Ramit Debnath and Kamiar Mohaddes have been appointed Assistant Directors of the Energy Policy Research Group
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars have been appointed Assistant Directors of a prestigious energy think tank on sustainable energy solutions.
Ramit Debnath and Kamiar Mohaddes are two of the three new Assistant Directors to be appointed to the Energy Policy Research Group at Cambridge’s Judge Business School. The Group is one of the world’s leading research centres on energy and environmental economics policy. Its mission is to inform good energy policy through research at the highest international levels of excellence.
It is not the first time they will work together. Both co-founded the climaTRACES Lab, an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Cambridge focusing on climate, nature and sustainability research.
Ramit [2018] works at the intersection of AI, climate and social systems. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) and leads the Cambridge Collective Intelligence and Design Group as well as the climaTRACES Lab, His research focuses on responsible, human-centred AI systems for climate action and environmental sustainability at scale.
Kamiar [2005] is an expert in the macroeconomics of climate change and sustainability. He is Director of the Global Executive MBA programme in addition to the climaTRACES Lab. His research spans energy economics, innovation and entrepreneurship and the economics of the Middle East, and has been widely cited by policymakers. In 2025 he received the Financial Times Award for Academic Research with Impact.
Kamiar and Ramit first met through the Energy Policy Research Group [EPRG] in 2018, Ramit’s first year at Cambridge. They met again soon after at a Gates Cambridge event in the University Centre and realised they were both Scholars.
Professor David Reiner, Co-Director of the EPRG, welcomed the new Assistant Directors, saying: “As part of renewing the leadership of EPRG, we thought it was important to reach out to colleagues from across the University and introduce a new group of assistant directors whose talents and expertise would allow EPRG to continue to grow and flourish. With backgrounds in AI, clean fuels and macroeconomics, they will allow us to continue to tackle some of the most important energy policy challenges going forward.”
