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Clementine Chambon is CTO and Co-Founder at Oorja. She brings technical expertise in the cost-effective sizing, operations and maintenance of decentralised energy systems including biomass, solar PV, diesel and grid resources. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral research on second generation biofuels and then moved into techno-economic feasibility studies of energy technologies for rural electrification in South Asia.

Clementine has 10 years’ experience as a renewable energy researcher and consultant for the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, New Climate Economy and the European Commission. She holds an M.Eng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. She speaks French, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and conversational Hindi.

She has gained extensive field experience working in India over the past seven years. Clementine was selected as an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, Global Good Fund Fellow, Forbes30Under30 Social Entrepreneur, 100 Most Influential People in UK-India Relations, MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 and Social Innovator of the Year, Salters’ Institute Centenary Award winner, Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year, and IChemE Global Young Researcher.