Alan McDonald

Alan McDonald is Head, Programme Coordination Group, Department of Nuclear Energy, at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

He co–authored Global Energy Perspectives, the final report of the joint study on long-term energy prospects by the World Energy Council (WEC) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He is a contributing author to the UNDP-UNDESA-WEC World Energy Assessment 2004 Update and Emissions Scenarios, the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (published 2000), and has published on the future of nuclear power, innovation, technological learning, gas infrastructures in Eurasia, international scientific cooperation, and interactions between climate change and acid rain policies.

He began his career at the General Electric Company's former Fast Breeder Reactor Department, and worked at the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and IIASA before joining the IAEA in 2000. He received his Master of Science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Stanford University in 1974 and his Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1979.