Zarrar Khan
Senior Expert - Integrated Assessment Models
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolZarrar Khan is a Senior Expert in Integrated Assessment Models with over a decade of experience linking climate, energy, water, and land systems to inform national net-zero strategies and resilience planning across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He has led multi-institutional modeling teams at PNNL and Climate Analytics and advised multilateral and US agencies (World Bank, IDB, USAID, DOE, State Dept.) on policy-ready analysis and capacity building. His work spans end-to-end model integration, containerized multi-sector tooling, and interactive dashboards—delivering scalable software like Metis and GCIMS to bridge research and stakeholder decision-making. Zarrar combines deep technical rigour from a PhD in Sustainable Energy with hands-on engineering roots in geotechnical and hydropower projects, giving him rare cross-domain fluency. Equally comfortable coding model pipelines and convening ministerial workshops, he excels at turning complex, multi-scale evidence into actionable climate and investment guidance.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Project Management, Masters of Project Management at COMSATS University IslamabadBachelor's degree, Environmental Studies, Bachelor's degree, Environmental Studies at Dartmouth CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - Sustainable Energy Technologies & Strategies (SETS), Doctor of Philosophy - Sustainable Energy Technologies & Strategies (SETS) at Universidad Pontificia ComillasTU DelftDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sustainable Energy Technologies & Strategies (SETS), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sustainable Energy Technologies & Strategies (SETS) at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Master's degree, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (42)
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nexus10
metis10
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gis9
git8
scenarios7
journal7
visualize7
health7
open-access7
creative-commons6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JGCRI/metis
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Webpage: https://jgcri.github.io/metis/ Cheatsheet: https://github.com/JGCRI/metis/blob/master/metisCheatsheet.pdf
Contributions:1 release, 335 commits, 293 PRs in 2 years 6 months
pdfblobmastercheatsheetmetis
JGCRI/khan-etal_2022_tethysSSPRCP
Nov 2021 - May 2023
Meta Repository for Tethys paper. Global monthly sectoral water use for 2010-2100 at 0.5° resolution across alternative futures.
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 6 months
metaresolutiontethyswaterfutures
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