Amardeep Dhanju

At Johns Hopkins, Amardeep Dhanju serves as a lecturer in the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy program where he brings more than 16 years of experience across the federal government, consulting, industry and academia. Working at the intersection of energy policy, environmental permitting, and AI applications for energy and environmental systems. he supports permitting and development of renewable energy projects and energy-efficient data centers at Aspen Environmental Group and serves on the company’s AI implement committee. He also provides electricity and natural gas system analysis support to the California Energy Commission.

Previously, Dhanju spent a decade as a senior policy analyst supporting the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at the U.S. Department of Interior. There, he contributed to regional and national environmental planning through large-scale, data driven assessments. A published researcher and associate editor for the Energy for Sustainable Development journal, he has coauthored articles in leading journals and taught in the JHU MS in Energy Policy and Climate program since 2015. Dhanju earned this PhD from the University of Delaware and was a Knauss fellow in Washington D.C. He lives in San Francisco.