Anant Sudarshan is the South Asia Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). Before coming to UChicago he was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, as well as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and holds undergraduate and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) and Stanford University respectively. His research spans several aspects of energy and environment policy including the design of environmental regulation, pollution markets, climate change, the food-energy-water nexus, electricity access, and renewable energy policy.