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Akanksha Tyagi

Akanksha Tyagi

Senior Programme Lead

Dr Akanksha Tyagi is a Senior Programme Lead at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), where she co-leads the Technology Futures team. She guides high-impact research on clean energy manufacturing, resilient global supply chains, and the integration of circular economy principles into the energy transition. She brings over 9 years of experience in research conceptualisation and execution, building partnerships, and government engagement. Over the last seven years at CEEW, she has worked on diverse topics such as rooftop solar integration, grid-connected battery energy storage systems (BESS), clean energy jobs and skills, clean energy manufacturing, and critical minerals, while building new research programmes on circularity in clean energy sectors and responsible renewables.

Dr Tyagi brings deep scientific rigor to her policy leadership. Before joining CEEW, she advanced the frontiers of green chemistry as a postdoctoral  researcher at ESICB, Kyoto University, developing novel photocatalytic routes for organic synthesis. She holds a Human and Environmental Studies doctorate from Kyoto University, Japan. She is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (Hyderabad) and Hindu College, University of Delhi, where she completed her postgraduate and undergraduate studies in Chemistry, respectively.

  • 2Times she has climbed Mount Fuji
  • 2Types of desserts she eats daily
  • 3Km walked daily
  • What I believe in

     

    If you don’t set your own agenda, someone else will.

     

    What Others say

     

    Akanksha is the best prototype for a non-reactive catalyst (simplicity) with the enormous activation energy (high positivity) to improve the yield and purity (quality of research) of reaction products (research deliverables).

     

    Ankur Malyan

    Research Analyst