Energy for Growth Hub

Anant Sudarshan

South Asia Director, EPIC

University of Chicago


Areas of Expertise

Energy AccessElectricity Distribution

Anant Sudarshan is South Asia Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. Prior to working at EPIC, Anant was the Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and he holds undergraduate and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) and Stanford University respectively. Anant works at the intersection of environmental economics and engineering, with on-going research on a variety of areas including environmental regulation, air-pollution, climate change, energy efficiency, electricity and renewable energy.

Non-Hub Publication Highlights

Nudges in the marketplace: The response of household electricity consumption to information and monetary incentives. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Vol. 133. December 27, 2016.

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