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{{short description | American physicist and political advisor}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1989}}
| birth_name = Varun Srinivasan Sivaram
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| doctoral_advisor = [[Henry Snaith]]<ref name=varphd>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Simulation, synthesis, sunlight: enhancing electronic transport in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells|first= Varun|last=Sivaram|year=2014|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0824a954-e9a9-4f14-a6b4-675652d01d4e|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.596004}}|oclc=879390655}} {{free access}}</ref>
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* [[Stanford University]] (BS, BA)
* [[University of Oxford]] (DPhil)}}
| awards = [[Rhodes Scholarship]]
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| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596004
| workplaces = [[Ørsted_(company)|Ørsted]]<br/>[[Biden
| spouse = Laxmi Parthasarathy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elle.in/article/dr-varun-sivaram/|title=Physicist Dr Varun Sivaram on sustainability, his new projects, and more|publisher=Elle Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-06-17}}</ref>
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'''Varun Srinivasan Sivaram''' (born 1989) is an American physicist, clean energy executive, and former U.S. diplomat. He is Group Senior Vice President, member of the Group Executive Team, and Head of Strategy, Innovation, Portfolio, and Partnerships and M&A at [[Ørsted (company)|Ørsted]], a clean energy company with the world's largest offshore wind energy portfolio.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Group Executive Team |url=https://orsted.com/en/who-we-are/our-organisation/management/group-executive-team |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=orsted.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ørsted Announces Dr. Varun Sivaram as Group Senior Vice President for Strategy and Innovation |url=https://us.orsted.com/news-archive/2023/02/orsted-announces-dr-varun-sivaram-as-group-senior-vice-president-for-strategy-and-innovation |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=us.orsted.com |language=en}}</ref> He has previously served in the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] as managing director for clean energy and senior advisor to [[U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate]] [[John Kerry]], as the [[chief technology officer]] (CTO) of [[ReNew Power]], India's largest renewable energy company, on the faculty of Columbia University, as the director of the energy and climate program at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] (CFR), and as a senior energy advisor to the mayor of Los Angeles and governor of New York.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Varun Sivaram |url=https://www.weforum.org/people/varun-sivaram/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=World Economic Forum |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Varun Sivaram |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/varun-sivaram/ |access-date=2021-07-10 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Columbia {{!}} SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy {{!}} Dr. Varun Sivaram Joins Biden-Harris Administration as Senior Adviser to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate |url=https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/dr-varun-sivaram-joins-biden-harris-administration-senior-adviser-special-presidential-envoy-climate |access-date=2021-07-10 |website=www.energypolicy.columbia.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=N|first1=Sushma U.|title=India's largest renewable power company is set to go public|url=https://qz.com/india/1273575/renew-power-ipo-indias-largest-renewable-power-producer-is-set-to-go-public/|access-date=2019-01-09|website=qz.com|date=May 10, 2018 |publisher=Quartz India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ReNew Power Expands Leadership Team Announces Three Strategic Hires|url=https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/business/2018/10/11/pwr17--renew%20power.html|access-date=2019-01-09|website=theweek.in|publisher=The Week|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/varun-sivaram/|title=Varun Sivaram|work=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref>
== Education ==
Dr. 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|Truman Scholarship]]. He also holds a [[PhD]] in [[condensed matter physics]] from the [[University of Oxford]], [[St. John's College, Oxford|St. John's College]],<ref name=varphd/> where he was a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]. While at Oxford, his research investigated the use of [[perovskite solar cell]]s and was supervised by [[Henry Snaith]].<ref name=varphd/><ref name="energypolicy.columbia.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/dr-varun-sivaram|title=Columbia {{!}} SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy {{!}} Dr. Varun Sivaram|website=energypolicy.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref>
== Career and research==
Sivaram's professional experience spans the public, academic, and private sectors. He is currently Group Senior Vice President and a member of the Group Executive Team at [[Ørsted (company)|Ørsted]], where he oversees Group corporate strategy, the development and deployment of transformative technologies and digital innovations, portfolio strategy and capital allocation, and partnerships and M&A.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":2" /> He previously served in the administration of President [[Joe Biden]] as managing director for clean energy and senior advisor to the U.S. [[U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate|Special Presidential Envoy for Climate]] [[John Kerry]], where he created the First Movers Coalition.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Friedman |first=Lisa |date=2022-05-25 |title=Corporations Pledge to Buy 'Green' at Davos Gathering |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/climate/corporate-climate-pledges-davos.html |access-date=2023-06-07 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> His policy experience also includes serving as senior energy advisor to [[Los Angeles]] Mayor [[Antonio Villaraigosa|Antonio R. Villaraigosa]] and [[New York (state)|New York]] Governor [[Andrew Cuomo]].<ref name="la">{{Cite journal|last1=Villaraigosa|first1=Mayor Antonio R.|last2=Sivaram|first2=Varun|last3=Nichols|first3=Ron|date=2013|title=Powering Los Angeles with renewable energy|journal=Nature Climate Change|language=en|volume=3|issue=9|pages=771–775|bibcode=2013NatCC...3..771V|doi=10.1038/nclimate1985|issn=1758-678X}}</ref> In his academic career, he has served on the faculty of the [[Georgetown University School of Foreign Service]] and the [[Columbia University]] [[Center on Global Energy Policy]]. In the private sector, he served as the Chief Technology Officer of [[ReNew Power]], a multibillion-dollar company that is India's largest producer of renewable energy, and was earlier a consultant for [[McKinsey & Company|McKinsey & Co]].<ref name="ted" /> Sivaram serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council and the Breakthrough Institute and is a [[World Economic Forum]] [[Young Global Leaders|Young Global Leader]] and member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Atlantic Council |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New Class |url=https://www.younggloballeaders.org/new-class/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=The Forum of Young Global Leaders |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Council on Foreign Relations |language=en}}</ref> He has also served on the boards of the [[Stanford University]] Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy; as one of the 25 advisors to the UN [[COP26]] climate conference in 2021, on the [[World Economic Forum]]'s Global Future Council for the Energy Transition; as senior fellow at the [[Aspen Institute]], ITIF, and Energy for Growth; and on the board of directors of Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE:PDAC).<ref name=ted>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/varun_sivaram|title=TED Speaker: Varun Sivaram, Clean energy executive, physicist, author|website=TED|access-date=2020-10-07}}</ref>
=== Books ===
Sivaram is the author of ''Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet.''<ref name=taming>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cfr.org/book/taming-sun|title=Taming the Sun|language=en|
Sivaram is also lead author of ''Energizing America: A Roadmap to Launch a National Energy Innovation Mission.''<ref name=energizing>{{Cite book|title=Energizing America|language=en|isbn=9780578758527|publisher=[[Columbia University]] [[Center on Global Energy Policy]]|year=2020}}</ref> Along with co-authors Colin Cunliff, David Hart, Julio Friedmann, and David Sandalow, Sivaram calls for the United States to triple federal funding for clean energy innovation to $25 billion by 2025 to speed global clean energy transitions and cultivate advanced U.S. energy industries that can compete in growing markets around the world. According to ''Bloomberg'', "The book details down to the budget line item exactly how much money America should spend and how it should spend it."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-05/this-is-how-the-government-can-ramp-up-climate-tech-investment|title=Physicist Varun Sivaram talks about his roadmap to help the next president increase energy innovation|newspaper=Bloomberg|access-date=2020-10-07|date=2020-10-05}}</ref>
Sivaram is the editor of ''Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems'' <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/digital-revolution-transforming-energy-whether-it-slows-climate-change-policymakers|title=The Digital Revolution Is Transforming Energy—Whether It Slows Climate Change Is Up to Policymakers|isbn=9780876097489|website=Council on Foreign Relations|language=en|access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref> The volume brings together fourteen expert authors who lay out a wide range of areas in which digital technologies are promoting clean energy systems; caution about serious risks of digitalization to cybersecurity and privacy; and articulate actionable recommendations for policymakers in the United States and abroad to ensure that digital innovations help advance the fight against climate change.▼
▲Sivaram is the editor of ''Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems.''
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[[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."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/722831701026742272|title=Bill Gates on Twitter|newspaper=Twitter|access-date=2016-11-21}}</ref> The [[Financial Times]] called his book ''Taming the Sun'' "the best available overview of where the industry finds itself today, and a road map for how it can reach that brighter future," and [[The Economist]] called it "prescient...and readable."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cfr.org/book/taming-sun|title=Taming the Sun - CFR Book Page|website=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=2018-01-01}}</ref> His [[Ted Talk|TED talk]] on India's clean energy transition has been viewed more than one million times.<ref>{{Citation|last=Sivaram|first=Varun|title=How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition|date=October 10, 2020 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/varun_sivaram_how_india_could_pull_off_the_world_s_most_ambitious_energy_transition|language=en|access-date=2021-07-10}}</ref> ''TIME'' Magazine named him to its inaugural TIME 100 Next list of the next hundred most influential people in the world; ''[[MIT Technology Review]]'' named him one of its top 35 innovators under 35; ''Forbes'' named him to its 30 under 30 in Law and Policy; ''Grist'' named him one of its top 50 leaders in sustainability; and ''PV Magazine'' called him "The Hamilton of the Solar Industry."<ref>{{Cite
=== Publications ===
*''Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet'' (MIT Press, 2018 {{ISBN|9780262037686}})<ref name=taming/>
*''Energizing America: A Roadmap to Launch a National Energy Innovation Mission'' (Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, 2020 {{ISBN|9780578758527}})<ref name=energizing/>
*''[https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780876097489 Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems]'' (Council on Foreign Relations Press, June 2018 {{ISBN|9780876097489}})
* "The Geopolitical Implications of a Clean Energy Future from the Perspective of the United States," in Scholten, Dan (ed.), ''[https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319678542 The Geopolitics of Renewables]'' (Springer, January 2018 {{ISBN|978-3-319-67854-2}}).
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* "[http://energy.mit.edu/publication/venture-capital-cleantech/ Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Energy Innovation]." MIT Energy Institute, 2016.
* "[https://www.ft.com/content/917de65a-4500-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1 Clean Energy Technology Investors Need Fresh Support after VC Losses]." ''Financial Times'' 26 July 2016.
* "Solar Power Needs a More Ambitious Cost Target"<ref name="SivaramKann2016">{{cite journal|last1=Sivaram|first1=Varun|last2=Kann|first2=Shayle|title=Solar power needs a more ambitious cost target|journal=Nature Energy|volume=1|issue=4|year=2016|pages=16036|issn=2058-7546|doi=10.1038/nenergy.2016.36|bibcode=2016NatEn...116036S|s2cid=167847570 }}</ref>
* "[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/perovskite-solar-cells-could-beat-the-efficiency-of-silicon/ Outshining Silicon]." ''Scientific American'' 2015.
* "[https://law.stanford.edu/reach-for-the-sun-how-indias-audacious-solar-ambitions-could-make-or-break-its-climate-commitments/ Reach for the Sun: How India's Audacious Solar Ambitions Could Make or Break Its Climate Commitments]." Stanford University Steyer-Taylor Center on Energy Policy and Finance, 2015.
* ''Powering Los Angeles with Renewable Energy''<ref name=la/>
* ''Observation of Annealing-Induced Doping in TiO 2 Mesoporous Single Crystals for Use in Solid State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells''<ref name="SivaramCrossland2014">{{cite journal|last1=Sivaram|first1=Varun|last2=Crossland|first2=Edward J. W.|last3=Leijtens|first3=Tomas|last4=Noel|first4=Nakita K.|last5=Alexander-Webber|first5=Jack|last6=Docampo|first6=Pablo|last7=Snaith|first7=Henry J.|title=Observation of Annealing-Induced Doping in TiO2 Mesoporous Single Crystals for Use in Solid State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells|journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry C|volume=118|issue=4|year=2014|pages=1821–1827|issn=1932-7447|doi=10.1021/jp410495k}}</ref>
* ''Critique of Charge Collection Efficiencies Calculated through Small Perturbation Measurements of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells''<ref name="SivaramKirkpatrick2013">{{cite journal|last1=Sivaram|first1=Varun|last2=Kirkpatrick|first2=James|last3=Snaith|first3=Henry|title=Critique of charge collection efficiencies calculated through small perturbation measurements of dye sensitized solar cells|journal=Journal of Applied Physics|volume=113|issue=6|year=2013|pages=
* ''Mesoporous TiO2 Single Crystals Delivering Enhanced Mobility and Optoelectronic Device Performance''<ref name="CrosslandNoel2013">{{cite journal|last1=Crossland|first1=Edward J. W.|last2=Noel|first2=Nakita|last3=Sivaram|first3=Varun|last4=Leijtens|first4=Tomas|last5=Alexander-Webber|first5=Jack A.|last6=Snaith|first6=Henry J.|title=Mesoporous TiO2 single crystals delivering enhanced mobility and optoelectronic device performance|journal=Nature|volume=495|issue=7440|year=2013|pages=215–219|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/nature11936|pmid=23467091|bibcode=2013Natur.495..215C|s2cid=4431825}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
*''[https://www.ted.com/talks/varun_sivaram_how_india_could_pull_off_the_world_s_most_ambitious_energy_transition TED Talk: How India Could Pull Off the World's Most Ambitious Energy Transition]''
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFqKHKWc20 ''Taming the Sun'' launch video, produced by CFR (4 minutes)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9u0DHLj6IQ BBC World News (5 minutes)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ipY_jcgGFI Oxford Union Debate: You Should Be Proud to be Patriotic (11 minutes)]
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