Jeffrey Ball, formerly The Wall Street Journal's environment editor, is scholar–in–residence at Stanford's Steyer–Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance.

Ball's work focuses on the intensifying race among companies and countries to corner the clean–energy market, and the implications of that race for consumers and the planet. In addition to conducting research, he writes articles, convenes roundtables, speaks publicly, and plans to write a book.

Ball spent more than a decade at the Journal writing about energy and the environment, in particular about the economic viability of changing the way the world consumes fossil fuels. He covered the auto industry for the paper out of its Detroit bureau, and the oil industry from the paper's Dallas bureau. In 2009, he wrote a Journal column called Power Shift, which won an award from the National Press Foundation for its coverage of the changing energy and environmental landscape. He spent most of 2010 covering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, focusing on questions about the spill's environmental effect.

Also at the Journal, Ball created and was founding editor of Environmental Capital, a blog about energy and the environment. He helped conceive, and was a host and moderator of, ECO:nomics, an annual Journal conference on energy and the environment that brings together chief executives, policymakers, and other leaders in the field. In addition, Ball helped host the annual meeting of the Journal's CEO Council, a group of global chief executives who discuss policy issues and make recommendations for federal action.

Ball also speaks on college campuses about energy issues as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. He has appeared on PBS, NPR, CNN and the BBC, among other networks. Before coming to the Journal, he worked as a reporter at the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and the Corpus Christi (Tex.) Caller–Times. He graduated from Yale University, where he was editor–in–chief of the Yale Daily News. He lives in Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife and two daughters.