Contributor : Profile

Vaibhav Chowdhary comes with more than 17 years of experience in the field of energy, climate, and sustainability. He served at various leadership positions across governments, consulting, philanthropies, and think tanks, in India and abroad. He is a visiting Professor of Practice at the department of sustainable energy and engineering (SEE) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. In the past, Vaibhav worked as India Lead for an international philanthropy – Clean Air Fund (CAF), wherein he co-designed and delivered large scale air pollution mitigation programs in partnership with multiple stakeholders. Vaibhav also served as a Director at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) in India, an empirical research center focused on energy and environment issues. Prior to UChicago EPIC, Vaibhav worked as the National Energy Adviser to the Government of UK – at a X-Whitehall team of Department for International Development (DFID), UK-Foreign Office and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) – wherein he managed multiple low carbon growth initiative in India and beyond.

Vaibhav had also worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an instrumentation engineer at Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) in the early days of his professional journey. Vaibhav is a Certified Energy Auditor with a bachelor’s in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering. He holds an MBA (with honors) in Power Management from the National Power Training Institute (NPTI) and is an executive management professional from the Booth School of Business at UChicago, USA. Vaibhav holds multiple post graduate diplomas in areas of energy and sustainability, IPR, Cyber law, Financial Derivatives etc from premier institutes in India and abroad.