Sean McCoy is an expert at technical and environmental assessment of climate mitigation technologies. He is an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He was formerly a staff scientist at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2016-2018) and an energy analyst at the International Energy Agency (2011-2016). In his past roles, has developed tools for life cycle and techno-economic assessment of energy and emissions reduction technologies. He was awarded the US Secretary of Energy Achievement Honor Award for work as a member of the “Getting to Neutral Carbon Emissions” team, and supported development of government policy on CCS in multiple countries and regions, including the Province of Alberta.