Uttara Narayan
India
Public Policy (MPP), 2013
Kellogg College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus - Chevening
Uttara is currently a researcher at the Institute of Climate Change, Oxford with a focus on the relationship between racial justice and energy demand in the UK. Previously Uttara was a manager for Energy Governance at the World Resources Institute working on challenges at the intersection of environment, social justice and development making instruments of decision-making such as data and policies more inclusive. Her interests lie in expanding the interpretation of a just energy transition to include broader consequences of exclusion and socio-economic costs and ways to address them to achieve a transition to clean energy that is net positive.
Uttara also worked for Athena Infonomics, a development advisory organization in the areas of local governance and environment. Uttara holds a master’s in Development Studies from IIT-Madras and a master’s in Public Policy from the University of Oxford on a Chevening Weidenfeld scholarship.
