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Friday, September 23 • 11:30am - 12:30pm
Accelerating ZEV Transitions: California-India Collaboration

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Electrification is a key decarbonization strategy to achieve net zero goals. This will require a shift from the business-as-usual approach for unprecedented deployment, and enhanced international cooperation. India’s electrification story has interesting parallels to the evolution of ZEV policy in California. California has among the world’s most advanced ZEV policies and has an ambitious 100% ZEV mandate by 2035, signed by the Governor. India has led with innovations in public procurement to spur EV adoption in public transportation, and electrification of last mile passenger and freight mobility in cities. While the two regions have unique differences, such as India’s large portfolio of two and three-wheelers, there are also common challenges such as electrification of hard-to-abate segments including medium and heavy duty trucks. Both regions can provide important learnings on using innovative policy design and strategic public institutions to leverage EV technology and capital to accelerate EV deployment.
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Liane Randolph

Chair, California Air Resource Board
Liane Randolph was appointed Chair of the California Air Resources Board by Governor Gavin Newsom in December 2020. She has spent most of her career in public service, specializing in environmental law and policy, effective administration, and a commitment to transparency and public... Read More →
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Jari Kauppila

Head of Secretary-General's Office, International Transport Forum at the OECD
Dr. Jari Kauppila is Head of ITF Secretary-General’s Office and Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight Division at the International Transport Forum at the OECD. His team works on wide range of transport policy issues and is responsible for the ITF’s flagship publication... Read More →
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Donald G. Hillebrand

Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Programs, Argonne National Laboratory
Don Hillebrand is the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Programs for Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Energy Technologies directorate. He is also the former director of Argonne’s Energy Systems Division, leading a team of engineers and scientists developing sustainable... Read More →
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Ravi Kota

Minister (Economic), Embassy of India, Washington DC
Dr. Kota heads the Economic wing in Indian Embassy Washington DC and deals with finance, monetary and investment issues of India and the US. He focusses on India – US economic relations and India’s investment climate. Apart from handling bilateral economic and finance issues with... Read More →
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Lewis Fulton

Director (STEPS Program), Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis
Lewis Fulton has worked internationally in the field of transportation, energy, and environment analysis and policy development for over 25 years. He is Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program (STEPS+) within the Institute of Transportation Studies at the... Read More →
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Pawan Mulukutla

Program Director (Clean Mobility), World Resources Institute (WRI) - India
Pawan Mulukutla is the Program Director - Clean Mobility and Energy Tech under Sustainable Cities at WRI India. Here, he is responsible for overall strategy, creating and maintaining delivery of research projects, stakeholder engagement and partnerships, work plan development and... Read More →
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Aditya Ramji

Lead, California-India ZEV Research Center, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Davis
Aditya Ramji is an Economist, focusing on transportation, energy systems and electric mobility. Aditya is currently leading the California-India ZEV partnership at the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, Davis. Prior to UC Davis, Aditya worked in the... Read More →
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Samir Mulgaonkar

Global Program Manager, CALSTART
Samir joined CALSTART in 2022 as Global Program Manager. He works on the Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero (D2Z) program, which includes leading D2Z recruitment, strengthening partner engagement, developing Zero Emission commercial vehicle (ZECV) infrastructure deployment roadmaps... Read More →
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Swati Dsouza

Lead Country Analyst and Coordinator (India), International Energy Agency
Swati Dsouza is an energy analyst having over 8 years of energy sector experience focused on challenges to the fossil fuel transition in emerging economies. She is also associated with the IEA as the India lead analyst and coordinator. Her research lies at the intersection of energy... Read More →
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Abhay  Bakre

Director General, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India
Abhay Bakre is the Director-General of BEE. He is a Postgraduate (M. Tech.) in Elect. Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. He belongs to 1988 Batch of Indian Railways Electrical Engineering Services, Ministry of Railways. He has worked in several Railway projects including Delhi Metro... Read More →

Friday September 23, 2022 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
DLCC Room 410
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