Dr. William Chernicoff currently serves as the Director of Global Research and Innovation for the Toyota Mobility Foundation. He defines and coordinates the Foundation’s research agenda, initiatives, and programs and provides technology guidance to projects. With both near- and long-term perspectives, Dr. Chernicoff conceives, identifies, and executes new technology approaches that enable and improve the solutions implemented by the Foundation and its partners. He brings a strong background across energy, technology, mobility, and climate policy from his prior work as a Manager and Principal Researcher with Toyota North America’s Energy & Environmental Research Group and his eight years with the US DOT’s Research Administration. Dr. Chernicoff has appointments as an Adjunct Faculty in the George Washington University Department of Engineering Management a Systems Engineering where he teaches systems thinking and policy modeling and as a prior visiting researcher in the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.