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Blandine Antoine: Third year PhD student in the Engineering Systems Division of MIT; alumna from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Ponts-Paristech. Past work includes studying energy management institutions in developing countries (including Senegal, South Africa and Zambia) for the French Development Agency. Co-author of an award-nominated book on energy technologies and co-founder of Prométhée, a French NGO dedicated to raising awareness on climate change and energy challenges. |
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Emmanuel Cassimatis: MBA from Harvard Business School. Founder and president of Paper for All, an NGO that distributes academic resources to primary schools in Burkina Faso. Brings experience in management consulting, finance, marketing and project management. |
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Alla Jezmir: Joint degree recipient from Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School with a background in public sector consulting and international development. Brings SME-consulting experience in Kenya, Swaziland, and India, cleantech investment banking, and work on a USAID-funded wind project in Morocco. |
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Rhonda Jordan: Third year PhD student in the Engineering Systems Division of MIT with a background in electrical engineering, a broad knowledge of energy technologies and previous experience working to increase rural electrification in East Africa with the United Nations Environment Program. |
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Benjamin Lambert: Joint degree recipient from the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. Former Peace Corps Volunteer, Mali. Brings project management experience and private equity investing experience in microfinance throughout Africa. |
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Jukka Valimaki: Second year MBA student at MIT Sloan with a degree in Technology Management and Policy from the Helsinki School of Economics. Jukka brings to the team experience in project management and business development in consumer services. |
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Jamie Yang: PhD in Nuclear Science from MIT with a broad engineering background including modeling and design work for IBM and for a microbial fuel cell start-up. Developer of EGG-energy’s technology platform. Previously a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. |
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Mark Yen: Third year undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, with a focus on international development. Worked in Tanzania with MIT D-Lab (development lab) on water, health, and education projects and is currently studying abroad in the UK. |