Dr. Ajay Mathur is a Professor of Practice in the School of Public Policy at IIT, Delhi. He was previously the Director General of: the International Solar Alliance (ISA) (2021-2025), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (2016-2021), and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) (2006-2012 and 2013-2016). He served as the interim Director of the Green Climate Fund during its foundational period (2012-2013). He was, for many years, till he was elected as DG of ISA, a member of the Prime Minister of India’s Council on Climate Change, and co-chair of the global Energy Transitions Commission and the Clean Cooling Initiatives of the One Planet Summit. He was a leading Indian and G-77 climate change negotiator (2007-2011) and was the Indian spokesperson at the Paris climate negotiations (2015).
Dr. Mathur was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Merite by the President of France in recognition of his outstanding commitment to preserving the environment and coping with energy-related challenges.
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is a member of the Board of E-Cubed, and a member of the Advisory Boards of Lightrock Energy Acceleration Fund, PowerRoll, and Cenergist. He also chairs the Indian Task Force to Prepare a Roadmap for Energy Sector Education.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.Eng. from the University of Roorkee.
Dr. Mathur works in the areas of clean energy transition and of global climate change. In particular, he focusses on policy issues that enable climate finance; public regulations that foster private sector investment in clean technology; and public policy that stimulates technological innovation in the clean-energy sector. He is on the Board of Ecube Investment Advisors Private Limited.
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