meet our club's

leadership team

Charles Belina

Co-President of club

Charles is co-president of the Wharton Energy & Climate Club. Prior to Wharton, he spent 3 years working in consulting in New York, and before that, 2 years researching solar panels and fuel cells in Moscow, Russia.

Emily Goldfield

CO-President of club

Emily is a second-year Wharton MBA candidate focusing on energy, climate, and sustainability. Prior to Wharton, she spent two years at a cleantech startup in the electricity markets space and four years at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). Over the summer, she interned with BCG's Climate & Sustainability practice. Her background is in energy engineering at Stanford University.

Sarah Dar

Co-President of Club & Co-Chair of conference

Sarah is one of the Energy & Climate Club Co-Presidents as well as Co-Chair for the Conference. She has worked in the energy sector in a variety of roles including consulting, finance, and industry.

James Dohm

CO-CHAIR OF CONFERENCE

James is a second-year Wharton MBA candidate focused on the intersection of energy and finance. A chemical engineering undergraduate, James worked in ExxonMobil's project division pre-MBA and at pyrolysis startup Modern Hydrogen during the MBA. He is currently interning with Morgan Stanley's project finance team.

Julia Xiong

CO-CHAIR OF CONFERENCE

Julia is a former venture lender with Silicon Valley Bank, focused on early- to late-stage enterprise software companies, where she caught the bug for supporting mission-driven founders and building startups. At Wharton, Julia has directed her focus on how to intersect that skillset with her passion for climate and sustainability, and is particularly focused on industrial decarbonization and carbon dioxide removal, utilization, and management. Post-MBA, Julia hopes to join an early-stage climatetech company that's commercializing university research around her areas of focus.

Lovely Sharma

VP OF CONTENT TEAM

Lovely is currently a second-year student in the Wharton MBA program. Prior to Wharton, she spent over six years at Schlumberger in various roles, ranging from field engineer to Client Engagement Coordinator and Project Manager. In her role, she advised global energy clients across Russia, India, UAE, Malaysia and the U.S. More recently, she spent time as Category Head at Pristyn Care, a health-tech startup, and diversified her experience as an investor at Sagana, an impact investing. At Wharton, she aims to focus on renewable energy and sustainable technologies.

Shivani Shikha

VP OF CAREERS TEAM

Nishant Desai

VP OF FINANCE TEAM

Nishant previously worked for 5 years in management consulting, where he was a part of Bain & Co.'s Energy practice, focused in Utilities & Renewables. He has also spent time at Inspire Clean Energy, a climate tech & renewable electricity startup.

club

Activities

Happy hours, small group dinners, and parties

We love getting together to hang out. During the spring of 2023 we hosted 20+ dinners at restaurants around Philly, all subsidized at $25/person.

Careers

We have 2Ys who have worked and interned in every possible type of energy & climate job who would love to help you recruit. Our alumni network reaches out to the club to share job opportunities that don't get posted elsewhere. We have an extremely involved and active alumni network (at places like Orsted, Nextera, Form, Redwood Materials, Goldman Sachs’ ENR group, etc).

Panels, speakers series, and podcast

We have many speakers, panels, and events to learn about different sectors and updates within the climate world. Looking for a place you can hang out with people to talk about LCOE, nuclear, battery recycling, hydrogen, off-shore wind, charging infrastructure? This is it.

Wharton Energy & Climate Conference

Oct. 27th at the Union League, this 300+ person conference pulls many people from industry and tons of alumni. This year's theme is "Energy in 3D: Digitize, Decentralize, Decarbonize.” We hope to see you there!