Kenneth Lee is the Executive Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in India (EPIC-India). Previously, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Energy Institute at Haas and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley.

He works on topics related to international development, environmental and energy economics. He holds a PhD and MSc from UC Berkeley, an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a BCom from McGill University. Prior to graduate school, he worked at an investment bank in London covering media and telecoms companies in Africa, Europe, and Canada.