Jameel Jamhar

Jameel is a Graduate Student Researcher at the Global South Center for Clean Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, and an M.S. candidate in Energy Systems with a focus on transport decarbonization and energy finance. With a background in chemical engineering, his experience includes work on hydrogen, power sector decarbonization, transport modeling, and project finance analysis. He is interested in how emerging economies can lower transport and power emissions while dealing with grid limits, technology costs, and risks around critical minerals. 

At the Global South Center for Clean Transportation, Jameel builds quantitative models to understand how vehicle fleets in African countries, the broader Global South, and the United States evolve under different policy, technology, and trade conditions. His work focuses on projecting changes in powertrains, tracking used vehicle imports, and estimating how these patterns affect energy use and emissions over time. He also contributes to battery chemistry and trade flow analysis, studying how dependence on particular suppliers and technologies shapes costs and supply security. Jameel works with partners across Africa, international research collaborators, and vehicle manufacturers to turn these results into practical metrics on emissions, costs, and vehicle availability that can support policy, investment, and planning decisions.