Swati Dsouza

Swati Dsouza is the India lead analyst and coordinator for the International Energy Agency (IEA). She is also associated with UC Davis where she works as a consultant with the Institute of Transport Studies on decarbonising the transport sector in India. Swati has over 8 years of energy sector experience focused on challenges to the fossil fuel transition in emerging economies. Previously, Swati developed and led the climate programme at National Foundation for India (NFI) that examined the extent of labour dependency across the coal value chain at the national and subnational level. Prior to NFI, Swati led the research on oil and gas at Brookings India (now CSEP), where she managed and co-edited the book “The Next Stop: Natural gas and India’s journey to a clean energy future” which put together a roadmap to increase gas consumption in India. Swati was associated with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) where she led the research on fossil fuels and transitions in India’s electricity sector to renewable energy. She did her graduate degree at School of Oriental and African Studies, where she specialised in climate policy.