Levine is Division Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from UC Berkeley. He was a Fulbright scholar in Germany. Before joining LBNL in 1978, he was a staff scientist at the Ford Foundation Energy Project in Washington, D.C., and a senior energy policy analyst at SRI, International in Menlo Park.

Dr. Levine has extensive international energy experience. He is a leader of global energy demand studies for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has expertise in energy modeling, appliance energy efficiency policy, and other aspects of energy efficiency and climate change policy analysis. He sits on the boards of several energy policy organizations, including the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Center for Clean Air Policy.