Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, USA
Stratos Tavoulareas has more than 45 yrs experience in the energy sector especially in:
- Power generation technologies;
- Financing energy projects; and
- Power sector planning, policies and strategy.
He is an engineer by training with graduate degrees in mechanical engineering and management. He has worked for Combustion Engineering Inc. (presently part of General Electric), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the World Bank Group and his own advisory firm (Energy Technologies Enterprises Corp – EnTEC).
He has worked in more than 80 countries around the world mainly through the World Bank Group. His position before retiring (2019) was Global Power Sector Lead for Energy Advisory at the International Finance Corp. Since retiring, he is working almost exclusively on decarbonization and the energy transition. Recent assignments include Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Caribbean Islands, Egypt, Greece, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Vietnam. Also, he is teaching a graduate course on energy transition as part of the M.S. Sustainability Program at Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA).
EDUCATION
- S. in Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford, CT, 1983.
- S. in Mechanical Engineering, NYU/Polytechnic, New York, 1980.
- Diploma in Mechanical-Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1978.
