Author » Jan Mazurek
Jan Mazurek brings 15 years of experience in energy, environment, and economic innovation in Silicon Valley's microelectronics industry to bear to better understand the region's current transition to "cleantech." The term refers to products and processes that save energy, reduce pollution, and hold the potential to serve as the next great creator of high-paying, clean-energy jobs. She has written dozens of reports on energy and the environment and serves as an energy policy commentator for major U.S. media. Mazurek also has testified before Congressional committees and has served as a policy advisor on carbon dioxide emissions trading design. Mazurek believes that clean technology could follow telecommunications and the Internet as the next great magnet for venture capital and entrepreneurial ingenuity. To achieve this goal, PPI's Center for Clean Technology is dedicated to dramatically modernizing U.S. energy policy. As part of that effort, Mazurek also is completing her doctorate and a new book on cleantech.
Mazurek's most recent book, Making Microchips: Policy, Restructuring and Globalization in the Semiconductor Industry was released in 2003 by the MIT Press in paperback. She also is co-author with J. Clarence Davies of Pollution Control in the United States: Evaluating the System (RFF/Johns Hopkins, 1998).