Bikash Pandey

Bikash Pandey is Winrock’s director of Clean Energy & Circular Economy. Winrock’s energy programs help improve access to energy for underserved communities and increase clean electricity on the grid. Modern energy services are used to expand economic opportunity in rural areas and improve health care, education and living standards. Winrock’s work in circular economy includes reduction in plastic use, waste-to-energy and composting. Pandey’s work experience encompasses more than 20 years in policy review, design and implementation of a range of clean/renewable energy projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A technical specialist in micro- and mini-hydropower systems, he has designed and implemented numerous community-based electrification, clean transportation projects, small-scale mini-grids and home energy systems. He has extensive experience in developing small-scale renewable energy projects as activities under the Clean Development Mechanism, a U.N. climate framework established under the Kyoto Protocol. Pandey also brings experience encouraging policy change within governments, bilateral and multilateral donors to support clean energy and circular economy. He holds a master’s in energy and resources from the University of California at Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from MIT.