Shruti M. Deorah

Shruti M. Deorah is the Executive Director of the India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. As the founding Executive Director of IECC, Shruti is jointly responsible for the overall strategy, building out a team, fundraising, coordinating research objectives, as well as expanding the outreach and engagement with policymakers. She leads research on policy pathways for building resilience to extreme heat, including policy implications of the scientific research by the IECC team on heat science, urban heat planning, heat infrastructure, climate projections, etc. The work is focused on protecting the health and livelihoods of vulnerable communities in a warming India. Her prior research at Berkeley was focused on regulatory & policy issues in India’s clean energy transition, specifically accelerating deployment of renewable energy in the power sector. Previously, she worked at the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), India’s apex power sector regulator, and in the non-profit sector with Observer Research Foundation and the Clinton Climate Initiative. In a prior avatar, she did business development and client management for digital marketing companies in India and the US. Shruti holds a B.Tech, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and spent a year at the Goldman School as a visiting scholar. Shruti lives in Berkeley with her husband and two kids, one going to BPC and a BPC alum.