Edmund Downie
PhD Student, SPIA
Edmund Downie is a PhD student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. His research seeks to identify politically durable pathways for deep decarbonization in China and India by using tools from political science and energy-systems modeling.
He is a co-author of the Guide to Chinese Climate Policy 2022 (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) and has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications with CGEP, the Made in China Journal, and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He has also written for the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Wire China, and Utility Dive and served as a topic expert for delegations of US elected officials visiting China. Before joining SPIA, Edmund held fellowships at think-tanks in New York, Delhi, and Calcutta and served as a senior analyst at Analysis Group in Boston. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Yunnan University in China (2017-18). He received an MPhil in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford as a Marshall Scholar (2017) and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University (2014).