Dr. Sergej Mahnovski is Director of the Utility of the Future team at Con Edison. He formerly served as the head of New York City’s energy and sustainability agency for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, where his team was awarded the Citizens Budget Commission Prize for Public Service Innovation in 2013. Previously, Sergej was Director in the Global Power Group at IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a Doctoral Fellow at RAND Corporation. Sergej also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches courses in distributed energy economics and urban energy policy. Sergej is a graduate of Stanford University, with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.A. in History. He received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School.