Sugandha is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford. 

Sugandha is an affiliate of the Economics Department, an Early Career Research Fellow at Saïd Business School (Skoll Centre), and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking at Oxford.  

Sugandha's research explores the drivers of clean tech innovation and how to commercialise early-stage technologies. She also studies policies for power sector decarbonisation, with a special focus on developing countries.

Sugandha has worked as an environmental and energy economist at Vivid Economics and ICRIER advising governments, private firms, and international organisations on climate policy, natural resource management, and energy policy.