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 critical mineral supply chains for energy transitions, with a focus on China and Latin America. At UC Berkeley, he is a member of Prof. Meg Mills-Novoa’s Climate Futures Lab, Prof. Nancy Lee Peluso’s Land Lab, and Prof. Youjin Chung’s Critical Ruralities Lab. He is also affiliated with Dean Kelly Sims Gallagher’s Climate Policy Lab in The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Prof. Julie Klinger’s lab at the University of Delaware, and Resources for the Future’s Critical Minerals Research Lab.
Before joining UC Berkeley, Nate served as an Assistant Researcher for the Climate Policy Lab. He 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). In his free time, Nate likes hiking, gardening, and translating poetry.
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