Interim Director, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)
Founding Director, MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design
Session Chair, Energy Futures
2:20 PM — 3:10 PM ET
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Biography
Robert Stoner is the interim director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), and founding director of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. A physicist, Stoner is the inventor of numerous computational and ultrafast optical measurement techniques, and has led successful technology firms in the semiconductor, IT, and optics industries. Before coming to MIT in 2009, he lived and worked in Africa and India while serving in a variety of senior roles within the Clinton Foundation, including as the CEO of the Clinton Development Initiative, and director of the Clinton Climate Initiative for Africa. His present research at MIT focuses on energy technology and policy in the context of energy systems and business models in the developing world.