Vidit Doshi is a Research Associate at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. His research interests lie in designing policies aimed at tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. He will be working with Professor Richard Zeckhauser on a project to model the optimal harvesting of trees given growing climate concerns. Before Harvard, he worked on international climate policy in the UK government and helped develop a new G7 initiative to catalyse investment into green infrastructure in developing countries.
His career began in the British civil service at a time when Brexit was the most immediate crisis and he spent two years preparing for the economic consequences of ‘no deal’ with the EU. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked in 10 Downing Street in the Prime Minister’s Office. He completed the Masters in Public Policy at the Kennedy School as a Kennedy Scholar in 2024. He also holds a first-class degree from the University of Oxford in Biology and went on to study Economics at the University of Cambridge as a postgraduate.