Narasimha Rao
Narasimha D. Rao obtained his PhD from Stanford University, California, in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in environment and resources in August 2011. His dissertation examined the distributional impacts of energy pricing policies in India and their implications for designing equitable international agreements for climate change mitigation. Dr. Rao has previous master's degrees in electrical engineering and technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His professional experience includes four years as a Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management's Center for Public Policy in Bangalore, India, and seven years of consulting in the electricity industry in the US.
At IIASA, Dr. Rao is researching the relationship between electricity access, income distribution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in India. His methods include economic simulation models of household energy demand and welfare, econometric analysis and input-output analysis. His work emphasizes policy implementation and governance influences. His projects include estimating the livelihood losses from unreliable electricity access in India, enhancing MESSAGE-Access to assess the affordability of energy access with carbon pricing, and developing and applying a novel bottom-up approach to estimating the minimal energy and emissions required to provide humanity with decent living standards.
Dr. Rao’s earlier publications can be found at www.ndrao.com. His IIASA publications are shown in the Publications tab.
Last update: 05-SEP-2012
Curriculum Vitae
Expertise
- Energy and sustainable development
- Energy economics and policy analysis
- Climate ethics and policy