STUDENT FELLOWS

Aseem Mahajan is a PhD student in Government at Harvard University. His research explores how governments develop public policy and adopt technology to manage the effects of climate change. In particular, he focuses on the tradeoffs between cost, riskiness, speed, and durability as they pertain to decision-making around climate adaptation and solar geoengineering technologies, which mask some effects of climate change while failing to decrease or limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause the underlying problem.

He also studies how individuals form public opinion toward these technologies, their perceptions about distributional equity around climate change bargaining, and the origins of preference formation among the US public. Aseem graduated with honors from Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics and certificates in Political Economy and Finance. Prior to that, he was a policy analyst at IFF, a community development financial institution (CDFI) in Chicago and a Senior Associate at PwC’s Global Transfer Pricing Division in New York. As an ISEP fellow, Aseem is currently conducting survey research in rural India to better understand variation in the supply and quality of electricity available to households and businesses.