He served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, DC for a year during 2010-11 while on leave from HSU. During that time Arne played leading roles in two international initiatives associated with the Clean Energy Ministerial. These were the Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) initiative and the Solar and LED Energy Access (SLED) initiative. His talk on October 13 will focus on work associated with the SEAD initiative.