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Student Roundtable and Lunch with Áine Greene

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February 28, 2024

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm est

This roundtable is open only to currently enrolled Columbia University students.

The Women in Energy initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA and Columbia University’s Society of Women Engineers invites you to join a student roundtable featuring Áine Greene, research associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy. The discussion will focus on Áine’s career, research, and how she transitioned from the private sector to academia as an engineer. Lunch will be provided.

Biography

Áine Greene is a research associate and program manager for the Energy Systems Modeling and Data Analytics (ESMA) Program at the Center on Global Energy Policy. In this role, she focuses on managing strategically important research projects related to decarbonization, the power sector, and other related topics. Her responsibilities include directly supporting Senior Research Scholar, Dr. James Glynn in his areas of expertise.

Before joining Columbia University, Áine was a senior project manager for Atlantic Projects Company, working in the power generation industry across Ireland, the UK, and Europe. She was primarily involved in managing engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects of newly built power plants and delivering major refurbishment projects for aging thermal power plants. Prior to this private industry experience, she worked for the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), the largest Utility state-owned company in Ireland. During this time, she held a variety of roles in power generation across plant engineering, maintenance, operations, and production. She joined the Center with eighteen years of experience in the power sector.

Áine has a further association with the Centre for Project Management (CPM) at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She was selected as an industry-leading project manager to work in a moderator role at the CPM, supervising master’s students on a part-time basis. 

Áine holds a Master’s Degree in Project and Programme Management from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway and has achieved Chartered Engineer (Professional Engineer) accreditation.

Registration is required. This roundtable is open only to currently-enrolled Columbia University students. To register, you must sign in with your UNI. 

This event will be hosted in person and capacity is limited. We ask that you register only if you can attend this event in its entirety. 

For more information about the event, please contact [email protected]

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