Organising Committee

Suruchi Bhadwal is a Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) at the Earth Science and Climate Change Division. Her focus has been mainly on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation assessments working in close association with the communities. She has been closely associated with the International Human Dimensions Programme, has contributed as a Lead Author for the IPCC AR4 WGII Report and also serves as a Review Editor for the IPCC AR5 WG II Report and the IPCC Special Report on Extreme Events

Dr. Kavya Michael is Associate Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India. Her research examines the multiple intersections of climate change/environmental hazards, urban inequality, and development in Indian cities. She is also a recipient of the International Development Research Council (IDRC) Climate Leadership Fellowship. Her work is oriented strongly within the urban climate justice paradigm and has emphasized the need for bringing a climate justice lens to adaptation science

Dr. Nambi Appadurai currently serves as the Director & Strategy Head of the Climate Resilience Practice of World Resources Institute (WRI) India. His overarching research interests intersect the areas of sustainable development, climate risk management, adaptation, environmental policy, institutional development and governance. His international career includes stints with the World Bank, United Nations Environment Program, Asian Development Bank and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR). He is one of the Coordinating Lead authors of the recently published Hindukush Himalayan Monitoring & Assessment Program (HIMAP) and has also served as a reviewer for the IPCC Assessment reports

Leslie Ashburner is a senior project manager at the University of Cape Town (UCT), working in furtherance of the sustainable development goals. She was responsible for the delivery of the Adaptation Futures 2018 conference in Cape Town. This included organising the academic programme as well as oversight of the conference budget and logistics as well as securing funding and managing the logistics for the participation of over 300 climate change academics from the global South to the conference. She is currently leading on a UK Aid funded Transforming Energy Access – Learning Partnership to build post-graduate capacity for the clean energy sector in Africa

Sonal Bajaj is a Post Graduate in Market & Management and is currently working as Manager – Planning & Marketing with The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She has been with the organization for the more than a decade and has been responsible for planning, organizing, managing and coordinating various types of events within India and abroad for TERI

Amir Bashir Bazaz is Lead-Practice at IIHS and works on issues at the intersection of economics, climate change mitigation, and adaptation and sustainable development. He has previously been the National Expert Consultant to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India for the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC and taught courses in Development & Environmental Economics during his academic engagements at Symbiosis International University, Pune. He has been a regular team member for many ‘Disaster and Climate Resilience’ projects at IIHS and teaches regularly in the Urban Fellows and the Urban Practitioners Program

Saurabh Bhardwaj is a Fellow and Area Convener at the Center of Climate Modelling at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) with over 10 years of work experience in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, climate science & modelling, teaching, training and project management. His current and past collaborations include projects with international institutes like Bjerknes Centre (BCCR), University of Bergen and Oslo in Norway, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, National Centre of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in US, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) in Thailand and national government institutes like National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida; Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune etc. He is a life time member of Indian Meteorological society

Shashikant Chopde has 27 years of experience in the development sector, specifically in rural and urban development and water management. He has worked extensively on programmes on CCA, DRR and urban resilience and has developed/ revised Climate Resilient Disaster Management Plans (DMPs) of several state and district level governments. He was involved in organising the International Conference on Adaptation in India in 2006, and has facilitated several community based adaptation approaches across India and Nepal. He has been nominated to IPCC-TGICA Expert Meeting on Decision-Centered Approaches to the Use of Climate Information in 2015

Anu Jogesh is the Policy and Governance lead at Acclimatise, an international climate change advisory and analytics company. She has an experience of over 13 years in climate risk management, policy analysis and communications and works on adaptation and risk resilience projects globally, with a focus on South and South East Asia. Prior to joining Acclimatise, Anu was with the Centre for Policy Research where she worked on State Action Plans on Climate Change in India and was a business and environmental journalist between 2001 and 2009. Her work on climate change has been featured in the Economic and Political Weekly, Forbes, Scroll, CNN, Al Jazeera etc

Aarti Narain works with the Communication Outreach & Advocacy Unit of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), as the area convenor for the group responsible for TERI’s annual flagship event, the World Sustainable Development Summit. As part of her engagements at the Institute she has worked with a wide array of partners including national and international governments; corporates; and multilateral & bilateral institutions including associating with the European Union for the 2016 and 2018 editions of the World Sustainable Development Summit. She has also researched for various projects of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art; the National Mission for Manuscripts - an initiative of the Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Government of India and Project Tiger.

Dr. Anjal Prakash is Research Director and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad India. His past associations include the TERI School of Advanced Studies in New Delhi, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal and the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs). He has two decades of experience in working on water and climate issues focusing on policy research, advocacy, capacity building, knowledge management, networking and implementation of large scale and multi-country climate change and development projects in South Asia and is also coordinating lead author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC).

Dr. Md. Golam Rabbani is head of the Climate Bridge Fund (CBF) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr. Rabbani has been working on environment and climate change issues at national and regional level for about seventeen years, mainly in the areas of climate finance, climate risk and vulnerability assessment, policy and institutional analysis and climate adaptation. He was one of the key team members for preparing Bangladesh’s National Adaptation Programmes of Action (2005), Second National Communication (2012) and Adaptation Chapter for the Third National Communication of Bangladesh and has been involved in climate negotiation since 2008

Dr. Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Assistant Professor at Department of Energy and Environment of the TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi is an inter-disciplinary researcher by training. His research interests include theories and practices of justice, especially in reference to the interaction of energy, technology, and environmental policy in multi-level governance and fragmented society contexts. His current research focuses on implementation of India's NDC and technology cooperation needs therein, mainstreaming gender into implementation of India's NDC, role of sub-national and non-state actors in scaling up climate action in developing countries. He has assisted the Government of Nepal in accessing technical assistance from the CTCN, UNFCCC's technology mechanism