Anand Gopal

Dr. Anand R. Gopal is the Founding Executive Director of Global Grids Catalyst, a strategic hub that modernizes and expands power grids around the world to deliver affordable, secure and reliable electricity. He is also the Founder and CEO of Elar Strategies LLC, a firm focused on providing strategic advise and services on clean energy, transportation, industry and food systems.

Anand was Executive Director, Policy Research at Energy Innovation, a non-partisan clean energy policy thinktank. During his tenure, Energy Innovation played a pivotal role in advancing large-scale climate policies in the U.S., China and Europe.

Anand has also served to advance global electrification and clean energy through senior roles at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He serves on the Board of many influential organizations: the International Council on Clean Transportation, the Good Food Institute, Mighty Earth and Veloz. He is a regular contributing author on the energy transition at Forbes.

He is a Distinguished Alumni awardee from Cal Poly Humboldt, where he received an M.S. in Environmental Systems. He also holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California Berkeley and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.