Afeena Ashfaque

Associate Director, Wadhwani Chair in U.S. – India Policy Studies
Afeena Ashfaque

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

CSIS in collaboration and Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (AREAS) conducted the SNA Innovation Competition (SIC) to provide an opportunity for the SNAs to showcase their innovative clean energy projects

Event by Afeena Ashfaque — July 20, 2022

Photo: CSIS

MoU signing between NASEO-AREAS

The CSIS, supported by the SED Fund, was pleased to facilitate a singing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) and India’s Association of Renewable Energy Agencies of States (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

Photo: iLab/CSIS

U.S.-India Agricultural Cooperation

There is a role for U.S. investors to bring skills, technology, and opportunities for scaling up U.S.-Indian collaborative research initiatives, particularly in the emerging area of sustainable agriculture.

Blog Post by Afeena Ashfaque — February 11, 2021

Photo: MOLLY RILEY/AFP/Getty Images

States’ Forum: Dialogue on Renewable Energy Integration

Building on years of partnership to connect Indian and U.S. subnational entities, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), hosted an inaugural U.S.-Indian States Clean Energy Leadership Forum to encourage the exchange of best practices on pressing clean energy opportunities and challenges.

Event by Sarah Ladislaw , Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Marco Padula , Andrew McAllister , Mahendra Jain , and Sanjay Dubey — November 5, 2020

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Florida - Chhattisgarh: Dialogue on Decarbonization

CSIS hosted the third virtual private roundtable of the Clean Energy Leadership Group on October 15, 2020.

Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Mr. Alok Katiyar , and Kelley Smith Burk — October 15, 2020

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U.S.-India State-Level Energy Cooperation: Adapting to the Pandemic

Building on years of partnership to connect Indian and U.S. subnational entities on pressing energy sector opportunities and challenges, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and National Association of State Energy Officials hosted a virtual States’ Forum to encourage an exchange of best practices on Covid-19 response and recovery efforts.

Event by Neelima Jain , Afeena Ashfaque , Will Toor , Patrick Woodcock , Megan Levy , and Sandy Fazeli — August 4, 2020

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Inter-State Panel on Reaching the Unreached

CSIS, along with CLEAN, hosted an Inter- state panel (public event) on reaching the unreached and an invitation only private roundtable discussion to build connections and share knowledge offering solutions to India’s energy access problem.

Event by Richard M. Rossow and Afeena Ashfaque — February 5, 2020