Mandira Roy is a research affiliate at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) and was a fellow in its Advanced Studies Program at MIT. She has a PhD and an MBA from the University of British Columbia and MS and BS in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology. Previously, she has taught in the areas of financial and managerial accounting and the economics of information at the University of Southern California, University of California–Los Angeles and Rutgers University. Her past research focused on the valuation and contracting roles of information in economic decisions and their impact on stakeholder incentives and welfare. Her current research is on the dynamic choice of energy technology portfolios for climate change mitigation and the economic impact of mitigation policies.
Contact: mandirar at mit dot edu