I have spent the last 10 years studying and working in the power sector with an ambition to become an international power engineering professional. I have completed consultancy assignments for organisations in 20 countries including: Bangladesh, Botswana, Denmark, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, Uganda, United Kingdom and United States.

Most of the work was based in the belief that there is always a scope to improve electricity access in all parts of the world.

In 2001, I joined a Power Engineering program in NPTI-New Delhi which is in NTPC’s Badarpur thermal power station (705MW) campus. Here I learnt about coal fired power plant, best operation and maintenance practices of Steam Turbines, Boiler and the Alternator.

In 2005, I joined Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd and I was involved in business process re-engineering of utility commercial processes meter reading, billing and revenue collection; I used GIS based like GE Small World, rolled out AMR and developed a smart metering communication hub to automate billing. I also worked as a grid maintenance engineer for 33/11kV substations and was involved in replacing old grid assets and implementation of SCADA.

In 2008, I joined University of Leeds, UK for a full time MBA program and studied in a class with students from 29 countries. I was chosen to represent University of Leeds in European summer school of advance management in Denmark. As an MBA student, I did consultancy project with DONG Energy in Denmark on photovoltaic technology and a MBA summer internship with British Gas on roll out of smart metering program.

I then joined PPA Energy and since inception, I have worked on more than 30 assignments of different scope. My clients include blue-chip multinationals (Power and Oil), National/state utilities (Eskom), private companies (EDF Energy) and donor agencies (The World Bank), private investors, regulatory bodies (Ofgem) and academic institutions (Imperial College London).