• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Gauri Jauhar

S&P Global

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 24 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: 

o Energy Transitions and policy development

o Energy Pricing and Market Entry Strategies

o Financial Benchmarking and Market Research

o Corporate Benchmarking and ESG In the Energy Transitions

o Board-level engagement to drive change and integration of sustainable fuels in the energy spectrum

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.”

Sessions With Gauri Jauhar

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 09:15am - 10:00am (CST) / -

    Renaissance of Biofuels: Opportunities for scale
    Panel Climate/Environment/Sustainability Technology/Innovation

    Rising oil prices coupled with dire regulatory reports on global warming have reinvigorated interest in biofuels as a low carbon fuel. What is the status of second generation biofuels technology and the scaleup possibilities? Can biofuels be looked at as a mature technology option? How can biofuels targets be met, which appear more ambitious at the current pace of scale up? How do socio-political dimensions add to the value of biofuels as a cleaner fuel choice?

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    India's Energy Security: Choices in affordability & sustainability
    Panel Climate/Environment/Sustainability Geopolitics/Energy Policy/Economics Gas

    As the Indian democracy transitions from a traditionally socialist economy to a more urbanized, service sector– and market-based energy and political economy, key questions are raised on the fuel mix, the role of national champions, and the role of partnerships with the international companies—especially for technology and the regulatory framework that supports these choices. What affordable fuel mix is optimal, and should the market or government policy decide? To decrease pollution in Indian cities, how will the fuel mix choices need to change, especially in the power and transport sectors, where fossil fuels now dominate? How can national champions leverage their customer reach in the energy sector to bring the best technologies to consumers? Once consensus is achieved on the medium- and long-term fuel mix, what are the critical parameters of a market- and customer-supportive regulatory framework?