Two New Faculty Join the Fletcher Community

Easwaran Narassimhan will be assistant professor of climate and energy policy. He will teach classes in the areas of environment, climate change and sustainability, further strengthening Fletcher’s academic excellence in these critical fields. He is deeply familiar with Fletcher, having earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees from the school. His doctoral research examined how developing country governments employ renewable energy policies to address socioeconomic and environmental objectives. As a faculty affiliate at Fletcher’s Climate Policy Lab, he has contributed to impactful research projects, including analyses of emissions trading systems, the environmental efficacy of Chinese overseas energy investments and the effectiveness of demand-side policies promoting electric vehicles in the United States. In addition to his accomplishments at Fletcher, Easwaran brings an interdisciplinary perspective shaped by his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University and his specialization in environmental policy and development economics. Professor Narassimhan will join Fletcher in fall 2025, making a poignant return to campus from the Sustainable Futures Collaborative in New Delhi, where he serves as a fellow and coordinator for climate policy. 

Dimitrios Skiadas will be the Constantine G. Karamanlis Chair of Hellenic and European Studies. An expert on European Union law, governance and policy, he has through his research examined an array of subjects including public law and policy, FDI law, budgetary law, combating fraud and corruption, E.U. cohesion policy and project management. He will teach courses on U.S.-E.U. relations in the 21st century and corruption, examining the concept, the causes, the consequences and the controls with regard to this phenomenon at the international level. Professor Skiadas has published 16 books. In addition to his teaching, he brings to Fletcher a wealth of professional experience, having served as Secretary General for Commerce at the Hellenic Ministry of Development, Special Secretary of European Union and Management of European Programmes at the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Executive Secretary at the Region of South Aegean, and Scientific Associate to the Vice President of the Special Permanent Committee of EU affairs at the Hellenic Parliament, a member of the Management Board of the European Centre for the development of Vocational Education and Training and as a member of the Education Committee of the Council of Ministers of the European Union. Currently Professor of European Union Law and Governance at the Department of International and European Studies / School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts of the University of Macedonia, Professor Skiadas will join Fletcher in fall 2025.