Mr. David Fridley
Staff Scientist
China Energy
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mr. Fridley has 28 years of experience working and living in China. Prior to 1993, Mr. Fridley led the China Energy Project at the East-West Center in Hawaii primarily in the area of petroleum supply and demand, refinery analysis and modeling, international oil trade and energy policy, and concurrently was a petroleum industry consultant with Fesharaki Associates, now FACTS Global Energy. From 1993 to 1995, he was Business Development Manager in refining and marketing for Caltex China.
Since 1995, Mr. Fridley has been a staff scientist and deputy of the China Energy Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, where his work involves extensive collaboration with the Chinese on end-use energy efficiency, end-use energy modeling, industrial energy use, government energy management programs, data compilation and analysis, medium and long term energy policy research. Mr. Fridley has spoken extensively on the energy and ecological limits of biofuels, is a fellow with the Post Carbon Institute, and was the author of the Peak Oil Resolution passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2006. He is a Mandarin speaker.
