The Lab brings together policy development, supply chain analysis and geopolitics

Tim Sahay is a climate policy expert with an energetic social movement-informed approach to government relations. Tim has worked over the past decade across physics, cleantech, and consulting. As the Blue-Green Cities fellow at the Charles River Watershed Association, he organized housing advocates to lobby for climate resiliency in Boston and downscaled global climate models. His industrial experience includes consulting on projects ranging from pollution in India, direct air capture in Utah, to energy transition in China. 

At Green New Deal Network 2020-3, his policy and legislative team became the base of a federal advocacy campaign to win the largest climate bills in US history and rule-making by the executive branch. He has worn many hats: strategic planner, researcher, lobbyist, coalition builder, and trainer. He has advised Congressional offices designing investment, trade, procurement, and industrial policies that simultaneously create good jobs, address climate change, and curb racial and economic inequity. At the Network, he worked with labor unions, community organizations, and industrial firms across 24 states in the US to create a broad political coalition. 

Tim is the co-editor of The Polycrisis,  a publication at Phenomenal World that focuses on the political economy of Climate with an emphasis on the global south and geopolitics. His popular writings have appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Jacobin, Le Grande Continent, and elsewhere.  Tim received a PhD in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS from University of Chicago. He hails from Mumbai and lives in New York City. He is currently Assistant Research Scientist at the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins.