Tim Sahay
Tim Sahay is the co-director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University where he researches clean energy supply chains and net-zero industrial policies to catalyze strategic collaborations between government and industry. He was at the Green New Deal Network 2021-23, where his policy and legislative team became the base of a federal advocacy campaign to win the largest climate bills in US history. At the Network, he worked with labor unions, community organizations, and firms across 24 states in the US to create a broad political coalition. He advised Congressional offices designing investment, trade, procurement, and industrial policies that simultaneously create good jobs, address climate change, and curb racial and economic inequity.
Tim is the co-editor with Kate Mackenzie 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.