Amar Bhardwaj

Amar Bhardwaj is a current Marshall Scholar focused on policy and economic analysis as well as technology development within renewable energy and hard-to-abate sectors. He has worked as a researcher at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and an Energy Industry Analyst at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), where he helped inform policymaking on the energy transition. Previously, Amar was a lead researcher in Columbia's Solar Fuels Engineering Lab, the Editor in Chief of Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, and an expert reviewer for the IPCC's 6^th Assessment Report. Amar has authored numerous publications in energy policy and technology and presented his work globally, including at the United Nations. He holds a BS in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, from Columbia University, an MPA from University College London, and will soon begin a PhD in chemical engineering at Stanford University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.