Nanda Kumar Janardhanan is the Deputy Director for Climate and Energy, and the South Asia Regional Coordinator at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. His areas of interest include just transition, climate security, energy policy, technology co-innovation, critical minerals, hydrogen, and air pollution. Nanda has over two decades of experience in policy research, market analysis, and academia. He has taught at several prestigious institutions, including Kyoto University (Japan), the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). He has also worked with leading think tanks in India and Japan, such as the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA, India) and the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA, Japan). He previously served as a Fellow with the Climate CoLab initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and currently holds Adjunct Fellow positions with the Institute of Chinese Studies (India) and the Institute of Australia India Engagement (Australia).