Dr. Varun Jyothiprakash is a senior program manager at WRI India. He has done his PhD in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He has been working in the field of developmental strategies, energy system modelling, power sector modelling, renewable energy studies and sustainability studies for the past 12 years.

Varun has published his work in various scientific journals and presented his research at national and international conferences. Various awards and fellowships have acknowledged his research work, including the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan.

His core competency is in exploring the inter-linkages between energy technologies, low carbon growth, energy modelling and climate mitigation policies, and he has a commendable skillset in CPLEX GAMS Programming, R Programming and Python.