Experts & Staff

Bharath Jairaj is a Senior Associate at WRI and works specifically on the Electricity Governance Initiative (EGI). He was previously associated with environmental and consumer advocacy groups in India including with WWF-India, Toxics Link and Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG). He was Director of CAG till 2008, and worked on issues ranging from access to information and improving urban governance to consumer protection and public interest advocacy campaigns for enforcement of environmental laws. He was part of the India team that implemented the EGI toolkit in India in 2004-06.

At WRI, Bharath works with EGI’s south Asian and south East Asian country partners to improve governance processes and regulatory substance in the electricity sector.

He has a law degree from the National Law School of India University, a Masters in Law from the National University of Singapore and a Masters in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.