Narayan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Columbia University in 2013 with a B.S. in earth and environmental engineering and a minor in political science. Narayan has worked as a research associate at the Environmental Law Institute and served as an advisor to the Republic of the Marshall Islands on the climate change negotiations that produced the Paris Agreement. He has worked in energy policy in various capacities serving as a policy fellow at the California Governor’s Office, a legal fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and as a research fellow for the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at Johns Hopkins University. This past summer, Narayan worked on the legal aspects of clean energy finance at Norton Rose Fulbright. He is pursuing an MPA/J.D. with Columbia Law School and aspires to work on U.S. and international climate and energy policy.