Dr. Gautam Jain

Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), School of International and Public Affairs
1255 Amsterdam Avenue MC3323 New York, NY 10027 USA

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Gautam Jain is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He focuses on the role of financial markets and instruments, including thematic bonds and carbon markets, in the energy transition, particularly in emerging economies.

Dr. Jain has an extensive background in the financial industry where he covered emerging markets as a portfolio manager and strategist. He has worked at asset management firms and an investment bank, including The Rohatyn Group, Barclays Capital, and Millennium Partners. He has helped manage emerging market local debt and hard-currency bond portfolios, encompassing currencies, interest rate instruments, and sovereign credits. He specialized in portfolio construction and asset allocation incorporating macroeconomic, policy, and political developments in emerging markets.

He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University. He also has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a CFA charter holder, a Cornell EMI Fellow, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

PUBLICATIONS

Gautam Jain and Gauri Singh, “A Pathway for Africa to Raise Green Financing,” African Business, November 20, 2023
Gautam Jain and Jonathan Elkind, “Climate Finance to Be Front and Center at COP28,” Energy Explained, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, November 14, 2023
Gautam Jain and Gauri Singh, “How can India Lower its Cost of Issuing Green Bonds?” The Economic Times: Energyworld, October 26, 2023
Gautam Jain, Luisa Palacios, and Harry Verhoeven, “Can Debt-for-Climate Swaps Help Heavily Indebted Developing Countries Address Climate Priorities?” Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, September 14, 2023
Gautam Jain, “A Potential Path for Alleviating Currency Risk in Emerging Market Green Bonds,” Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, September 7, 2023
Noah Kaufman, Chris Bataille, Gautam Jain, and Sagatom Saha, “The US Broke Global Trade Rules to Try to Fix Climate Change—To Finish the Job, It has to Fix the Trade System,” The Conversation, September 5, 2023
Abraham Silverman, Gautam Jain, Dafni Papapolyzou, Kavyaa Rizal, Devan Samant, and Josh Williard, “What’s Next in Interconnection Reform? Lessons from International Experience,” Energy Explained, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, August 15, 2023
Abraham Silverman, Gautam Jain, Dafni Papapolyzou, Kavyaa Rizal, Devan Samant, and Josh Williard, “FERC’s Interconnection Reform: Why It Matters for the Clean Energy Transition,” Energy Explained, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, August 7, 2023
Gautam Jain, Luisa Palacios, and Harry Verhoeven, “The Intersection of Debt and Climate in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: Roundtable Report,” Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, July 18, 2023
Sagatom Saha, Noah Kaufman, Gautam Jain, and Chris Bataille, “Green Gridlock: How to Fix the U.S.-EU Climate Disconnect,” Foreign Affairs, April 25, 2023
Gautam Jain and Kaushik Deb, “India Integrates Green Bonds Into Its Decarbonization Strategy,” Energy Explained, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, March 30, 2023
Gautam Jain, “Is ESG Driving Debt Costs Higher for Oil and Gas Companies?” Energy Explained, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, March 14, 2023
Gautam Jain and Luisa Palacios, “Investing in Oil and Gas Transition Assets En Route to Net Zero,” Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, March 2, 2023
Luisa Palacios, Gautam Jain, and Daniel Propp, “Transitioning Oil and Gas Assets: Roundtable Report,” Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, March 2, 2023
Noah Kaufman, Chris Bataille, Gautam Jain, and Sagatom Saha, “Joe Biden has a Big European Climate Change Problem: His Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions is so Different it Might be Incompatible,” Fortune (reprinted from The Conversation), January 24, 2023
Noah Kaufman, Chris Bataille, Gautam Jain, and Sagatom Saha, “As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs Could Undermine Climate Efforts,” The Conversation, January 23, 2023
Gautam Jain, “Thematic Bonds: Financing Net-Zero Transition in Emerging Market and Developing Economies,” Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, December 12, 2022
Gautam Jain, “Green Bonds: A Path to Greener Pastures for Emerging Countries,” Emerging Market Multinationals Report (EMR) 2021, Cornell Emerging Markets Institute
Gautam Jain, “Taper Tantrum Versus the Current Reflationary Scare,” Emerging Markets Institute Blog, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, April 2, 2021
Manisha Barnwal and Gautam Jain, “The Rise of Indian Corporates,” Emerging Market Multinationals Report (EMR) 2020, Cornell Emerging Markets Institute
Way Kuo and Gautam Jain, “Optimal Pricing for a Target Profit: Case Study on a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory,” International Journal of Production Economics, 1998
Mark Broadie, Paul Glasserman, and Gautam Jain, “Enhanced Monte Carlo Estimates for American Option Prices,” The Journal of Derivatives, 1997
Raman Kalra and Gautam Jain, “A Continuous-Time Model to Determine the Intervention Policy for PBGC,” Journal of Banking & Finance, 1997
Gautam Jain and Karl Sigman, “Generalizing the Pollaczek-Khintchine Formula to Account for Arbitrary Work Removal,” Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 1996
Gautam Jain and Karl Sigman, “A Pollaczek-Khintchine Formula for M/G/1 Queues with Disasters,” Journal of Applied Probability, 1996

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