Puneet is Head - Utilities & Finance in Energy vertical of WRI India. He is advising on creating policy & regulatory ecosystem and supporting frameworks & measures to increase adoption of renewable energy. He is actively working with states of Rajasthan and Assam on regulatory support in RE transition, energy modelling studies, data tools and energy storage systems. He is further engaged in commercial & industrial net zero transition efforts.

Puneet is an energy sector expert with more than 17 years of experience in rendering advisory services covering Energy spectrum including Electricity – Renewables & Conventional, Coal, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Infrastructure and mining, to clients including Central Ministries and State Departments, Central & State-owned utilities, Commissions, multi-lateral donor agencies and private sector entities in India and abroad. He has played key role in Large-scale Central & State sponsored scheme management and Inter-government and inter-ministerial project co-ordination

He has led critical engagements such as restructuring of large scale PSUs, State power sector reforms and financial restructuring plans and roll-out, Bid/ Transaction/ PPP advisory support for generation, transmission and distribution assets, power procurement solar power project development, coal and mineral ore mines, DPRs and feasibility studies for petrochemical parks and power assets, advanced modelling assignments for tariff structures, loss reduction and revenue generation plans, process audits, etc. He has good experience in investment promotion and international corridor and business development.

He is Masters in Business Administration specializing in Finance and Bachelors in Commerce Honors specializing in Business Studies. He holds certification of CFA Level 1 from CFA Institute, USA and Business Professional Programming (‘O’ Level).