Divyam Nagpal

Divyam is a renewable energy specialist with over 14 years of professional experience at the intergovernmental and national-level. He is presently working as Principal Specialist - Renewable Energy in the UN Energy Team of Sustainable Energy for All. He leads the work under the SEforALL Green Industrialization Hub covering key initiatives, including the Africa Renewable Energy Manufacturing Initiative, Council for Critical Minerals Development in the Global South and Southeast Asia Green Value Chains programme. Prior to this, he has worked with the International Renewable Energy Agency, the MIT Energy Initiative and the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and REN21. 

Divyam has extensive experience with renewable energy policy assessment, off-grid renewables for energy access, socio-economic impacts of the energy transition, the water, energy and food nexus, and regional market analyses. He has co-authored over 15 major publications and has a strong understanding of global and regional renewable energy technology and market trends. 

Divyam has also worked in the United Kingdom and India focusing on techno-economic and financial assessments of large-scale and off-grid renewable energy projects, as well as on sector-level energy efficiency benchmarking. He is a mechanical engineer by training and has an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London.