Speaker  
   

Ms Preety M Bhandari
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
New Delhi

 

 

Ms Preety M Bhandari is the Director of Policy Analysis Division at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. Her principal interests are (1) climate change, and (2) oil & gas.

Ms Preety Bhandari has 17 years of work experience in areas related to energy policy, and climate change. She has worked with UNEP's Environment Assessment Programme for the Asia Pacific, reviewing the State of the Environment report at the national, sub-regional and regional levels, as also the environment data information system housed at UNEP-EAP/AP. She also worked with the Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies Project at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in developing global scenarios for CO2 emissions using a dynamic non-linear optimization model, the Global 2100.

She is with TERI since 1987. She has coordinated activities of Center for Global Environmental Research and the Oil and Gas area, at different points in time. Ms Bhandari holds a Masters Degree in Business Economics from Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi. She has also done Energy Planning and Policy Course from University of Pennsylvania, Center for Energy & the Environment, USA sponsored by the USAID.

Ms Bhandari is a Member of the following prominent Committees set up by the Government of India:
1. Expert Core Group on Climate Change, a Committee set up by the Government     of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi, India, 2003.
2. India Program of Research in Human Development 2003-07. A project study
    of University of Maryland, USA and National Council of Applied Economic
    Research, New Delhi, India.