Mr Girish Sethi is engaged with the Energy Programme of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as Senior Director. An expert in the domain of energy efficiency with over 37 years of experience he actively works towards providing strategic direction to TERI’s efforts in research aimed at industrial energy efficiency, renewable energy, fuels and electricity, including demand side management.
In addition, Mr Sethi is heading TERI’s work that looks at options for the deep de-carbonization in harder-to-abate industrial sectors in the longer term, including options for use of hydrogen. Furthermore, he is also invested in areas of GHG inventorization of corporate level GHG emissions and aspects related to technology transfer and promotion of low carbon energy technologies in the context of climate change.
A Chemical Engineer by training with a Masters in Energy Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, Mr Sethi also holds a multi-disciplinary Masters on “Technology in the Tropics” from University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany.
Email: girishs@teri.res.in