Dr. Nandakumar Janardhanan is a Research Manager of Climate and Energy Division and the Regional Coordinator for South Asia operations at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. He specialises in energy and climate policy and has research interests in energy security and geopolitics, renewable energy, low-carbon development and nuclear power. He has also been associated with several policy think tanks, research organisations and universities of international repute.
Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi is a Research Fellow at the Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW) and leads the Council’s ’Low Carbon Pathways’ research. Prior to joining the Council, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Joint Global Change Research Institute/ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. His research focuses on Indian and global energy and climate change mitigation policy issues within the integrated assessment modelling framework ofthe Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM).