Dr. Varun Sivaram is CEO and Founder of Emerald AI, which transforms AI data centers into flexible power grid assets. A WEF Technology Pioneer and one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies of 2026, Emerald AI is solving the energy bottleneck for AI and is backed by seven Fortune 500 companies including NVIDIA. Dr. Sivaram was formerly the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Orsted A/S (NASDAQ: DOGEF), a $20 billion energy firm, and he previously served as Chief Technology Officer of India’s largest clean energy company, ReNew Power (NASDAQ: RNW). He also served as a senior U.S. diplomat 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 to 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. The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, TIME Magazine named Dr. Sivaram to its TIME 100 Climate list, and MIT Technology Review named him one of the top 35 innovators under 35. A Rhodes and Truman Scholar, he holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford University and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.