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

Faculty Director,
India Energy & Climate Center
Associate Adjunct Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), UC Berkeley

Nikit Abhyankar

Co-Faculty Director,
India Energy & Climate Center
Associate Adjunct Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), UC Berkeley

Shruti M. Deorah

Executive Director,
India Energy & Climate Center
UC Berkeley

Ashok Gadgil

Senior Advisor, Head of Research for Climate Resilience
India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Neelima Jain

Director, Industrial & Trade Policy, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Mohit Bhargava

Country Director,
India Energy & Climate Center,
UC Berkeley

Umed Paliwal

Director, Modeling & Analytics,
India Energy & Climate Center,
UC Berkeley

Paritosh Jaiswal

Associate Director, Power,
India Energy & Climate Center,
UC Berkeley

Dipesh Pherwani

Associate Director – Industry
India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

José Domínguez Bennett

Research Manager,
India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Fernando Augusto

Communications Manager, India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Ayuko Picot

Senior Program Manager,
India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Piyush Narang

Senior Research Associate,
India Energy & Climate Center,
UC Berkeley

Elif Kılıç

Research Associate,
India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Rashmi Sapra

Senior Executive Assistant
& Operations Lead,
India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley

Affiliates

Deepak Rajagopal

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

Sudha Shetty

Former Assistant Dean, International Alliances & Partnerships, GSPP

Jeanne Sorin

Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Jiang Lin

Nat Simons Presidential Director in Global Energy Studies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory