Economics Seminar | Off-Grid Solar in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Energy?
| Event | Off-Grid Solar in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Energy? |
|---|---|
| Speaker | Dr Ognen STOJANOVSKI Research Scholar Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), Stanford University, USA |
| Date | 18 January 2018, Thursday |
| Venue | HSS Meeting Room 1 (HSS-03-65) |
| Time | 11:00am – 12:00pm |
All are welcome to attend the seminar.
Biography
Dr Ognen Stojanovski's background is in law (J.D. from Stanford in 2007 with distinction) and engineering (M.A. and B.A. from UC Berkeley in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research with highest honors), and he is keenly interested in the intersection of energy and the developing world.
Dr Stojanovski has been affiliated with Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University since 2005. He is charged with project management and detailed implementation of PESD’s research platform on low-income energy services.
His current research focuses on measuring and quantifying the economic and social welfare impacts of solar PV products in developing countries (especially East Africa), as well as identifying innovations in the off-grid solar industry that can improve business performance and maximize customer benefits. He is leading several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the African solar PV space.
His other primary area of research is the Mexican energy sector. During the summer of 2015, he led a group of Stanford students in conducting an RCT in Puebla, Mexico, to explore how households use electricity and test whether information about electricity pricing and conservation leads to changes in behavior. He was also part of PESD's research on national oil companies and authored the chapter about Pemex and the Mexican oil sector in the book, Oil and Governance: State-owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply.
Dr Stojanovski is an active member of the State Bar of California and has advised clients on a wide range of corporate legal issues. He currently serves as the manager of a Bay Area start-up.