Marisa is an undergraduate student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She first became interested in energy after taking a Sophomore College course on Green Buildings, in which she learned about passive solar design, photovoltaic systems, and new materials used to make buildings more energy efficient. Marisa’s other academic interests include biology and urban studies, and this past summer she received a grant to conduct field research on coastal water quality and microbial pollutants in Southern California. In addition to Energy Crossroads, Marisa is a member of Stanford’s Varsity Sailing Team, Bent Spoon Dance Company, and Students for a Sustainable Stanford.

Tyler is a Master's student in the Atmosphere & Energy Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. While obtaining his degree in electrical engineering at the University of Iowa, Tyler worked with Engineers for a Sustainable World, Tau Beta Pi, and the College of Medicine's Mobile Clinic project in which he helped retrofit a city bus into a functional doctor's-office -on -wheels. He has interned in Facilities Management at the University of Iowa working to reduce campus energy use and development energy management tools, and with Procter and Gamble. At Stanford, Tyler is involved with the Green Dorm Project, the Atmosphere/Energy Wind Project, and Engineers for a Sustainable World.

Coming from Turkey , Ahmet is a sophomore studying "Energy Engineering with a Focus in Business" at Stanford University. He is currently working to institutionalize Energy Crossroads as a student-run umbrella organization for energy-affiliated people at Stanford University. He is interested in world energy markets, clean tech, energy efficiency, electricity generation, grid applications and energy metering, and alternative transportation technologies. Ahmet spent last summer interning in Solitem GmbH, in Germany, where he coordinated a 30 kw PV project for the Gebze Tech Center located in Istanbul and researched integration of organic rankine cycle into new generation solar parabolic troughs on behalf of Solitem GmbH. Ahmet has been nominated by the Turkey Regional Innovational Strategies Forum, a European Union organization to propose regional solution for problems in the energy sector. In his spare time, Ahmet started his own bio-diesel production business back in Turkey

Jonas is an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford University. He is the student representative and a teaching assistant for the Green Dorm Project, which under his co-leadership won $75,000 for student research from the Environmental Protection Agency. His research for the Green Dorm includes solar hot water modeling and shower use profiling; the results of this research are now being used to implement a campus wide shower head retrofit. Jonas spent last spring and summer abroad in his native Germany, where he studied in Berlin, went on weekend bicycle tours, and interned at the Fraunhofer Institute to design a robotic crawler for onsite inspection of wind turbine blades.

Brian is a senior in Stanford University's Mathematical and Computational Sciences program. He is the president of BASES, Stanford's largest student group focused on entrepreneurship and technology management. His previous technical research experience includes nanotechnology research in the MITRE Nanosystems group as well as solar cell research and artificial intelligence research at Stanford University. In addition to research, Brian also has experience as a summer business analyst at McKinsey & Company. A variety of interests occupy the rest of his time and include tennis, jazz, and film. Brian would like to thank everyone who has played a role in bringing this conference together from vision to reality.

Arin is a graduate student in Management Science and Engineering with a concentration in Energy and Development. His self-designed concentration reflects his belief in energy's role as the key element of development, particularly in the developing world. Arin plans to spend the upcoming summer in Beijing working, learning Mandarin, and researching in the Energy, Environment, Economy Institute at Tsinghua University. Upon graduation, he hopes to be involved in the international development of energy projects and is particularly interested in the future of distributed energy technologies.

As a Management Science & Engineering major, Juliet Rothenberg is motivated to change our energy landscape by leveraging market forces. In addition to Energy Crossroads, Juliet also helps coordinate the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar, and she is a financial officer of the Stanford Solar Car Project.

Miki is an undergraduate at Stanford University majoring in International Relations. She has devoted most of her time to studying global security issues surrounding energy, terrorism and development, and is currently interning at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a multidisciplinary community dedicated to research and training in issues of international security. Beyond her major, Miki is very passionate about sustainability, as evidenced by her involvement with Energy Crossroads. She is also helping launch abil magazine, a new online publication about sustainable lifestyles. After graduation she hopes to get involved with various projects targeting sustainability and development, both in the United States and abroad.

Alina is a Stanford junior majoring in International Relations, with a minor in Modern Languages. While at Stanford, she has traveled internationally to present her research at a student conference on global security issues. For the past two summers, she has also studied international business at St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and international law at the London School of Economics, U.K. She hopes to study the geopolitical and international legal ramifications of global energy market shifts in response to changing environmental, economic, and security realities. When she's not traveling, working on Energy Crossroads, or learning a foreign language, she enjoys teaching math to local elementary school kids.

Benjamin is a graduate student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University. His research focuses on the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and energy simulation tools for use in sustainable building design. Before returning to graduate school, Benjamin worked for five years as an energy engineer at the energy consulting firm KEMA/Xenergy. Prior to that he worked as an energy policy analyst at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International Activities. He received his B.S. in Energy Engineering from Stanford University.

Lyuba Wolf is graduating this March from Stanford University with a degree in International Relations where her studies focused on democratic development, especially in the Middle East. After studying the geopolitical and development implications of oil dependency at Stanford's Washington D.C. campus and interning at a democracy promotion organization, Lyuba has spent this year exploring clean energy solutions from public and private sector efforts. It was this background which spurred her to initiate the interdisciplinary collaboration which resulted in Energy Crossroads. Lyuba hopes to find a job this Spring working on a clean energy initiative before she begins her a full-time job at Bain and Company. She hopes to one day apply her management consulting experience to a future career in the clean-tech industry.