Phil is an Energy Economist in the World Bank’s energy practice in South Asia, working on accelerating the low-carbon energy transition, regional power sector integration, and climate finance strategy. He was also involved with the US$75 billion replenishment process for the World Bank’s low-income countries fund (IDA), focusing on climate and energy commitments.
Phil has a PhD from the program in Science, Technology & Environmental Policy at Princeton University. Phil’s research examines the politics of China’s international support for coal power, particularly strategic responses of other donors and implications for climate change governance. Phil was a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds in 2016, and a research scholar at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India in 2015. From 2009-2011, Phil studied south-south cooperation as a Chinese Government Scholar at the U.N. Environment Program-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development in Shanghai. His work is published in Science, Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change, and India in Transition.
As ISEP, Phil seeks to study the political economy of low-carbon energy transitions, particularly the transition away from coal power and the role of energy storage.