Govinda Timilsina is a Senior Research Economist at the Research Department of the World Bank. He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of energy and climate change policy modeling and analysis. His key expertise includes climate change policy analysis; general equilibrium and input-output modeling of climate change policies; climate change negotiation architecture, project-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol; climate change science, impacts, and mitigation; the GHG market; energy sector modeling; electricity economics and planning. He has authored more than 70 journal articles, conference proceeding papers, technical reports, and books. At the Bank, he was involved in several analytical studies, including low carbon studies in Brazil and Nigeria and green growth studies in Macedonia and Romania. He led the energy sector modeling task under the Romania Green Growth and Climate Change RAS.