Michael Satin

Michael Satin is the Director of the Clean Energy and Environment Office in USAID/India. Mr. Satin joined the Foreign Service in 2005 and is trained as an ecologist at San Francisco State University and applied economist at the University of West Virginia. He speaks French and Wolof, served in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Thailand, Guinea, and Bangladesh, arrived in India in 2016 and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal.

 

 

Ian Jones

Dr. Ian Jones is a lake physicist with more than twenty years’ experience researching lakes, oceans and the atmosphere. He works at the University of Stirling, UK, and specializes in using automated high-frequency data collection and numerical modeling to study the impact physical processes have on all aspects of lake ecology. His recent interests include the effects floating solar panels have on water body ecosystems and the potential for obtaining heat energy from lakes using heat pumps.