Nathan Hultman

Nate Hultman is a professor in the School of Public Policy and the inaugural director of the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland. Hultman’s work focuses on developing, setting and achieving ambitious national climate goals. This work includes various analytical and policy approaches to national climate strategies, including climate target setting, assessment, implementation and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement; U.S. NDCs and long-term net-zero strategy; international climate policy; the role of subnational actors to support national and global climate action; U.S.-China bilateral climate engagement; non-CO2 greenhouse gas reductions; and national climate strategies in China, Indonesia, Brazil, India, Korea and others. Hultman has served as distinguished senior advisor for climate ambition in the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate at the U.S. Department of State. He has also participated in the UN climate negotiations as a non-governmental observer for over 27 years, starting with the Kyoto meeting. He has also been a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in physics from Carleton College and a PhD in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.