About

Dr. Varun Sivaram is CEO and Founder of Emerald AI, which transforms AI data centers into flexible power grid assets. One of the world’s foremost authorities on energy technologies, Dr. Sivaram was formerly the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Orsted A/S (NASDAQ: DOGEF), a $20 billion Fortune 500 Global energy firm where he led a team of 200, and he previously served as Chief Technology Officer of India’s largest clean energy company, ReNew Power (NASDAQ: RNW). He also served as a senior U.S. diplomat as Managing Director for Clean Energy at the U.S. State Department, where he created the First Movers Coalition.

Dr. Sivaram is a senior fellow for energy at the Council on Foreign Relations; a senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, Aventurine Partners, and Everview Partners; and a board member of the Atlantic Council. He is the author of three books, including the bestselling Taming the Sun on the future of solar energy. TIME Magazine named Dr. Sivaram to its TIME100 Next list and the TIME100 Climate list, MIT Technology Review named him one of the top 35 innovators under 35, and the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. A Rhodes and Truman Scholar, he holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford University and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.

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