Newsha K. Ajami is the Chief Strategic Development Officer for Research in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. A leading expert in sustainable water resource management, smart cities, and water innovation, policy and finance, in her role at LBL, she is focused on developing and leading interdisciplinary and impact-focused research initiatives at the nexus of water, energy, and carbon. Dr. Ajami was a mayoral appointee to the San Francisco PUC, serves on the National Academies Water Science and Technology Board, is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and sits on several advisory boards. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC, Irvine.
Newsha K. Ajami
Chief Research Strategy and Development Officer, EESA, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab