Mahesh Sugathan is a Director and Principal Consultant at Mahesh Sugathan and Associates providing independent consulting services on trade, renewable energy policy, investment and business-related issues for think-tanks, international organisations and business. He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva working on trade, climate change and sustainable energy issues. Mahesh previously worked as a Programme Coordinator for Economics and Trade Policy Analysis at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, Switzerland and has also been a consultant at the World Bank’s South Asia Regional Office in India. He has also consulted for various other international organisations including the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the ACP Secretariat. He has written and spoken extensively on climate change, trade and sustainable energy related topics. Mahesh has a Masters degree in International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute in Bern. In addition,he completed undergraduate and graduate studies in Economics and International Relations at the University of Kerala and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He also pursued a summer-school programme at the London School of Economies in Environmental Economics and Econometrics. In addition, he holds an M.Phil in European studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
