Rohit Chandra is a political scientist and economic historian working primarily on energy, infrastructure and varieties of capitalism in India. His recent work has covered the coal and power industries. Over the last decade, he has worked in the policy space on coal sector reforms, the politics of state discoms (particularly in Jharkhand), and public finance decisions behind large infrastructure projects. He is an Assistant Professor at IIT-Delhi's School of Public Policy. There he continues his work on coal and power, but has also expanded into the political economy of infrastructure, infrastructure finance, just transitions and the characteristics of Indian capitalism.