Sugandha Srivastav's work lies at the nexus of the economics of innovation and environmental economics. Her research explores how to bring early-stage technologies to market and the role of R&D support, advanced market commitments and other de-risking instruments. Key research themes include how to decarbonise highly regulated power markets and the design of climate/energy policy in developing countries.
Sugandha is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford, a Distinguished CESifo Affiliate, an Early Career Research Fellow the Skoll Centre at Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking at Oxford.
Sugandha holds a DPhil in Environmental Economics from Oxford and an MSc. in Economics from LSE. She lectures for the MSc. in Sustainability, Enterprise and Environment at the Smith School. Prior to the DPhil, Sugandha worked for several years as an environmental economist at Vivid Economics and ICRIER.