# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-k-sovacool
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:30:34.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-k-sovacool"
name: "Benjamin K. Sovacool"
slug: "benjamin-k-sovacool"
description: "Benjamin K. Sovacool is an American and British academic who is director of the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University as well as Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. He was formerly Director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at the Department of Business Development and Technology and a professor of social sciences at Aarhus University. He is also professor of energy policy at the University of Sussex, where he formerly directed the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand and the Sussex Energy Group. He has written on energy policy, environmental issues, and science and technology policy. Sovacool is also the editor-in-chief of Energy Research & Social Science."
tagline: "American sustainability advocate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben-122.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             4.848655569782331
  historical:           4.411772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/benjamin-sovacool(fca10105-c4eb-4f0f-99a7-a354a8a8a47a).html"
sources:
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    title: "بنجامین کی. سواکول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_K._Sovacool"
    title: "Benjamin K. Sovacool"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_K._Sovacool"
    title: "Benjamin K. Sovacool"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_K._Sovacool"
    title: "Benjamin K. Sovacool"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3301372"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump