Shashank Mohan

Shashank Mohan

Quantitative Analysis

Shashank Mohan leads the development and management of RHG’s suite of economic models and other quantitative tools.  He works across RHG’s practice areas to analyze the impact of policy proposals and structural developments on specific markets and broader economic trends.

Prior to RHG, Shashank worked with Columbia University’s Earth Institute and the World Bank to design an electricity expansion model for Kenya and Senegal and was a program assistant at the South Asia Institute. He comes from the information technology industry, with a previous career as software engineering at Microsoft.

Shashank holds an MPA from School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

Note

The India-Iran Oil Payment Crisis

by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri and Shashank Mohan

The financial sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear program have severely disrupted Iran’s petroleum trade with its second-largest customer, India. In this note we assess the impact on global oil markets and India-Iran relations.

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    Can the Saudis Save the Oil Market?

    by Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan | January 17, 2012 As US sanctions against the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) start to bite and the EU hammers out the details of a continent-wide ban on Iranian oil imports, all eyes are on Saudi Arabia and whether the Kingdom will step in a replace lost Iranian ...

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    Iran Oil Desk

    by Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan | January 10, 2012 Real-time information and analysis on the world’s third largest oil exporter, including trade, production and exchange rate data and original RHG research.

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    Iran and the 2012 Oil Market Outlook

    by Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan | December 22, 2011 The US and Europe are stepping up the pressure on Iran by going after the country's oil exports. RHG's Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan assess what this means for global oil markets in the coming year.

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    Energy Poverty American Style

    by Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan | September 26, 2011 The term “energy poverty” is used to describe the 1.6 billion people in the developing world who lack access to electricity or the more than 2 billion who still rely on biomass as their primary source of energy. This phenomenon presents a significant barrier to economic growth in poor countries. But data released last week from the Census Bureau points to a new kind of energy poverty taking place here in the United States as the result of high oil prices and a weak economic recovery.

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    Vehicle Efficiency Standards and Future US Oil Demand

    by Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan | August 3, 2011 Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan assess the oil market impact of the 2017-2025 vehicle efficiency standards just announced by the Obama Administration.