Manuel Esquivel is Sr. Infrastructure & Energy Planning Fellow at the Boston Planning and Development Agency. He manages the Smart Utilities Vision and Community Energy Planning projects. Manuel obtained a M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. During those two years he worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute creating a model to quantify the energy consumption and GHG emission of India’s passenger transportation sector, as well as at Argonne National Lab creating a cost benefit analysis model for the use of biomass as fuel in Illinois farms. Manuel obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT and worked for 5 years as a Research Scientist in the biotech and mining sectors.