Sally M. Benson is a professor of energy engineering at Stanford University. In 2014, she was appointed as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, the university's hub of energy research and education. Benson will continue on as director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), a position she has had since 2007. On November 24, 2021, Benson was appointed to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition. Biography Benson received a B.S. in geology from Barnard College of Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in materials and mineral engineering from the University of California-Berkeley. Benson has held several positions with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. These include 1980–2007, Staff scientist (director 1993–1997), Earth Sciences Division; 2001–2004, deputy director for operations; 1997–2001, Associate laboratory director, Energy Sciences. Awards and honours Benson has won various awards, including the 2012 Greenman Award, Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecture Award from the Geological Society, and the ARCS American Pacesetter Award. See also Mark Z. Jacobson Tom Steyer Lee Schipper Al Gore Hermann Scheer Benjamin K. Sovacool John A. "Skip" Laitner Amory Lovins Daniel Kammen Renewable energy commercialization References External links Precourt Institute for Energy 21st-century American women 21st-century women engineers American women engineers Barnard College alumni Energy policy Living people Energy engineers Stanford University faculty American environmentalists UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Office of Science and Technology Policy officials Biden administration personnel