Maha Mahasenan is Principal Policy Advisor at Hydrogen Energy California (a joint venture between BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto) that is focused on developing low-carbon baseload power project based on integrated gasification combined cycle technology with carbon capture and sequestration in Kern County, California. His responsibilities include liaising with regulatory and policy-making bodies on climate policy and incentives for clean electricity generation, and coordinating various project applications and filings in collaboration with other project partners. Previously, he was at Rio Tinto’s U.S. coal business, where he was responsible for managing business and technical impacts of environmental regulations and climate legislation. He has spent more than a decade working on various aspects of carbon sequestration, clean coal technology and climate policy. He serves on the Technical Committee of the Coal Utilization Research Council and the FutureGen Industrial Alliance, and is also an appointee to the Wyoming Energy Research Council. Maha has degrees in Engineering in Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering.