Gireesh Shrimali is a Precourt Scholar at the Sustainable Finance Initiative at Stanford University. He is also a visiting scholar at the Center for Climate Finance and Investment (CCFI) at Imperial College and serves as an advisor to the Center for Energy and Environment and Water (CEEW). Previously, he was the Director of Climate Policy Initiative’s India Program, and a Research Fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University. He has taught at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS), Monterrey as well as the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
His current research focus is on renewable energy finance and policy, on the catalytic role of finance in getting to the 2C climate target, and on pathways for provision of low-cost, long-term capital for clean energy transition. He is also focusing on climate financial risk – physical and transition – measurement and management as well as strategies for net zero transitions. His work has also included topics such as analysis of India’s renewable policies; the impact of federal and state policy on the development and deployment of renewable energy in the U.S.; and business models for off-grid energy in developing countries.
He holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Prior to his academic/research career, he has over nine years of industry experience designing high-speed networking and computing systems.