• WPC 2024
  • March 18-22, 2024

Gauri Jauhar

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Executive Director, Energy Transitions & CleanTech Consulting

Gauri Jauhar is Executive Director, in S&P Global’s Energy Transition and Clean Tech Global Consulting team. She has 25 years’ experience in energy systems thinking and problem solving with energy stakeholders, using the tools of applied economics and finance with wide regional experience in the United States, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi. Gauri focuses on: Energy Transitions and policy development, Energy Pricing and Market Entry Strategies, Financial Benchmarking and Market Research, Corporate Benchmarking and ESG In the Energy Transitions, and Board-level engagement to drive change and integration of sustainable fuels in the energy spectrum. 

Gauri's views on Sustainability have been published in the book Climate Action and Hydrogen Economy (edited by Dr. Malti Goel and Gautam Sen) in the chapter, Sustainability: An Imperative.  

Gauri is a champion of Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion initiatives.

She represents S&P Global in various industry bodies such as the US India Hydrogen Task Force, US India Strategic Partnership Forum’s Renewable Energy Task Force. Prior to joining S&P Global, Gauri was Commercial Advisor – Policy & Regulatory Affairs at BP in India. She was the gas policy lead for multi-disciplinary team leading BP’s energy reforms advocacy efforts in India. Prior to joining BP, Gauri was a Senior Consultant at PFC Energy (now part of S&P Global), leading PFC Energy’s Integrated Energy business in India and Singapore across the energy value chain.

Gauri started her career as a Research Associate at the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi, analyzing macro-economic policy issues for the Indian economy and her paper with DK Joshi on “India’s Macro-Stabilization Policy in 1990s: A Review and Assessment” was published in the book, “The Indian State in Transition.”

Gauri has an M.B.A. in Finance from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. in International Economics from Radford University and an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. She has additional certifications in ESG & Climate Bonds, Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries (University of Capetown online), Economics of Clean Energy Transition (Stanford University online), Design Thinking (IDEO University online).

Sessions With Gauri Jauhar

Thursday, 21 March

  • 03:35pm - 03:55pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 08:35 pm - 21/mar/2024 08:55 pm

    Sustainability and Net Zero: A Quest for Planetary Balance

    Achieving the outcomes of sustainability and net-zero is a balancing act and characterized by key trade-offs.  Rajiv Narang will share the idea of a triangle concept of decarbonization, with the three most visible and important aspects of technology, public policy and social acceptance.  Gauri Jauhar will share the energy systems view of sustainability as the path to address the effects of climate change appears non-linear, uncertain and material.  A value on carbon and establishing carbon markets will be critical to triangulating prices, costs, and value on the path to net zero and sustainability.

Friday, 22 March

  • 10:00am - 12:00pm (CST) / 22/mar/2024 03:00 pm - 22/mar/2024 05:00 pm

    India Chemical Story

    Session 2 - India Chemical Story

    10:00 AM: Fireside Chat: India poised for take off -  Kamal Nanavaty, President, Reliance Industries Limited
    Moderator: Lyn Tattum, Vice President, Head of Events, Training and Media, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    10:25 AM: Session Introduction - Moderator: Sanjay Sharma, Head of Global Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights

    10:30 AM: India's Rise in the New World Map - Deepa Kumar, Head of Asia-Pacific Country Risk, Economics and Country Risk, S&P Global Market Intelligence
    10:45 AM: India's perspective on Petrochemical Industry - Malwinder Battu, Head Marketing - Petrochemicals, HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited 
    11:05 AM: India Logistics Outlook – Domestic & Export Markets - Rahul Kapoor, Vice President & Head of Commodity Analytics & Research, Maritime, Trade & Supply Chain, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    11:20 AM: India Energy Transition Story & Outlook - Gauri Jauhar, Executive Director, Energy Transitions & CleanTech Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    11:35 AM: Panel Discussion and Q&A  -  Moderator: Sanjay Sharma, Head of Global Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights
    11:55 AM: Closing Remarks  - Sanjay Sharma, Head of Global Chemical Consulting, S&P Global Commodity Insights