Mentor: Michael Greenstone
Asad Javed is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, where he specializes in finance, econometrics, and energy policy. He brings over a decade of experience in policy analysis and financial operations spanning central banking, commercial banking, and U.S. state government. At the central bank of Pakistan (SBP), where he served for nearly six years, he led sovereign debt auctions and played a key role in monetary policy implementation and financial stability through open market operations, repo transactions, and liquidity management. He also directed national financial inclusion initiatives that reached over 200,000 underserved individuals. He recently served as a Summer Policy Analytics Fellow at the Illinois Governor’s Office of Equity, where he helped build statewide digital inclusion metrics and cross-agency performance dashboards.
As a Bartlett Fellow at EPIC, Asad is working under the mentorship of Professor Michael Greenstone to contribute to the Institute’s energy and climate research agenda. His role will evolve over the academic year, and he aims to apply rigorous empirical methods and reproducible data pipelines to support decision-ready policy research on global energy transitions. He is particularly interested in advancing equitable access to affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy in regions facing the twin challenges of growth and climate vulnerability.