Phillip Hannam

Phil Hannam is a senior energy economist in the World Bank Group’s “Knowledge Bank”, where he focuses on affordable and secure energy amidst transition. He was the lead author of the Bank’s reports “Scaling Up to Phase Down” on financing the energy transition, and “To Phase Down” on creating the sector conditions for a just transition while reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants. He is involved in pilots of energy transition crediting in Dominican Republic, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. He has led operational and technical engagements in India and Bangladesh on energy storage and network modernization. A mechanical engineer by training, Phil has a PhD from Princeton University’s “Science, Technology and Environmental Policy” program, and previously worked at the UN Environment Program in Nairobi, Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories.