Speakers

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George David

Chairman, United Technologies Corporation
Keynote Speaker

George David is Chairman of the Board of United Technologies Corporation and was its Chief Executive Officer from 1994 to 2008. He was elected UTC’s President in 1992. He joined UTC’s Otis Elevator subsidiary in 1975 and became its President in 1986.

He received his B.A. from Harvard and M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Mr. David is a board member of BP and Citigroup, and a member of The Business Council and the Business Roundtable. He is Vice Chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and has chaired the boards of the Graduate Business School at the University of Virginia, the National Minority Supplier Development Council, the U.S.–ASEAN Business Council, the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Fine Arts in Hartford.

He was awarded in 1999 the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation for contributions to that nation’s economy and especially its aerospace industry. In 2002 France admitted him to its Legion of Honor.

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Isaac Berzin

Founder and Chief Technology Officer,GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
Moderator, Dialogue 2

Isaac Berzin earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and has worked for over 12 years in biotechnology engineering and bioreactor design. As part of his doctoral research, he worked on the engineering of photobioreactors for plant cultures. In 1999, Berzin joined the research staff of the MIT Center for Space Research, where he helped design bioreactor systems for the unique demands of space research. On his own, he designed a novel field bioreactor to propagate algae efficiently at large scales; this and related inventions led Berzin to launch GreenFuel. Berzin is responsible for the company’s technology. Berzin has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and a B.S. Chemical engineering degree in Biotechnology, summa cum laude, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

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Juan Pablo Bonilla

Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank
Framer, Dialogue 3

Juan Pablo Bonilla coordinates the activities related to sustainable Energy and Climate Change at the Inter-American Development Bank. Juan Pablo’s responsibilities include coordinating the IDB’s efforts on renewable energy, energy efficiency, biofuels, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Before joining the IDB, Juan Pablo was Senior Environmental and Sustainable Development Specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank, and Member of the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to the United Nations. In his country, Colombia, Juan Pablo had the following positions: Deputy Minister of Environment, acting Minister of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development; principal advisor of the Vice President of Colombia, Executive Director of Fundesarrollo, and National Environmental Manager of ANDI (National Industry Association). He graduated with a BA in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and holds an MSc in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and a PhD in Environmental and Energy Management from George Washington University.

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Charles Bralver

Executive Director, Center for Emerging Market Enterprises
Introduction; Moderator, Dialogue 3

Mr. Bralver is the Executive Director of both the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises and the International Business Center at The Fletcher School, and the director of Fletcher’s new Master of International Business Degree. He joined The Fletcher School in 2007 following his departure from Mercer Oliver Wyman, where he led the firm's Strategic Finance practice.

Mr. Bralver was a founding partner of Oliver, Wyman & Co. and, from 1988 to 1992, served as Managing Director for Europe where he opened the U.K. and French offices. In 1991, he launched the Global Capital Markets practice serving investment banks, exchanges, securities processors, and financial technology firms. He became Vice-Chairman and head of the firm's Corporate Strategy and Global Client Management business in 2000.

On the company's sale to Marsh & McLennan Companies in 2003, Bralver became head of North America, where he was responsible for the firm’s business in the United States and Canada and global financial services synergy development with Mercer Inc and Kroll. In his most recent role as Executive Director, he was responsible for leading Mercer's CFO services for U.S. and U.K. corporations in strategic and enterprise risk, finance organization and decision support from Mercer companies. Prior to joining Mercer Oliver Wyman, Bralver spent five years at Chemical Bank based in New York and London and two years with Booz, Allen and Hamilton.

Bralver holds a Master of Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, and an A.B. in History and International Relations from Dartmouth College, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar. He currently sits on Dartmouth’s Board of Visitors of the Dickey Center for International Affairs.

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Olaf Groth

Global Business Network, The Monitor Group
Dialoguer, Dialogue 3

Olaf Groth is a senior practitioner at GBN. Prior to joining Monitor, he was an international, entrepreneurial venture development executive, leading a variety of for-profit and nonprofit projects with partners and governments globally. His chief areas of focus include hi-tech domains (cleantech/energy, ICT/communications, aerospace, and automotive), private equity, and strategy issues that sit at intersection of business, economic development, and national security.

Groth has held executive and advisory positions for corporate, business, market and operations development, government affairs, strategy, strategic finance, and business integration with Qualcomm, Boeing, Vodafone, and AirTouch Communications. He has spent many years traveling in Asia, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. As such, he brings to his clients in-depth understanding of global operations and market development, innovation management, corporate and startup entrepreneurship, strategic leadership, venture capital, win-win deal-making, strategic planning, and latest technology trends.

Groth serves on the boards of directors of CleanTech Bay and CDS International, as well as on the board of international advisors of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He is a past chairman of the German American Chamber of Commerce West (GACC) and a past trustee of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and MIIS. Groth is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Academy of International Business (AIB), Talent Ideas & Enterprise (TiE), and the German American Business Association (GABA).

Groth holds an M.A.L.D. and a Ph.D. in international affairs (with a focus on international business, technology management, and political economy) from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He holds a B.A. in international relations and an M.A.I.P.S. in international policy studies with a business and economics focus from MIIS.

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Hans Hoogeveen

Director General of Dutch Agricultural Ministry
Dialoguer, Dialogue 3

Hans Hoogeveen is Director of the Department of International Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in the Netherlands. He served as Chair of the seventh session of the UN Forum on Forests and as President of the Sixth Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He has participated in numerous international negotiations and world summits, including the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Water Forum and the World Food Summit.

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Gary Howorth

Senior Director, PFC Energy
Dialoguer, Dialogue 3

Gary Howorth is Senior Director, Consulting and Market Dynamics in the Global Gas Group. In addition, he provides insight to current and future strategic/political issues using advanced modeling techniques. Howorth joined the company in 2003, bringing twenty-five years of experience in the quantification of strategic issues, investment appraisal and operations, with particular emphasis on power & gas markets, including its impact on power generation and transportation (oil, gas and LNG). He regularly works with the management of both large oil and gas companies, on various oil and gas topics ranging from mature assets, partnering, risk management and gas markets.

Prior to joining PFC Energy, Howorth held a number of technical, commercial and strategic roles at BP Exploration (1982-1992). This was followed by eight years with Arthur Andersen heading up a Consultancy practice within their Petroleum Services Group. Finally he spent three years at PA Consulting developing risk management frameworks for a variety of energy companies (Oil, Gas, Chemicals and Power)

Howorth graduated from the University of Southampton and the University of Strathclyde. He is a chartered engineer (MIET), a member of the Institute of Energy and has an MBA.

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Amory Lovins

Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Dialoguer, Dialogue 1

Mr. Lovins cofounded and leads the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), an independent market-oriented, entrepreneurial, nonprofit, nonpartisan think-and-do tank that creates abundance by design. Much of RMI’s pathfinding work on advanced resource productivity and innovative business strategies is synthesized in Natural Capitalism.

More than 80 Fortune 500 firms have lately used or invited RMI’s consultancy. RMI earns most of its revenue from such programmatic enterprise, including the superefficient redesign of $30 billion worth of facilities in 29 sectors, and has spun off four for-profit firms. His Pentagon-cosponsored 29th book on eliminating U.S. oil use led by business for profit is Winning the Oil Endgame.

Mr. Lovins is a MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist who has advised the energy and other industries for 34 years as well as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. His work in 50+ countries has been recognized by the “Alternative Nobel,” Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, nine honorary doctorates, honrary membership of the American Institute of Architects, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Jean Meyer, Time Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards. He advises industries and governments worldwide, and has briefed 19 heads of state.

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Vincent P. Manno

Associate Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University
Opening Ceremonies

Vincent Manno is Associate Provost and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, MA. His role as Associate Provost is to coordinate graduate education across the university and oversee several key cross-school initiatives including the Institute for Global Leadership and the Tufts Institute of the Environment. He was Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1993-2001, Associate Dean of Engineering from 2002-5, and Interim Dean of Engineering in 2003. He received a BS from Columbia University and MS, Engineer's and Doctor of Science degrees from M.I.T. His field of expertise is computational thermal-fluid dynamics including applications in power production, electronics thermal management, and thermal manufacturing processes. He has authored or co-authored more than 140 journal articles, conference proceeding papers and technical reports. Prof. Manno has also worked in the private sector and served as a U.S. Navy Senior Summer Faculty Fellow. His research has been supported by government agencies and industry. He is a recipient of the SAE's Ralph R. Teetor Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in the Thermal Analysis of Electronic Equipment, the ASME Curriculum Innovation Award and the Tufts University Fischer Award as Engineering Teacher of the Year. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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David H. Marks

Goulder Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, MIT Co-director, Masdar Initiative, Abu Dhabi

Professor Marks’ research focuses on sustainable development, environmental engineering, industrial ecology, and water resource systems. Through his work as director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, he tries to foster collaboration among industry, government, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the public to address the complex interrelationships between energy and the environment, and the technological, economic, and social aspects of sustainable energy development and use.

Teaching Interests include sustainable development, environmental engineering, industrial ecology, and water resource systems. Education: B.C.E. 1962 Cornell University M.S. 1964 Cornell University Ph.D. 1969 John Hopkins University.

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Kamal Meattle

CEO, Paharpur Business Center and Software Technology Incubator Park, India
Dialoguer, Dialogue 1

Mr. Kamal Meattle is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park (PBC) in New Delhi, India. PBC, which Meattle established in 1990, is now the leading provider of office facilities and support services to corporations operating in New Delhi. It is an environmentally friendly one-stop-shop for international businesses entering the country, and offers numerous services. Most of PBC’s clients are included in the list of Fortune 500 Firms. It prides itself in being the first building of its kind that meets international standards: PBC is ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996, SA 8000:2001, OSHAS 18001:1999 and HACCP certified with a Commitment to the United Nations Global Compact.

Under Mr. Meattle, PBC was showcased in Johannesburg in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) as one of the four firms from India that has made a contribution to sustainable development in business. According to Technology Review, Meattle is planning to use photovoltaic strips to provide power for his next office hotel, the Haryana Technology Park, which is scheduled to open later this year.

Mr. Meattle is a longtime environmental activist and has worked to keep limit pollution in New Delhi. He has founded several NGOs like Save the Tree Organization (STO), Save Two Wheeler’s on Polluting Delhi (STOP), and Nehru Place Greens Society (NPG). Mr. Meattle is the Founder and Director of several companies with interest in services, packaging, perfumery, and chemicals.

He is also a Fellow at the Institute of Standard Engineers and holds worldwide patents in the area of environment-friendly flexible packaging systems.

Mr. Meattle is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Management.

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Dr. William R. Moomaw

Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy
Introduction; Moderator, Dialogue 1

William Moomaw is a Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School, where he founded the International Environment and Resource Policy Program and co-founded the Global Development and Environment Institute. He is also Senior Director of the, interdisciplinary, university-wide, Tufts Institute of the Environment and Co-Director for the Tufts Climate Initiative (TCI).

He is a physical chemist, who works to translate science and technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools. He was a coordinating lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chapter on greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and a lead author of IPCC reports in 2005 and 2007. As a contributor to the IPCC, Professor Moomaw shared in receiving the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the IPCC’s work in understanding and communicating the risks of global climate change.

Professor Moomaw provides advice to fuel and power sector companies and governments on environmentally significant issues. He was the first director of the Climate Energy and Pollution program at the World Resources Institute, and directed the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College. As a Congressional Science Fellow, he worked on legislation that eliminated the use of CFCs to protect the ozone layer in a cost effective manner, and worked on energy and forestry legislation.

Dr. Moomaw currently serves on the Board of Directors of Earthwatch (a conservation research and education organization), Consensus Building Institute and Clean Air-Cool Planet (addressing climate change and air quality). He has also facilitated sessions with negotiators of international treaties, other diplomats and government, business and non-governmental representatives.

Dr. Moomaw holds a B.A. from Williams College and a PhD in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jose Moreira

President of the Brazilian Biomass User Network, Chairman, CENBIO
Framer, Dialogue 2

Mr. Moreira is Chairman of the Board of Centro Nacional de Referência de Biomassa (CENBIO) sited in São Paulo, Brazil. His current professional and academic posts include:

• Consultant for the Secretariat of Environment, State of São Paulo
• Vice President of the Brazilian Association of Energy Savings Companies (ABESCO)
• Technical Director of Negawatt Ltd. - an ESCO enterprise
• Professor of Physics at the Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo
• Professor of Energy at the Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia da Universidade de São Paulo.

He is an active speaker, presenting at conferences worldwide. He is the author of 210 papers in the area of Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics, Energy Conservation, Energy Planning, Energy and Environment. He has also participated in 370 academic and industry events from which more than 190 outside of Brazil between 1966 – 2002. His professional energy experience includes:

• President of the Brazilian Society for Energy Planning, 1997-2000
• Leading Author of the IPCC-95, subgroup Energy Supply and Energy Primer, Working Group II
• Convening Leading Author of the SRTT (Special Report On Technology Transfer)-IPCC- subgroup Energy Supply, 1999
• Convening Leading Author Of The Third Assessment Report (TAR-IPCC), subgroup on Technological and Economic Issues on Energy Supply and Use, Working Group III, 1998-2000
• Under-Secretary of Energy at the Ministery of Mines and Energy in 1985-1986
• President of the Electricity Conservation Program (PROCEL) 1885-1888
• Vice-President for Studies and Energy Development at CESP - Companhia Energética de São Paulo, from 1983 to 1987.
• Manager of Coque e Álcool da Madeira S.A. from 1980 to 1983

Mr. Moreira is an Electric Engineer with option on Electronics by Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, 1962, holds a Master in Nuclear Physics, Saskatchewan University, Saskatoon / Canadá, 1969 and a PhD in Physics - Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, 1971

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Edward Muller

CEO Mirant-US Power Generation; Co-former CEO of Edison Mission Energy
Dialoguer, Dialogue 1

Ed Muller is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mirant, which is a competitive energy company that produces and sells electricity in the United States. Mirant owns or leases approximately 10,300 megawatts of electric generating capacity from an asset portfolio of 13 power plants strategically located in high-population areas. The company operates an integrated asset management and energy marketing organization from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Prior to joining Mirant, Muller served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison Mission Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edison International. In this position he directed worldwide activities of this independent power producer, and increased earnings from $2.3 million in 1993 to $198 million in 1999. He also led four acquisitions totaling $9.5 billion between mid-1998 and mid-1999, and spearheaded major activities in Australia, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

He has also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors for the New Zealand electric generation company Contact Energy Ltd, and as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of BioWhittaker, Inc. For ten years Muller served in various leadership capacities for Whittaker Corporation, where he was responsible for the negotiation of numerous acquisitions and divestitures, and the structure and implementation of a leveraged recapitalization. Prior to his career in business, Muller was an attorney and is a former law clerk to a U.S. District Court judge. Mr. Muller holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Dan Reifsnyder

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science, U.S. Department of State
Dialoguer, Dialogue 3

Dan Reifsnyder became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science on August 20, 2006. He is responsible for a broad suite of issues related to environmental protection and conservation, including: transboundary air quality, protection of the stratospheric ozone layer, international chemicals management, the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes, persistent organic pollutants, environmental aspects of free trade agreements, international forestry conservation, biological diversity, desertification, wildlife conservation and the protection of wetlands and coral reefs. In these areas, he leads the U.S. delegation under multiple bilateral and multilateral treaties and agreements.

From 1989 to 2006 Mr. Reifsnyder served as Director of the Bureau’s Office of Global Change, where he developed and implemented U.S. policy on global climate change. He played a key role in crafting a wide range of Presidential initiatives, including: the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, the Methane to Markets Partnership, the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy, the Group on Earth Observations, and the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum. He was also instrumental in launching or reinvigorating 15 bilateral climate change agreements and in establishing the U.S. Climate Change Country Studies Program, the U.S. Initiative on Joint Implementation and the International Coral Reef Initiative. From 1989 to 2006, he helped shape the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and co-chaired its Financial Task Team. He was alternate head of the U.S. delegation in negotiations that led to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Mr. Reifsnyder came to the Department of State after 10 years with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in progressively responsible positions. While at NOAA, Mr. Reifsnyder helped negotiate the Pacific Salmon Treaty with Canada, the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic and the Convention on Salmon Conservation the North Atlantic Ocean.

Mr. Reifsnyder holds a J.D. degree from George Washington University, an M.A. degree in Russian Area Studies from Georgetown University, and an A.B. degree in political philosophy from Trinity College (CT).

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Polly Shaw

Director of External Relations, SunTech Power Holdings Co., China
Dialoguer, Dialogue 2

Polly Shaw serves as the Director of External Relations of Suntech America, based in San Francisco. Ms. Shaw focuses her work on monitoring government affairs issues and on actively representing Suntech in key industry associations in the U.S. such as the Solar Energy Industries Association and the Solar Alliance.

Prior to joining Suntech, Ms. Shaw was a Senior Regulatory Analyst at the California Public Utilities Commission where she served as the staff lead to implement the $3.2 billion California Solar Initiative.

She has worked for more than 14 years to design policy models and programs that advance clean, efficient energy use and climate protection in the U.S., and energy efficiency and methane capture programs in the U.S. and China.

Ms. Shaw received a B.A. from Tufts University.

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Eduardo Leão de Sousa

Executive Director UNICA – Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

Eduardo Leão de Sousa is the Executive-Director of UNICA (Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association) since September 2007. Former senior economist at the World Bank, and Cluster Leader for agriculture, rural development and environment. He worked at the World Bank from 2003 to 2007, and prior to that worked in the Brazilian government as the head of agricultural and agroindustrial policies at the Ministry of Economics. In this role, he managed a wide range of activities including support of national agricultural policies, rural credit, international negotiations, and antitrust policy for agroindustrial companies. He is an agronomist and holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from University of Sao Paulo, where he has also worked as a senior researcher and as a professor for the agribusiness MBA course.

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), represents the top producers of sugar and ethanol in the country’s South-Central region, especially the state of São Paulo, which answers for 60% of the country’s total production. Along with its 107 member companies, UNICA develops position papers, statistics and specific research in support of Brazil’s sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity sectors. Its membership accounts for about 50% of Brazil’s sugarcane harvest. In 2007, Brazil produced 425 million metric tons of sugarcane, which yielded 29.8 million tons of sugar and 17.7 billion liters of ethanol.

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Joseph A. Stanislaw

The JAStanislaw Group LLC, Retired CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Dialoguer, Dialogue 3

Joseph A. Stanislaw is founder of the advisory firm The JAStanislaw Group, LLC, specializing in strategic thinking and investment in energy and technology, and Independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte & Touche USA LLP’s Energy & Resources practice. He serves as a member of a number of advisory boards for energy, technology and investment companies. Stanislaw was one of three founders of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in 1983 and served as managing director for all non-U.S. activity until 1997, when he was named president, and later chief executive officer. In late 2004 the CERA partners sold their interests in the company, and Dr. Stanislaw elected to pursue his own business leadership, investment, and charitable activities.

Dr. Stanislaw is an adjunct professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, where he is a Member of the Board of Advisors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. He was a Research Fellow of Clare Hall and lecturer in Economics at Cambridge University, where he was also a member of the Energy Research Group in the University's Cavendish Laboratory. At the University of Cambridge, he co-authored The Economics of Energy: Growth, Resources and Policies. He was a senior economist at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s International Energy Agency in Paris. Dr. Stanislaw is a co-author, with Daniel Yergin, of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy. He is also the author or co-author of numerous reports and published papers on the future of the world economy, geopolitics, and energy. Dr. Stanislaw received a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and was awarded an M.A. from the University of Cambridge when he was elected a Research Fellow of Clare Hall.

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Nick Welch

Head of Stakeholder Relations
Climate Change Group, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Dialoguer, Dialogue 3

Nick Welch is currently leading Shell’s global advocacy effort around CO2. He has worked as Manager, International Relations for Shell Oil Company, based in Washington D.C. since May 2002. Prior to taking up this appointment, he was Head of UK External Relations for Shell International in London. Nick joined Shell in February 1996 as Government Relations Manager, after a number of years in the UK Government. Working first on small firm’s policy and subsequently on large international infrastructure projects, he subsequently served both as Private Secretaries to the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of Energy. Before joining government service he worked as a regional commercial manager in the brewing industry and has also worked as a technical writer and teacher overseas.

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Tulsi R. Tanti—Invited

Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director, Suzlon Energy, India
Dialoguer, Dialogue 2

Mr. Tulsi Tanti is the founder of Suzlon Energy Limited. A mechanical engineer by training, Mr. Tanti is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company, and has led Suzlon to its position as one of the top global wind turbine manufacturers. Under Mr. Tanti’s stewardship, Suzlon has ranked as the leading wind turbine manufacturer in India for eight years running.

Recently Mr. Tanti was recognized as one of TIME magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” for his contribution towards raising awareness and initiating action on global climate change. In addition, Mr. Tanti received the Lifetime Achievement Award for being the “Best Renewable Energy Man of the Decade” in 2006 from the Foundation of Indian Industry and Economists, while the Solar Energy Society of India (SESI) recognized him with the ‘Pioneer Award’ for his contribution to the promotion of Renewable Energy in India.

Mr. Tanti is a commerce graduate and holds a Diploma-in-Mechanical Engineering. He is also the President of the Gujarat Chapter of Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association.

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