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Past Event
March 7, 2024
9:30 am - 10:30 am est
This roundtable is open only to currently enrolled Columbia University students.
Please join the Women in Energy initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student-only breakfast and roundtable discussion with the Senior Director of Research, Professor Melissa Lott. Our discussion will focus on Dr. Lott’s career and her journey from an engineer to the Senior Director of Research at the Center on Global Energy Policy and a professor at the Climate School.
Biography
Dr. Melissa C. Lott is a senior research scholar and director of research at Columbia University’s SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy, where she leads its Power Sector Research Initiative. She specializes in technology and policy research that increases understanding of the impacts of energy systems on air pollution and public health, and applies this to help decision-makers find solutions supporting the low-carbon transition. An engineer at YarCom, Lott was previously assistant vice president of the Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre and held roles at the International Energy Agency and US Department of Energy. She has been featured as a Solar 100 Thought Leader, an IEEE Women in Power, and a Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy.
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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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