Nathaniel (Nate) Dolton Thornton

Nathaniel (Nate) Dolton-Thornton is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on the political economy of energy transition minerals, with a focus on China and the United States. Before joining UC Berkeley, Nate served as an Assistant Researcher with Prof. Kelly Sims Gallagher's Climate Policy Lab in The Fletcher School at Tufts University. There, he led research on critical minerals and energy transitions, with a focus on China, Latin America, and Africa. Nate completed master’s studies as a Marshall Scholar at the universities of Cambridge (MPhil Geographical Research) and Oxford (MSt Critical Translation), and undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley (BS Environmental Science, Policy, and Management).