Jae Edmonds is a Senior Staff Scientist and Technical Leader of Economic Programs at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration with the University of Maryland on the College Park campus. Dr. Edmonds heads an international global change research program at PNNL with active collaborations in more than a dozen institutions and countries around the world. He is the principal investigator for the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program to Address Climate Change, an international public-private research collaboration.

Dr. Edmonds is well known for his contributions to the field of the integrated assessment of climate change and the examination of interactions between energy, technology, policy and the environment. He has expounded extensively on the subject of global change including books, papers, and presentations. His publications include, Global Energy Assessing the Future, with John Reilly (Oxford University Press) and A Primer on Greenhouse Gases (Lewis Publishing and scientific book of the year at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). He has served as a Lead Author for all three major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and numerous interim assessment reports. He has frequently testified before Congress and briefed the Executive Branch of the United States Government including the Vice President of the United States and the Cabinet of the President of the United States, and has prepared and conducted numerous briefings and lectures to a wide range of audiences. Dr. Edmonds serves on editorial boards, review panels and advisory committees.