shrutiduttsharma

Short Bio:
Shruti Sharma is a senior policy advisor based in India for the IISD’s Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI). Shruti’s role includes managing research projects focused on energy subsidy reform in India. Her research focuses on understanding household energy transitions involving electricity, LPG and renewable energy. These projects focus on analysing fuel subsidy policies to provide recommendations to national and state governments of Haryana, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. Her recent work has examined how well electricity subsidies are targeted to poor households and farmers in states like Jharkhand and Haryana; gender-disaggregated impacts of subsidy reform, LPG subsidy policies and renewable energy swaps.