Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah (born August 30, 1974) was the director of the Loan Programs Office in the US Department of Energy from March 2021 to January 2025. Since the passing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act through Congress in 2021 and 2022, the funds to the Loan Programs Office increased tenfold from $40 billion to $400 billion in order to commercialize emerging clean energy technologies. Shah led the office in administering loans to clean energy technologies majorly advancing the Biden Administration’s efforts to bring clean energy into the United States.

Prior to the Loan Programs Office, Shah gained prominence as an American clean energy entrepreneur, author and podcast host. Shah is known for work to create and advocate for market-driven solutions to climate change. He authored the book ''Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy,'' published in 2013.

Shah maintains that climate wealth is created when mainstream investors team up with entrepreneurs, corporations, mainstream capital, and governments at scale to solve the big problems of our time while generating compelling financial returns – not concessionary returns. Provided by Wikipedia