India Summer Fellow, 2026
Alexander Antelman is an undergraduate at the University of Chicago studying Economics and Environment, Geography and Urbanization Studies. He is interested in how energy systems, commodity markets, and urban infrastructure shape climate outcomes in fast-growing economies. On campus, he co-founded the UChicago Commodity Trading Club, where he helps build educational programming on energy and transition-critical commodities. Through the India Summer Fellows Program, he hopes to learn directly from Delhi and Ahmedabad and gain a grounded perspective on climate and growth tradeoffs.
“This fellowship gave me a ground-level view of climate challenges I’d only studied in the abstract before, from presenting on methane capture at Ahmedabad’s Pirana landfill to sitting in on EPIC India sessions on emissions trading. Moving between field sites and policy discussions showed me how questions of infrastructure, energy, and growth are inseparable in a place like India, and it’s reshaped how I think about the economics of climate solutions.”