Ameya Hadap is an MPP candidate at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, where he focuses on high-impact climate policy. In particular, he aims to advance measures that harness public and private capital to guide global markets towards better climate outcomes, allowing low-carbon solutions to propagate at scale. He is also interested in procedural bottlenecks to the energy transition like interconnection queues, utility regulation, and taxonomies.

Previously, Ameya was the strategy lead at PowerLines, a nonprofit whose mission is to elevate the U.S. conversation around energy affordability and transform the way electricity regulators do their work. He helped coordinate funder strategy and positioning around key emerging issues, including on the AI-driven increase in energy demand. He also developed strategies for recruiting different, less traditional constituencies as allies in the campaign against rising utility bills.

Before that, Ameya also spent time at the World Economic Forum and the Atlantic Council. At these organizations, he worked on numerous issues, including climate finance, nuclear energy policy, and cybersecurity. Ameya hopes to take these experiences and marry them with his education at Yale to bring attention and resources to bear on the most potentially transformative components of the global energy transition.

Ameya is a native of New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 2021, with a degree from the School of International Affairs and certificates in French language and culture, as well as statistics and machine learning. In his free time, he loves cooking, playing music, and competing in basketball and other team sports.