Priya Barua joined WRI’s Climate and Energy program as a Research Fellow for the Open Climate Network. The Open Climate Network aims to track national progress on climate change through comprehensive, consistent, and transparent assessments. Her primary work entails coordinating and developing the assessment tools to track lowcarbon growth and competitiveness for OCN in partnership with independent policy institutes from key countries.
Prior to WRI, Priya has had several years of experience in both the private and public sectors. She worked in the South Asia Sustainable Development unit of the World Bank on renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives in India and Afghanistan. She has also worked at ICF International in support of the US EPA’s implementation of the national energy efficiency program, ENERGY STAR. In addition, she has produced comprehensive solar market development reports on the Asia-Pacific region on behalf of the Solar Advisory Services group of IHS Emerging Energy Research.