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A climate change mitigation professional with over 14 years of total experience including 8 years of experience in Energy & Climate Change Policy Advisory & Consulting. He currently is with Country Office of UNEP in New Delhi.

 

Bio Description –

A climate change mitigation professional with over 14 years of total experience including 8 years of experience in Energy & Climate Change Policy Advisory & Consulting. He currently is with Country Office of UNEP in New Delhi.

He was associate Director at The Energy Research Institute ( TERI) in New Delhi. His responsibilities in TERI included providing policy advisory on climate finance & carbon markets, GHG inventories and transparency mechanisms, energy & industry transitions and UNFCCC & Montreal Protocol issues. He led a team of 22 passionate researchers and manages a portfolio of over 20 climate mitigation projects. .He was a part of the committee of directors at TERI to provide strategic guidance for the future research areas for the organisation.

He was involved with preparing the NDCs for India and was a member of the Indian delegation to the UNFCCC Paris COP 21. As a manager of the UNDP-GEF project on EE improvements in Commercial Buildings with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Govt. of India, he have designed fiscal incentives for energy efficiency buildings and developed a regulatory framework for working towards a mandatory ECBC (India’s Energy Conservation Building Code) regime across various states in India. During his 8+ years in the climate mitigation space, he has worked with international, national and sub-national governments. He has a deep understanding of the climate policy framework in India and shares a vast network with the regulatory, academia and industrial stakeholders. During his years of experience he has worked as an analyst, a researcher, a climate mitigation expert and now a manager.