Parul Bakshi, Deputy Director - Energy Transitions

Dr Parul Bakshi is Deputy Director - Energy Transitions, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Global, where she leads the work on advancing research and policy engagement on energy transition and energy security. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of energy, decarbonisation pathways and the systemic dimensions of the global energy transition. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), contributing to research on global energy markets and transitions.

Previously, she served as a Researcher at the Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo, and at Ghent University in Belgium. She was also a recipient of the Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Fellowship. Earlier in her career, Parul worked as a Research Fellow at the Florence School of Regulation – FSR Global, where her work focused on energy security in South Asia, cross-border electricity trade, interoperability and open standards in power systems, and green hydrogen policy.

Parul holds a doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, where her research examined Japan’s post-Fukushima energy transition toward renewables, drawing comparative lessons from Germany’s Energiewende.

She is the co-editor of India–Japan Relations @70: Building Beyond the Bilateral (2022) and Geographies of Exchange between India and Japan (2024). Her work has appeared in international journals and platforms including The Pacific Review, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, The Diplomat, The East Asia Forum, and The Japan Times.