Sachin Desai is the VP of Global Affairs at Pacific Fusion and has built a career deploying energy projects across the globe. At Pacific Fusion, he helps lead US and international regulatory policy and government engagement. He is also Chair of the Board of the Fusion Industry Association.

Before joining Pacific Fusion, Sachin was General Counsel at Helion Energy and an attorney at the law firm of Hogan Lovells. He helped lead the licensing of a variety of new energy sources, with a focus on advanced nuclear reactors and fusion energy.

He started his legal career at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School where he also served as Editor in Chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Before law school Sachin was a strategy consultant, and holds master’s and bachelor's degrees in engineering from Cornell University.