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Ben Hertz-Shargel

Ben Hertz-Shargel

Global Head of Grid Edge , Wood Mackenzie

Ben Hertz-Shargel is Global Head of Grid Edge at Wood Mackenzie, where he leads research across electrification, grid digitalization,
distributed energy resources, and flexibility in electricity markets. He came to Wood Mackenzie from Rhythm, a retail clean energy provider,
where he was Head of Data Science and Demand Management. Prior to that Ben was Vice President, Advanced Grid Services and Analytics
at EnergyHub, where he was responsible for analytics within the company’s distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) and
energy market operations.
Ben is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and serves on the external Advisory Committee of the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment Program and the Advisory Committee for the Pew Charitable Trusts’ DER policy initiative. He
holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Northwestern, an M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at New York University, and a
Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA.

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