Atanu Mukherjee is CEO of Dastur Energy Inc. and M. N. Dastur & Co (P) Ltd. (Dastur). Dastur works with the energy, materials, and commodity industry globally in areas related to strategy, technology, engineering, economics, and finance. In clean energy, Atanu advises enterprises, governments and international institutions on energy transition, industrial strategy, carbon, and climate engineering. In the recent past, he has been working with the US Department of Energy, the Niti Aayog, and the Government of India on energy innovation, policy, economics, and technology directions for transitioning to low-carbon fuels, clean power, clean chemicals, clean cement and clean steel. His firm also advises enterprises, private equity firms and investors on project development, project engineering, project finance, asset revitalization, M&As and investment strategies for metals, mining, energy and commodity related businesses. Prior to working in the energy sector, Atanu was in senior leadership positions at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA and Digital Equipment Corporation in Boston, MA. Atanu holds a joint graduate degree in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Engineering and The MIT Sloan School of Management and is a graduate fellow at Stanford University in Energy & Chemical Engineering. He was a Research Fellow at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where his team’s pioneering research laid the groundwork for powering core components of today’s internet infrastructure. He has over 50 publications in energy, materials, economics, and computer science and holds multiple patents. He was elected to the World’s Who’s Who in Science and Engineering in 2012. Atanu is an avid golfer, a pianist and a private pilot and shares his time between Austin, TX and Kolkata, India.