Divyam is a renewable energy specialist with over 7 years of professional experience at the intergovernmental and national level. He is currently working as an independent consultant with the MIT Energy Initiative, International Renewable Energy Agency(IRENA), and Factor. Until recently, Divyam was an Associate Programme Officer with the IRENA's Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre in Abu Dhabi (UAE). Within the Policy Unit, he worked on a wide range of programmatic activities, including renewable energy policy assessment, off-grid renewables for energy access, socio-economic impacts of the energy transition, the water, energy and food nexus, and regional market analyses. He has co-authored over 15 major publications for IRENA. Prior to joining IRENA, Divyam worked in the United Kingdom and India focusing on techno-economic and financial assessments of large-scale and off-grid renewable energy projects, as well as on sector-level energy efficiency benchmarking.
He is a mechanical engineer by training and has an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London. He is also pursuing his Doctorate in Public Administration from the University College London researching policies to support local innovation systems for off-grid renewable energy solutions.