Dr. Rajiv Arya

Chief Executive Officer, Moser Baer Photovoltaic Ltd.
Rajiv Arya is the CEO of Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd.

Rajiv will be instrumental in envisaging company’s plan to attain a 1GW capacity for Moser Baer Photovoltaic Limited across the three verticals—silicon, thin film and concentrators—over the next few years.

He is known and recognized in the industry as a senior technology leader with experience of over 25 years in the solar energy space. He has vast experience in building and integrating professionals into result-oriented multi-disciplinary teams and has been instrumental in scale-up and validation of three thin film technologies from research into production. His knowledge and experience with amorphous silicon, in particular, makes him an industry thought leader.

He joined the company in September 2007 from the California-based OptiSolar Inc., where he was the Chief Technology Officer. He has also been Director of the Oregon Renewable Energy Centre in Portland, Oregon, where he led an organisation with a statewide charter for applied research and education in renewable energy systems and for long years with the Virginia-based BP Solar, a company he joined as a senior project scientist and left 19 years later as Executive Director (Thin Film Technology).

Rajiv has an M. Tech (Material Sciences) degree from IIT, Kanpur and a Ph.D in electrical engineering from Brown University in Rhode Island.

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