Paasha Mahdavi is Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Director of the M.S. in Data Science for Public Policy program.
As a Fellow at the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Paasha studies the politics of nationalization and state-owned enterprises in the energy sector (the subject of his current book project); the consequences of oil-to-cash transfers; and the political economy of fossil fuel subsidy reform. His work has been published in journals such as Energy Policy, Nature Energy, and World Politics. Paasha is an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown and currently serves as the GFC Fellow for the Council on the Future of Energy at the World Economic Forum. In a past life, Paasha worked as an energy consultant for ICF International. He earned his M.A. in international policy from Stanford, and M.S. in statistics and Ph.D. in political science from UCLA.