Varun Sivaram

Varun Sivaram is the Douglas Dillon fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization. He is the acting director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change and an expert on clean energy technology, climate change, and sustainable urbanization.[1]

Education

Sivaram holds a B.S. in engineering physics and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University, where he was awarded a Truman Scholarship. He also holds a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from St. John's College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. While at Oxford, he researched perovskite solar cells under Henry Snaith.[1]

Career

Sivaram was previously the senior advisor for energy and water policy to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, where he oversaw the city's Department of Water and Power.[2] Sivaram is currently a strategic advisor to the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on energy policy, an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and an advisory board member for the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy.[1][3]

Bill Gates has called Sivaram's 2016 essay on clean energy innovation in Foreign Affairs magazine "One of the best arguments I've read for why the U.S. should invest in an energy revolution."[4]

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Varun Sivaram". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  2. Villaraigosa, Mayor Antonio R.; Sivaram, Varun; Nichols, Ron (2013-09-01). "Powering Los Angeles with renewable energy". Nature Climate Change. 3 (9): 771–775. doi:10.1038/nclimate1985. ISSN 1758-678X.
  3. "STIA Adjunct Faculty - School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University". School of Foreign Service - Georgetown University. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  4. "Bill Gates on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
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