About

Maya Chandrasekaran is an applied economist who specializes in impact evaluations, global health, and ethical and effective survey-based research. Her research has primarily focused on the gendered impacts of the energy transition in low- and middle- income countries and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has appeared in Energy Economics, Environmental Research Letters, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health. Maya holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from Duke University and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. She pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina where she primarily worked on a United Nations commission for the economic value of water and a practitioner’s book on the value of time in low- and middle-income countries, soon to be published with Oxford University Press.