Julio Friedmann

Julio Friedmann is chief scientist and chief carbon wrangler at Carbon Direct, a management firm, and an expert on carbon removal, CO2 conversion and use, hydrogen, industrial decarbonization, and carbon capture and sequestration. Previously, he was a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Friedmann has been a distinguished associate of the Energy Futures Initiative and senior advisor to the Global CCS Institute. He has held positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, including chief energy technologist, and from 2013 to 2016 was principal deputy assistant secretary for the US Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy, where he led its R&D program in advanced fossil energy systems, carbon capture and storage (CCS), CO2 utilization, and clean coal deployment.