Our Team
The India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) team has a strong track record of successful scientific & policy work globally and in India, and comes from a diverse set of backgrounds, fields, and affiliations:
Amol Phadke
Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Nikit Abhyankar
Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shruti M. Deorah
Executive Director, India Energy & Climate Center, Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), UC Berkeley; Affiliate, LBNL
Ashok Gadgil
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley;
Senior Faculty Scientist, LBNL
Neelima Jain
Director of State Initiatives, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley; Adjunct Fellow (Non-Resident) at Center for Strategic and International Studies
Mohit Bhargava
Senior Advisor, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley
Fernando Augusto
Communications Manager, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley
Piyush Narang
Policy Analyst,
India Energy & Climate Center,
UC Berkeley
India Energy & Climate Center,
UC Berkeley
Umed Paliwal
Principal Scientific Engineering Associate, LBNL
Ayuko Picto
Program Manager, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley
Emilia Chojkiewicz
Affiliate, LBNL
Jose Dominguez Bennett
Affiliate, LBNL
Affiliates
Nihar Shah
Presidential Director: Global Cooling Efficiency Program & Scientist, LBNL
Deepak Rajagopal
Associate Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
David Wooley
Executive Director, Center for Environmental Public Policy, GSPP
Jennifer Bussell
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Joshua Apte
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Meredith Fowlie
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics; Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley
Elif Kılıç
Linguist and Environmental Engineer, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
