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Biography
Rohit Chandra is a political scientist and economic historian working on energy, infrastructure and varieties of capitalism in India. His recent work has covered the coal and power industries, and the broader politics of India’s energy transition. Over the last decade, he has worked in the policy space on coal sector reforms, the politics of state power utilities (discoms), and public finance decisions behind large infrastructure projects. He has strong interests in comparative state capitalism in energy sectors and financing across the Global South.
Rohit completed his PhD from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, focusing on the economic and political history of India’s coal industry. He is currently an Assistant Professor at IIT-Delhi’s School of Public Policy. Here he continues his work on coal and power, but have also expanded into the political economy of infrastructure, infrastructure finance, just transitions, pension reform and more. He is in the beginning stages of a few historical projects on major figures shaping Indian state capitalism and on small private banks and manufacturing lending.