I am the Assistant Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of British Columbia. I trained in economics at the Delhi of Economics, University of Delhi. Later, I spent several years in Berlin engaging with academics and policy makers at the Hertie School of Governance, and at the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), where I am a visiting researcher. 

I am interested in the economics of the transition of the energy sector and the policies that we need to get there. You can read my recent work in Nature Energy, The Energy Journal and Energy.

My wider research interests include 

• Evidence synthesis  for climate

• Evidence based policy 

• Electricity Markets 

• Energy in Development

I have worked with regulators, governments, and utilities in the design and implementation of electricity policy in South Asia. Some of this work was done with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and more recently the International Energy Agency (IEA).  In Germany, I contributed to the policy debate during the energy crisis in 2022 through reports for the German government on demand side-measures.