Mateus Pires

Mateus Zanini Pires is a Master of International Affairs candidate at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, concentrating in International Economics and Energy Policy. He works at the intersection of capital markets and development policy, with a focus on energy and infrastructure finance in Latin America. Mateus recently worked as a Consultant […]
Priyanka Pandey

Priyanka Pandey is a Master of Public Policy student at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, focusing on program design and evaluation, energy, and sustainable development policy. Before graduate school, she spent over a decade in India working across corporate communications and CSR in sectors including the legal industry, clean energy, and […]
Di Zhao

Di (Deborah) Zhao is a Master of Public Policy candidate at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, focusing on energy and environmental policy and economics. Her interests lie at the intersection of energy systems, climate risk, and finance, with a particular interest in how infrastructure, institutions, and investment shape resilient energy transitions. […]
Amanda de Souza

Amanda Nogueira Moreira de Souza is a Master of International Affairs candidate at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, specializing in International Environmental Governance. She has experience in international environmental policy and energy governance through research, multilateral engagement, and youth leadership initiatives. Amanda was selected as one of five global participants in […]
Andres Chambouleyron

Andres Chambouleyron is non-resident fellow at the Institute of the Americas. He has worked extensively in the private sector as an economist and consultant for public utilities (electricity, natural gas, water and sanitation, and telecommunications) and other regulated and non-regulated businesses. His work involves economic analysis, pricing and rate setting, valuation, business advisory, regulatory design […]
Mo Tao

Mo Tao is a graduate student at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. Originally from China, she studied environmental resources engineering in Japan before earning her Ph.D. in Geophysics in the United States. Her academic and professional interests center on the intersection of technology and policy, with a focus […]