International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management 2022 Speaker

Kuhika Gupta

Associate Director of Energy and Security

The University of Oklahoma

Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

Kuhika Gupta is the Associate Director of Energy and Security at OU’s Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA). She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Policy and an M.A. in International Relations. Her research focuses on the policy process and how social, political, and institutional factors influence policymaking. She studies multiple policy domains including energy policy, environmental policy, and weather and climate policy. She has spent over a decade studying public perceptions regarding nuclear energy as well as the factors that influence nuclear facility siting from a global comparative perspective. She has led and managed several federally funded projects studying the public views about nuclear energy using multiple data streams including surveys and social media data. Her research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including Energy Policy, Policy Studies Journal, Nature-Climate Change, and Review of Policy Research.