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Page of Allart LigtenbergPROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND OF ALLART (Al) LIGTENBERG:Allart Ligtenberg has BSEE, MSEE, Drs. degrees from the Technological University of Delft, The Netherlands. He has 40 years of experience as an engineer, engineering & manufacturing manager, marketing director, and president.
In 1992 Allart retired from his Hewlett-Packard engineering manager's job, to follow his dream of promoting and teaching solar cooking/water pasteurization and other sustainable technologies in developing countries (and US). Allart started solar cooking programs in Nepal where this method was not practiced. His efforts resulted in long-term solar cooking/drying and water purification programs. This program improves the environment and reduces health problems caused by contaminated water and open fire cooking. He returns each year to follow up for typically 3 months to ensure sustainability. He spends 2 more months each year in other developing countries. He developed Friendly Appropriate Solar Technologies (FAST), a volunteer-only network, to implement sustainable projects in Nepal, Mongolia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile. The Dutch governments' Foreign Aid organization NMCP (Netherlands Management Cooperation Program) selected Allart as a Senior Volunteer Expert in solar technologies (solar cooking/drying/water pasteurization and Photo-Voltaic), business management, and process control. He was sent on three 3-months volunteer missions to Nepal and Mongolia. He is an Honorary Advisor of Solar Cookers International (SCI) and Advisor to NGO's (Non Government Organizations) in Nepal. He is on the Board of Bali-i Company, a Sustainable Tourism Franchise start-up company that develops ECO-tourism centers and WEB-DOCTOR (remote medical care) capability. Allart has authored and presented a variety of papers on Solar Cooking/drying/water pasteurization, Photo-Voltaics, Fuel wood reduction, Social impacts and Dissemination methods of appropriate technologies. He speaks at international conferences (World Conferences on Solar Cooking in Costa Rica, Peru and Italy). He has been interviewed in depth on Radio Green (Canada), Nepal TV, Radio Mongolia, PAX-TV (US) and US newspapers. He wrote articles in Home Power Magazine and SCI's newsletters. Allart conducts research on different solar devices. He regularly lectures, conducts workshops and teaches principles of solar technologies and dissemination of these technologies for various organizations of the US, The Netherlands, Nepal, Mongolia, South America, India, Madagascar. He treks and climbs in remote regions, demonstrating solar cooking to the local population with his backpack solar trekker's cooker and his collapsible parabolic cooker. Allart is an active Rotarian involved in Rotary World Community Services programs. Since becoming a Rotarian in 2002, he initiated 6 Rotary Matching Grant projects in Nepal, on solar cooking, solar water pasteurization, improved fuel wood ('Rocket') stoves, and other sustainable technologies. These projects are helping 1500 families or 10,000 people. In 2003, he received the Environmental Award from the Hewlett-Packard-Agilent Technologies Retiree Volunteer organization for his volunteer work in developing countries and US. Allart (Al) Ligtenberg, Tel/Fax (650)948-8294 aligtenber@... www.fast-solar.com www.bali-i.com/fast-solar User:Allart Ligtenberg 06 June 2004 | |
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