Dr. Varun Sivaram is Founder and CEO of Emerald AI, a technology company that enables AI data centers to flexibly consume electricity and bolster the power grid. He is also senior fellow for energy and climate at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). 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 served as a senior U.S. diplomat as the 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 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 he holds a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.