Ilya Chernyakhovskiy is the lead author for USAID’s Grid Integration Toolkit under the USAID-NREL partnership. He leads grid integration analysis and capacity building efforts in Central Asia countries, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Ilya is also part of the core modeling team for NREL’s grid integration studies in South Asia. Prior to joining NREL, Ilya was a researcher in economic development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He holds a M.Sc. in Resource Economics and Econometrics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.