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Varun Sivaram
CEO & Founder, Emerald AI
Dr. Varun Sivaram is CEO and Founder of Emerald AI, which transforms AI data centers into flexible power grid assets. Dr. Sivaram was formerly Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Orsted A/S (NASDAQ: DOGEF), a $20 billion Fortune 500 Global energy firm, and he previously served as Chief Technology Officer of India's largest clean energy company, ReNew Power (NASDAQ: RNW). He served 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 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, and was named to the TIME 100 Climate list and MIT TR Top 35 Innovators. A Rhodes Scholar, he holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford and undergraduate degrees from Stanford.
