Aaron Fuller graduated in 1996 from Howard University with a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, focusing on Environmental Engineering. In 2000, he obtained an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Clemson University. At the University of Stuttgart, in Stuttgart, Germany, Mr. Fuller graduated with an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering with a considered minor in Energy Engineering. In 2007, he joined the Institute of Combustion and Power Plant Technology (IFK) at the University of Stuttgart, Department of Firing Systems. His main activities as a researcher were characterization and utilization of combustion residues (biomass fly ash), experimental and theoretical investigations of biomass combustion and solid recovered fuel co-combustion, empirical and theoretical investigations of pollutant formation, and investigations of operational problems (burn-out) in pulverized fuel boilers within the framework of European (EU) projects as well as industrial projects. He was a German delegate of ISO/TC 300/WG 4 for Solid Recovered Fuels- physical and mechanical Tests from 2016 to 2021. Mr. Fuller completed his dissertation examination requirements in March 2021 at the University of Stuttgart at IFK, thus, earning his doctoral degree.

Ipshita Nandi Banerjee has 18 years of experience in Strategic Communications and Public Affairs. She is specialized in organizational and development sector communications, reputation management, leadership advisory and currently transitioning to enhanced gender-sector responsibilities.  She is working full time with USEA for the past three years as communications and gender lead implementing the ongoing projects the Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP), Advancing Modern Power through Utility Partnerships (AmpUp) funded by USAID, and the Women Energy Leaders, funded by U.S. Department of State. In the past Ipshita has worked as Media Specialist and grants officer, for the U.S. Department of State’s Consulate in Kolkata Public Affairs Section. Ipshita has received five U.S. Department of State meritorious honor awards. She was a journalist early career and has over 150 by-lined news copies to her credit.

Ipshita is the recipent of four U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Awards and has Grants Office Representation Training from the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. She holds a bachelor's degree in Arts - English Literature and Language from Calcutta University, St. Xavier's College, India with a Master’s Degree in Content Creation and Media Management from the School of Convergence, International Management Institute, New Delhi, India. She has an additional Graduate Certificate in Public Policy from Takshashila Institute, Bangalore, India. 

Tom Sarkus has 36 years of technical & managerial experience, including 29 years in project management at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.

He has managed or supervised DOE funding that enabled major clean coal technology demonstration projects, including: Pure Air's 528 MWe SO2 scrubber at Northern Indiana Public Service Company's Bailly Generating Station near Chesterton, IN; Air Products'​ 80,000 gallons/day liquid phase methanol unit at Eastman Chemicals'​ coal-to-chemicals complex in Kingsport, TN; granulated coal injection on a blast furnace at Burns Harbor, IN; coal-based IGCC (integrated gasification combined-cycle) power plants at Wabash River (262 MWe, net; in West Terre Haute, IN) & Tampa Electric's Polk Generating Station (250 MWe, net; near Mulberry, FL); a 265 MWe (net) circulating fluidized-bed boiler at JEA's Northside Station in Jacksonville, FL; and on-site lignite upgrading at Great River Energy's Coal Creek Station in Underwood, ND. Additionally, hosted over 20 technical conferences on topics of unburned carbon in fly ash, SO3, reburning technology, and selective catalytic & non-catalytic reduction technologies for NOx control. Lead author of Coal chapter in The World Scientific Handbook of Energy, Vol 3 (2013).

His specialties include: clean coal technologies; air pollution control technologies; flue gas cleanup; advanced coal-based electric power generation technologies (e.g., fluidized-bed combustion; integrated gasification combined-cycle), carbon capture & sequestration.

David Greeson is a consultant to the carbon capture and power generation industries.  Until his retirement in 2018, David was the Vice President of Development for NRG Energy where he led NRG’s Gulf Coast business development group and the company’s carbon capture program.  David was the developer of the $1 billion Petra Nova project near Houston, TX from inception through commissioning and is now consulting with companies planning development of CO₂ capture projects.   He began his career in the power industry 40 years ago at Houston Lighting & Power.  Over the years, he has developed five major power projects here in the US which represent over $3 billion of investment.