Brown
David W. Brown, Ph.D. is a Principal in Brown Brother’s Energy and Environment, LLC. He is an expert in Indonesia’s natural and extractive resource sectors. From 2003 to 2006, he was head of the Forest Sector Restructuring Team for the first phase of the UK Department of International Development (DFID) Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Program (MFP), and from 2007 to 2014 he was a World Bank Senior Advisor on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). David currently consults with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
David also has private sector experience, having advised the world’s largest mining company BHP Billiton on the governance of its Indonesian mining operations (from 2014 to 2016), and having served as a Forest Sector Commodities and Equities Analyst with the global investment bank of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Indonesia (from 1997 to 1998). From 1989 to 1991, David was a Foreign Policy, Defense and Energy Legislative Assistant to US Senator Max Baucus, and prior to that served as a Defense and Energy Legislative Assistant to US Congressman Wayne Owens.
David’s 2001 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Washington, researched as a Fulbright Scholar, was on the links between political corruption and tropical deforestation in the Indonesian and Malaysian forest products industry. David was resident in the Institute for Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) in the Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia and a Social Sciences Research Council International Pre-Dissertation Fellow in Indonesia, where David was resident first in the World Bank, and then in the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Economics.
As an undergraduate, David was a Telluride Scholar at Cornell University from 1983 to 1985, where he was awarded a BA in Political Economy. From 1980 to 1982 he attended the prestigious Deep Springs College (click through to Economist: One Hundred Years of Solitude).
Jeff Brown
Jeff does the quantitative technical and finance work on B2E2’s projects, based on his 25 years of Wall Street energy and infrastructure finance experience followed by a second career as a clean energy project developer. With David, he conducted extensive studies in 2016-2018 on strategies to improve economics of sustainable forestry concessions in Kalimantan, with the aim of staving off legal or illegal conversion to palm oil plantations. Current electric sector projects involve carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and speeding adoption of low carbon power sources, such as recent collaboration with Energy Futures Initiative and Stanford’s Center for Carbon Storage on the role
of carbon capture in California.
Jeff also spends part of the year teaching graduate-level energy finance courses at Stanford and the University of Wyoming. For 2020-2021 he is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences teaching “Implementing & Financing a Decarbonized Economy.” He will be
teaching a similar course as a Visiting Professor at the University of Wyoming’s Business School. For five years (2015 to 2019) he was a Lecturer at both Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School for an earlier course “Clean Energy Project Development and Finance,” while also teaching a seminar on hydropower, energy storage, and transmission. As a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s
Steyer Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, he was a principal author of a major study completed in collaboration with the Hoover Institute examining worldwide funding constraints and policy barriers to financing green energy projects entitled “Making Green Energy Investments Blue Chip.”
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https://energy.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9971/f/stanfordcleanenergyfinanceframingdoc10- 27_final.pdf
Jeff is also currently serving (half-time) as Director of Energy Economics for the University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI), which focuses on the use and sequestration of captured carbon dioxide in old oil and gas fields. In that role he collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy and Leonardo Technologies, Inc. in a recent study of coal plant carbon capture in Wyoming.
Until 2016, Jeff was Senior Vice President at Seattle-based clean energy development firm Summit Power Group, where he headed the project finance effort for wind, solar, natural gas, and carbon capture projects. Before retiring to join Summit, Jeff was a Managing Director in the bond financing division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Jeff spent 20 years working as
an investment banker in New York, Hong Kong, and Seattle for Goldman Sachs’ Fixed Income, Commodities, and Currencies division. During his investment banking career he advised clients or completed transactions relating to virtually every type of energy and electric generation project, from Liquefied Natural Gas in the Middle East, natural gas pipelines, coal and natural gas power plants, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, municipal solid waste, large and small hydropower, and nuclear. Jeff has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and graduated Magna cum Laude in Economics from Harvard College. He was a Harvard National Scholar as well as being a State of Oregon Presidential Scholar in 1975.