Sebastian Groh
BRAC UniversityDr. Groh is a 2013 Stanford Ignite Fellow from Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a PhD from Aalborg University and the Postgraduate School Microenergy Systems at the TU Berlin where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of energy in development processes, energy poverty & technical innovations, with a special focus on Bangladesh. He co-edited two books and multiple journal articles on the topic of decentralized electrification in the Global South. Dr. Groh teaches the social entre- and intrapreneurship practicum via OSUN. In 2014, Dr. Groh is the founder & CEO of the cleantech startup SOLshare. On behalf of SOLshare, he received numerous awards, among them Tech Pioneer ‘18 by the World Economic Forum, Finalist at the Earthshot Prize 2021, and winner of the Zayed Sustainability Prize in 2022. Dr. Groh became an Ashoka Fellow in 2018.
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