Shaikh Wase Khalid Email & Phone Number

As a sustainable development professional, I have honed research, policy advocacy, market assessments and programme management and implementation skills so far. I have worked in diverse thematic areas of renewable energy, livelihoods, indoor air pollution, clean energy, and WASH (water services, sanitation and hygiene). Through my work in the past five years, I have advocated for inclusive and sustainable livelihoods, inclusive finance, equitable energy access, and support structures for grassroot entrepreneurs and cleantech start-ups. I have also participated as a 'Global Talent' at UNLEASH'2022 to identify solutions for energy poverty under SDG7.As a Programme Associate at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), I focus on energy access and sustainable livelihoods. Under Powering Livelihoods, a CEEW-Villgro initiative, I support commercialising clean energy innovations for livelihoods. I work with enterprises (Cleantech start-ups) to help them scale and generate on-ground evidence at a meaningful scale. I have advocated for a national policy on decentralised renewable energy based on productive use appliances through the evidence generated. I also establish and sustain relationships with programme partners, government officials, financiers, and civil society organisations. In my recent work, under the sustainable livelihoods sector focus, I am developing approaches and methodologies to understand and estimate the green job potential of a particular geography in India.