Amir S. Mikhail, Ph.D., Senior Vice President - Engineering

Amir Mikhail is currently Senior Vice President of Engineering for Clipper Windpower, responsible for the design of Clipper's new Liberty® 2.5 MW wind turbine. Dr. Mikhail began his career in wind energy in 1978 as a research scientist at the School of Geophysical Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he participated in wind power research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. From 1980 to 1985, Dr. Mikhail was a researcher and program manager in the areas of wind technology and wind resource assessment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Dr. Mikhail served as Vice President of Engineering for Zond and Enron Wind Corp. from 1989-2000. In those capacities he led the engineering design of the Z-class 550 kW to 1.5 MW wind turbines, raising over $30 million in research and development funding assistance from the DOE. He integrated evolutionary lessons learned into the further development of the EW 1.5 MW machine, and more recently into the design of Clipper's Liberty 2.5 MW unit.

Dr. Mikhail has more than thirty publications in the wind power field and thirteen awarded patents. Dr. Mikhail received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Cairo and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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