Varun Sivaram | |
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 Varun Sivaram in 2018 | |
| Born | Varun Srinivasan Sivaram 1989 (age 34–35) |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Saratoga High School, The Harker School |
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| Spouse | Laxmi Parthasarathy[2] |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ørsted Biden administration ReNew Power McKinsey & Company Council on Foreign Relations |
| Thesis | Simulation, synthesis, sunlight: enhancing electronic transport in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (2014) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Snaith[1] |
| Website | varunsivaram |
Varun Srinivasan Sivaram (born 1989) is an American physicist, clean energy executive, and former U.S. diplomat. He is Group Senior Vice President, member of the Group Executive Team, and Head of Strategy, Innovation, Portfolio, and Partnerships and M&A at Ørsted, a clean energy company with the world's largest offshore wind energy portfolio.[3][4] He has previously served in the U.S. State Department as managing director for clean energy and senior advisor to U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, as the chief technology officer (CTO) of ReNew Power, India's largest renewable energy company, on the faculty of Columbia University, as the director of the energy and climate program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and as a senior energy advisor to the mayor of Los Angeles and governor of New York.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
- ^ Sivaram, Varun (2014). Simulation, synthesis, sunlight: enhancing electronic transport in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 879390655. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.596004.
- ^ "Physicist Dr Varun Sivaram on sustainability, his new projects, and more". Elle Magazine. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
- ^ "Group Executive Team". orsted.com. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
- ^ a b "Ørsted Announces Dr. Varun Sivaram as Group Senior Vice President for Strategy and Innovation". us.orsted.com. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
- ^ "Varun Sivaram". World Economic Forum. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
- ^ "Varun Sivaram". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
- ^ "Columbia | SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy | Dr. Varun Sivaram Joins Biden-Harris Administration as Senior Adviser to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate". www.energypolicy.columbia.edu. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
- ^ N, Sushma U. (May 10, 2018). "India's largest renewable power company is set to go public". qz.com. Quartz India. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
- ^ "ReNew Power Expands Leadership Team Announces Three Strategic Hires". theweek.in. The Week. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
- ^ "Varun Sivaram". Forbes. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
