Alan Lloyd’s work focuses on viable future of advanced transportation technology including electric drive and renewable fuels with attention to urban air quality issues and global climate change. Prior to joining the ICCT in 2006, Dr. Lloyd served as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency from 2004 through February 2006 during which time he chaired the Climate Action Team to implement the governor’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. He was Chairman of the California Air Resources Board from 1999 to 2004 during which CARB passed the first greenhouse gas regulation (AB 1493). Before CARB, Dr. Lloyd was the Executive Director of the Energy and Environmental Engineering Center for the Desert Research Institute at the University and Community College System of Nevada, Reno, and the chief scientist at the South Coast Air Quality Management District from 1988 to 1996. He earned both his B.S. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Gas Kinetics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.