
Afeena Ashfaque is the associate director with the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at Center for Strategic and International Studies. Her research focuses on Indian domestic policy, particularly the role played by India’s states in setting policy and driving development. She is responsible for coordinating the U.S.-India State and Urban Initiative, the chair’s first-of-its-kind effort to build subnational partnerships to drive energy development in India and the United States. Previously, she worked on facilitating bilateral trade in agriculture between India and South Africa while working at the South African High Commission in New Delhi, India.
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U.S.-India Subnational Forum: SNA Innovation Competition
Event by Afeena Ashfaque — July 20, 2022

U.S.-India Clean Energy and Climate Action and Collaboration: A Subnational Perspective
Event by Afeena Ashfaque and Katherine B. Hadda — July 20, 2022

Memorandum Of Agreement Signing -Umass Amherst And National Institute Of Wind Energy, India
Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , John McCarthy , Dr. K. Balaraman , and Judy Chang — September 22, 2021

MoU signing between NASEO-AREAS
Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm , Shri Bhagwanth Khuba , Sh. Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi , Andrew Light , David Terry , Jeevan Kumar Jethani , and Sandy Fazeli — July 15, 2021

U.S.-India Agricultural Cooperation
Blog Post by Afeena Ashfaque — February 11, 2021

States’ Forum: Dialogue on Renewable Energy Integration
Event by Sarah Ladislaw , Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Marco Padula , Andrew McAllister , Mahendra Jain , and Sanjay Dubey — November 5, 2020

Florida - Chhattisgarh: Dialogue on Decarbonization
Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Mr. Alok Katiyar , and Kelley Smith Burk — October 15, 2020

Madhya Pradesh – New York: Dialogue on Decarbonization
Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Mr. Sanjay Dubey , and John Lochner — October 1, 2020

U.S.-India State-Level Energy Cooperation: Adapting to the Pandemic
Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Will Toor , Patrick Woodcock , Megan Levy , and Sandy Fazeli — August 4, 2020

Inter-State Panel on Reaching the Unreached
Event by Richard M. Rossow and Afeena Ashfaque — February 5, 2020
