Thomas Hobbs is a junior from Watford, United Kingdom majoring in the School of Public and International Affairs and undertaking minors in Sustainable Energy, Slavic Languages and Cultures, and Russian Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. His focus includes renewable energy, sustainable development, and the global path to net-zero, with a particular focus on the Baltic States and Central Asia. At Princeton, Thomas has served as Director of University Affairs for the Princeton University Energy Association Conference, a member of Princeton’s Model United Nations Team and an analyst focused on energy for both BlackGen Capital and Tiger Consulting Club. Thomas spent this past summer on a PIIRS Global Seminar studying the geopolitical history of Eastern Europe in Romania. He previously interned at the Innovation Agency Lithuania in Vilnius, where he contributed to renewable energy resource collaboration between Finland and Lithuania, an experience which he presented at Yale University’s REEESNe Conference in 2025. In his sophomore spring, he interned at New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition, a non-profit that targets clean transportation in NJ. Thomas is proficient in Lithuanian and Russian, and is learning Romanian.