Fellow, Adaptation and Resilience

anna@sustainablefutures.org

Anna Agarwal is a Fellow at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative. Her research is on understanding India’s energy demand transitions, and identifying ways to lock-in low-carbon energy consumption patterns for the long-term. Anna's work has focussed on residential electricity demand, particularly the cooling demand which would be a substantial driver of future energy needs and carbon emissions. Anna was previously a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sustainable Energy at IIT Kanpur. Previously, she was a Fellow at CPR’s Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment, and Senior Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC- India). She has also held research appointments at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and the MIT Energy Initiative. Anna holds a PhD and a Masters degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an undergraduate degree from IIT Delhi.