Shruti M. Deorah
Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), UC Berkeley;
Affiliate, LBNL
Shruti M. Deorah is the Executive Director of the India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and an Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
As the Founding Executive Director of IECC, Shruti is responsible for the overall strategy, building out a team, fundraising, coordinating research objectives with her colleagues, as well as expanding the outreach and engagement with policymakers. She conducts research on regulatory & policy issues in decarbonizing India’s energy sectors, specifically accelerating deployment of renewable energy plants on India’s grid. She also designs and coordinates the curriculum for executive education programs on Energy & Environment for government officials at the Public Policy School.
Previously, she worked at the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), India’s apex power sector regulator, and in the non-profit sector with Observer Research Foundation and the Clinton Climate Initiative. At CERC, her areas of work included tariff setting for RE plants, Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market & mechanism, technical frameworks for grid integration & balancing of infirm RE power on the grid, and working with State Regulators on all RE related issues.
In a prior avatar, she did business development and client management for digital marketing companies in India and the US. Shruti holds a B.Tech, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and spent a year at the Goldman School as a visiting scholar.