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The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Energy, Resources and Environment Program
Vision
Vision Statement
Smart Globalization: Educating Leaders and Problem-Solvers
Dr. David J. Jhirad
Professor and Director, Energy Resources and Environment Program
H.R.H. Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy
The Energy, Resources and Environment (ERE) Program of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies is an interdisciplinary graduate program focused on developing innovative
solutions to urgent global energy and environmental challenges. The Program aspires to educate a new
generation of “specialized integrators”, who will play leadership roles in the diverse array of global
institutions that will shape the world’s future. ERE faculty provide students with the intellectual
framework and analytic skills to devise robust solutions to the daunting policy, financing, technological
and governance challenges facing the international community.
The major challenges addressed by the program include: stabilizing climate change through mitigation
of greenhouse gas emissions while building resilience to climate impacts; reversing the alarming
deterioration of the world’s eco-systems; enhancing global security by reducing the risk of economic
disruption and nuclear weapons proliferation; eliminating energy poverty for over two billion people;
achieving energy, water and food security for all; and mobilizing over $50 trillion in capital investment
for urban and rural infrastructure by the year 2030 to generate inclusive and sustainable economic
growth.
The ERE program stresses that solutions to these complex, non-linear and “wicked” problems will
require unprecedented and multi-faceted innovation- in new public-private partnerships, technology,
investment, policy, governance and international diplomacy- to achieve global security, equity and
resilience.
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