Edward Vine is an Affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he had been involved in the evaluation of energy efficiency programs, policies and technology performance measurement for over 40 years. Dr. Vine contributed to the development of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Energy Efficiency Evaluation Protocols, the US Department of Energy’s Impact Evaluation Framework for Technology Deployment Programs, and the National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency’s Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Guidelines. He was also on the Board and the Planning Committee of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), and was on the Planning Committee of the International Energy Policy and Program Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC).

He has received the following awards related to his work on evaluation: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEPEC, Outstanding Achievement in Marketing Research and Evaluation Award from the Association of Energy Service Professionals and Certificates of Appreciation from the IEPEC and from the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) organization. In 2007, as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he received the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Vine has a BS in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College, and a MS and Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis.