ISUW 2024 Speaker

Saket Sarraf
Founder and Principal, PS Collective

Dr. Saket Sarraf is the founder and Principal at ps Collective, a platform for advocacy, research, policy analysis, and consultancy to promote sustainable development. He is passionate about using data-driven approaches to tackle complex challenges. His current work focuses on equity, policy research, modeling, and decision support systems across buildings, cities and the electricity grid. With over 25 years of experience in India and the USA, he has worked with a wide range of clients, including government agencies, multilateral and bilateral projects, national and international foundations, advocacy groups, and corporations. He developed India’s first Building Energy Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking Tool for commercial buildings that was adopted by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. Dr. Sarraf holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA where he received the prestigious ‘Outstanding Ph.D. award’. He also has a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. In addition to his research and consultancy work, Dr. Sarraf is actively involved in teaching and community service.