Dr. Yaroslav Melekh is a Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources. During his time at UCL, Yaroslav has worked as a Consultant on Energy Transition Technologies for the World Bank and has served as a Senior Executive Officer at the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
Yaroslav’s research spans a broad range of green transition areas, such as climate finance in developing countries; energy innovation; electricity markets and UK-EU (hybrid) interconnection; and the political economy of European energy scenarios and phasing out natural gas. Currently, he is working on the development of energy sector recovery scenarios in Ukraine, with a focus on green hydrogen opportunities and de-risking investments in renewables. His research also looks at the role of a guarantee instrument in risk underwriting for low-carbon investments in lower-income countries.
Prior to joining UCL, Yaroslav had public and private sector careers. More recently, he worked as a Country Programme Manager at the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and an Energy Attach茅 on Climate and Environment at the Embassy of Sweden in Kyiv. In this role, he oversaw a portfolio of development cooperation projects on energy & climate, collaborating with the Ukrainian and Swedish governments, multilateral development banks (MDBs), diplomatic missions, and international organisations. Before that, Dr Melekh also worked as a consultant on renewable energy investments, advised on national decarbonisation policies and the European Green Deal, and worked as a bioenergy market analyst.
