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Dr. Ajay Mathur

Director General, ISA

Expertise and Skills

Dr. Mathur has experience across all stages of the technology cycle, and across various crosscutting aspects of technology commercialization. He has contributed to:

  • Policy: Standards & Labeling for energy-efficient appliances; Perform, Achieve & Trade programme for energy-intensive industries; Energy Conservation Building Code for commercial buildings; Market Transformation to LED lighting
  • Financing: Integration of clean-energy technologies in World Bank financing; utilization and mainstreaming of GEF and Montreal Protocol funds; business model framework of the Green Climate Fund; Aggregation and bulk procurement of LED lights for market transformation; Creation of a Partial Risk Guarantee Fund and a Venture Capital Fund to stimulate investment in energy efficiency
  • Institutional Development: Development of Energy Engineering Division at TERI; Vision, Approach and Operations of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency; Business Model Framework and Institutional Policies of the Green Climate Fund; Setting up and operationalization of a CDM business in Suzlon Energy Ltd.
  • International Negotiations: Lead Indian (and G-77) negotiator on issues related to the development & transfer of technology in the climate change negotiations, 2007-2011, leading to the successful creation of the Technology Mechanism and the Clean Technology Centre & Network
  • Research: Design, characterization and development of fluidized bed boilers, and of fuel cells
  • Prototyping & Commercialization: Double-blast cupolas for foundries and gas-fired furnaces and recuperators for glass industry
  • Assessment: Wind turbine performance; effectiveness of technologies to phase out ozone-depleting substances
  • Production & Marketing: Wind energy turbines