Kapil is a serving naval officer and is an electrical engineer, development economist, and an energy and sustainability professional with 15 years of experience in the maritime domain. He has worked onboard ships, as a faculty at academic institutes, and as a researcher.
Kapil’s career goal is to “to provide a leadership role to the world, onto a path of sustainable development”. Kapil has a PhD in Development Studies (with a focus on energy economics and energy policy). His PhD studies were interdisciplinary in nature and integrated the subjects of engineering, economics, social sciences, earth sciences and statistics in a system of systems approach. He also has an advanced university degree in Electrical Engineering and a fist level degree in Engineering and Science.
Energy security and sustainability, climate change, its linkages with maritime emissions and ocean governance are some of the areas on which he is currently working as a Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation.
Kapil has participated in various international programs organized by reputed institutes such as IIASA, Vienna (2011); UKERC, Coventry (2013); Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico (2015), IEA, Paris (2016), IASS, Potsdam (2016) and as a Commonwealth Professional Fellow at UCL, London (2016).
Kapil is the co-editor of four books and his latest book titled Asia and the Arctic was published by Springer. Kapil’s papers have appeared in Energy, Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy (Elsevier), Strategic Analysis (Routledge), Oxford Energy Forum, and in other international and online forums.
Joined 2017
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New Delhi, Delhi, India