Deepak Kushawaha

Hi, I’m Deepak Kushawaha, a PhD scholar at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.

My doctoral research, Financing Dynamics of the Renewable Energy Transition in Developing Economies, looks at how countries in the Global South can mobilize finance for a large-scale shift to clean energy. I work at the intersection of energy economics, climate policy, and development finance, with a focus on empirical and econometric analysis.

My research has been published in journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Finance Research Letters, and the Journal of Cleaner Production.

Here is the link to my CV 

Outside academic work, I write poetry. It’s a way of engaging with the natural world and with questions that don’t always fit neatly into models or datasets. In many ways, it complements my research by reminding me that transitions are not only economic and technological but also deeply human.