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Bernie joined VantagePoint upon his retirement as Chief Scientist at BP (British Petroleum) in 2003. He spent 19 years at BP and its predecessor, The Standard Oil Company, holding various positions in technology and business, including Chief Scientist and Director of Manufacturing, Supply and Distribution. As BP's Vice President for Environmental Affairs, Bernie developed BP's clean fuels strategy and led BP's strategy and action plan on climate change. Prior to BP, Bernie was an academic scientist and Professor at City University of New York and Polytechnic Institute for 18 years. Bernie is an author on topics including sustainability, climate change, transport and the future of technology in the energy industry. In addition, he has published more than 100 papers and two books on such subjects as Raman spectroscopy, polymers and liquid crystals. Bernie currently serves as Chairman of AEA Technology, a non-executive director of Severn Trent plc and of Accelergy Corporation, and is a member of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory, Board of Directors of UK CEED, the UK Government Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, Vice Chair for Energy and Transport of the Sustainable Development Commission. Bernie is Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry; Fellow, Institute of Petroleum; Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts. He has received the Coblentz Award, the Oscar Foster Award in Science Education, Sigma Xi Distinguished Research Citation, and Gold Medal of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Bernie is a graduate of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (BS) and Purdue University (PhD).