James D. Boyd

Commissioner,

California Energy Commission

James D. Boyd was appointed to the California Energy Commission on February 6, 2002, by Governor Gray Davis. The five members of the Energy Commission are appointed by the Governor to staggered five-year terms and require Senate confirmation. By law, four of the five members of the Energy Commission are required to have professional training in specified areas - engineering or physical science, environmental protection, economics, and law. One commissioner is appointed from the public at large. Commissioner Boyd fills the economist position.

Commissioner Boyd presides over the Energy Commission's Transportation Committee and oversees Climate Change and International Export Programs. He serves on the Electricity and Natural Gas and Renewables Committees. He chairs the state's Joint Action Climate Change Team and the state's Natural Gas Working Group. He was chairman of the committee overseeing the preparation of the Energy Commission's 2003 Integrated Energy Policy Report. He serves as the state's liaison to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is Co-chairman of the Border Governors' Conference Energy Worktable. He represents the Energy Commission on the Steering Teams of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and the California Fuel Cell Collaborative. He serves on the Board of Directors of WESTSTART/CALSTART and on the Board of Advisors at University of California Davis' Institute of Transportation Studies.

Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Boyd was Chief of Staff of the California Resources Agency. He served 15 years as the Chief Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), directing the nation's largest state air pollution control program. During this period, the CARB led the nation in establishing new pollution control programs for motor vehicles and their fuels, toxic air contaminants, consumer products, and industrial and area sources.

Commissioner Boyd served as Vice-President and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Air and Waste Management Association and served on the Board of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators. He has been a government administrator for over thirty years overseeing a variety of public health, environmental, natural resource, scientific, technical, and administrative programs.

A California native, Commissioner Boyd received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California Berkeley. He is a long-time member of the Commonwealth Club, the Air and Waste Management Association and is a board member of the Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California, Davis. He is certified by the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice as a Qualified Environmental Professional.

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