Shubham Sharma is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP). His research focuses on policy implementation, governance of sustainability transitions, and climate technology cooperation, with comparative fieldwork across Asia and Europe. Prior to joining CSEP, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, where he worked on governance of energy infrastructure transitions, including comparative research on geothermal and hydrogen governance. He has also worked as a research intern and external consultant at the OECD’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Division, and as a policy research consultant at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), where he contributed to G20 climate technology transfer work for India’s Ministry of Finance.

He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2024) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Forestry Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. His work has appeared in Energy Research & Social Science, Review of Policy Research, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. He combines qualitative comparative methods with computational text analysis.