Sonita Lontoh

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Sonita Lontoh is green/clean technology executive focusing on smart grid. In particular, she focuses on how to educate consumers on the benefits of smart grid to help accelerate global adoptions. She is also an advocate for advancing women careers in green technology. She is an expert recognized on Wikipedia and is a frequent speaker/contributor on energy, cleantech, and women leadership issues to publications such as Forbes, MIT Review, CNN Radio, Silicon Valley TV, and others. 

Lontoh is a professional mentor for the TechWomen program, a United States Department of State's women-in-technology initiative under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's leadership to implement President Barack Obama’s vision for greater collaboration between the United States and the emerging leaders in the global communities. Lontoh is the recipient of the Diaspora Award for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Excellence, awarded by the Government of Indonesia to its outstanding diaspora and has been invited to meet in person with the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Lontoh has also been named a Global Emerging Leader Under 40 by the National Association of MBAs.

Lontoh holds a Master of Engineering from MIT, where she was also a cross-registered graduate student at the Harvard Business School. She earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.