Ishani Mukherjee

Dr Ishani Mukherjee joined SMU in 2018. Her expertise include policy formulation and design; environmental and natural resource policy and management; policy tools for renewable energy and energy efficiency, particularly in Asia. She received her PhD in Public Policy from NUS, with a concentration on Environmental Policy and was the recipient of the World Future Foundation PhD Prize for Environmental and Sustainability Research in 2014.

She has worked previously at the World Bank’s Energy practice in Washington, DC, on formulating guidelines and evaluating projects related to renewable energy, rural electrification, and energy efficiency. She got her MSc and BSc degrees in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics from Cornell University. Her research has been published in leading disciplinary journals of public policy such as Policy & Society, Policy Sciences and Administration & Society, as well as top-ranked journals of environmental policy such as Renewable Energy, Energy Policy and Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (RSER). She has also jointly authored and edited books on policy formulation and design, most recently published by the Cambridge University Press.

Qualifications

• PhD, National University of Singapore, 2013
• MSc, Cornell University, 2006
• BSc, Cornell University, 2004

Research Interests

• Policy Formulation and Policy Design
• Policy Instruments
• Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
• Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Course(s) Taught in SMU

• Public Sector Management
• Policy Design and Analysis
• Introduction to Public Policy