Anant Sudarshan

Contact Information Research Interests Education 2 Balbir Saxena Marg LGF, AADI Complex, New Delhi 110016 +91-9811062236 anant.sudarshan@ifmr.ac.in

Energy and environment economics, Applied econometrics, Behavioural economics, Population dynamics, Rural and Renewable energy technologies, Energy eciency. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Ph.D, Management Science and Engineering, March 2011 Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, 2006 Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi,India Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 2004

Selected Experience

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Senior Research Manager Harvard Kennedy School Sustainability Science Fellow Precourt Energy Eciency Center Graduate Research Assistant EnerNOC Research Intern Sequoia Capital Consultant The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Research Associate

IFMR April 2011 - Present Harvard University April 2011 - Present Stanford University June 2007 - March 2011 San Francisco, CA Jun 2010 - Sep 2010 Mumbai, Stanford Sep 2009 - Mar 2010 New Delhi, India May 2006 - April 2007

Selected Ongoing Research

Environment and Markets Designing and evaluating a pilot emissions trading scheme to regulate industry emission of particulates in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra (with Michael Greenstone, Nick Ryan and Rohini Pande). Information, Incentives and Behavior Novel economic and behavioral incentives to mitigate the growth in urban Indian residential electricity demand Information disclosure to strengthen regulators and improve industry compliance with environmental regulation (with Michael Greenstone, Nick Ryan and Rohini Pande) Monetary and non-monetary incentives to encourage the use of public transportation (with Santosh Kesavan, Rohini Pande) The Costs of Environmental Change

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Air Pollution and Health: Using satellite data to uncover the distribution of health damages from particulate air pollution in India (with Sagnik Dey) Climate change and temperature impacts on industrial productivity Selected Papers Deconstructing the Rosenfeld Curve: Why is Californias Residential Electricity Consumption So Low? 2013. To appear. Energy Economics. Real-time Feedback and Electricity Consumption: A Field Experiment Assessing the Potential for Savings and Persistence. The Energy Journal, 2013, Vol 34(1) (with Sebastien Houde, Annika Todd, June A. Flora and Carrie K. Armel) Psychohistory Revisited: Fundamental issues in forecasting climate futures. Climatic Change. Vol 104(3-4). pp 457-472. 2011 (With Cullenward, D., Schipper, L., and Howarth, R). Transport and carbon emissions in the United States: The long view. Energies (Special Issue on Energy-Friendly Transportation).Vol 4(4). pp 563-581. 2011. (With Schipper, L. and Saenger, C.). Contextualizing Indias Energy Security. In Noronha, Ligia and Anant Sudarshan (eds). Indias Energy Security. Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series. pp. 3-18. New York: Routledge. 2009 (With Ligia Noronha) How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China?Demographic Research. Vol 19. pp. 1831-1850. 2008. (With Bhattacharjya, D., Tuljapurkar, S., Shachter, R. and Marcus Feldman). Weather data mining using independent component analysis. 2004. Journal of Machine Learning Research. Vol 5. pp. 239-253. 2004. (With Basak, J., Trivedi, D. and M. S. Santhanam).

Edited Books and Chapters

Noronha, Ligia and Anant Sudarshan (eds). 2009. Indias Energy Security. Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series. New York: Routledge Coal Supply: The Fallacy of Abundance. 2008. In The Coal Dilemma. New Delhi: TERI Press. S.K.Chand (editor)

Selected Conferences

Money for Nothing: Using peer comparisons and nancial incentives to reduce electricity demand in urban Indian households. November 3-4, 2012. North-East Universities Develoment Consortium Conference. Deconstructing the Rosenfeld Curve: A model of household energy demand. 34th IAEE International Conference. June 19-23, 2011 at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Best Student Paper Award A randomized control trial to evaluate the value of information. Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference. November 14 - 17, 2010. Sacramento, CA. Rejuvenating the RECS: How do we provide better empirical support to policy?. Invited presentation to the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council. July 19, 2010. Washington D.C. Schipper, Lee and Sudarshan, Anant. 2010. Transport and Carbon Emissions in the United States: The Long View. Poster Presentation at the 89th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board. Washington D.C.

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Grants

Increasing the Transparency of Environmental Regulation (J-PAL Governance Initiative) Designing a Particulate Emissions Trading Scheme for India (Ministry of Environment and Forests, GoI) Using peer comparisons and nancial incentives to reduce urban electricity consumption (Sustainability Science Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School)

Awards

Best Student Paper Award, International Association of Energy Economics, 2011 Deans Fellowship to Stanford School of Engineering Institute Silver Medal for All-Round Excellence, IIT-Delhi, 2004 Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Delhi Roll of Honor (Karakoram House, IIT Delhi), 2004 Shashank Vikram Garg Award for best all-round student, IIT Delhi, 2003 National Talent Search Examination Scholarship (Govt. of India), 1998-2004 Occasional columnist for the leading Indian daily, The Indian Express Columnist for Ideas For India policy blog

Popular Writing

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