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Lin Thu Hein

Co-Founder & Co-Executive DirectorAtutu

Biography

Lin Thu Hein is the Executive Director of Atutu, a nonprofit organization bringing energy access to indigenous and marginalized communities. Lin earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California San Diego, with a special focus on Power Systems and Renewable Energy. Prior to Atutu, Lin worked in the solar microgrid industry, accelerating energy and internet access for communities around the world. Relying on his lived experience of growing up in an off-grid community and his technical experience from the energy sector, Lin founded and fostered Atutu to promote community-led development through an anti-colonialist and justice-oriented lens.
Lin received the 2021 Echoing Green Fellowship for dismantling energy inequities in marginalized communities of Myanmar.