Sergey Yelkin has been the coordinator of USAID energy projects in Central Asia for twenty years. He participated in the development of a number of regional projects and holding tenders for programs on the regional electricity market, energy interconnections, development of electricity generation from renewable sources. He worked on projects and was engaged in monitoring their successful implementation in the field of energy saving, energy efficiency, the introduction of renewable energy facilities, measures to change the climate and environmental protection. Mr. Yelkin has over 35 years of experience in a research and production, in the oil and gas sector and industrial enterprises in Russia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia. He worked at the UN Office in Kazakhstan on energy saving and renewable energy projects. He has education in Engineering and holds a Master of Economics.