GENDER AND POLICY IN INDIA, 2018

Mode: New Delhi / Bangalore
The School of Policy and Governance is excited to announce our next Executive Education Program:
Gender and Policy in India, 2018: 23 Feb 2018, Location: New Delhi (India International Centre) & 26 Feb 2018, Location: Bangalore (Jain University).
Join us for a two-day program in New Delhi or Bangalore to learn from some of the highly acclaimed academics and practitioners from India and around the world. You will have the opportunity to learn about the current state of Indian policy on Gender.

The program is suitable for professionals and postgraduate students alike. Applications will open on the 15th of January and will be accepted until the 20th of February.

Based on the response to our last event, apply early as spots will run out very fast. Less than 50% of those who applied to the last Executive Program made it to the final participants’ list.

Speakers

Dr Tanya Jakimow

Speaking in New Delhi and Bangalore

Tanya Jakimow is a Senior Lecturer of Development Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her current research, funded by an Australian Research Council DECRA (2013-17), investigates the ways decentralized governance and community driven development engender possibilities and foreclosures for self-formation in Dehradun, India and Medan, Indonesia.In Dehradun, she has conducted research with women municipal councillors, with a particular interest in the ways affect and emotion bear upon urban governance.

Ms Karuna Nundy

Speaking only in New Delhi

Karuna Nundy is a constitutional, commercial and media lawyer. She was included by an Economic Times jury in a list of ‘Corporate India’s Fastest Rising Women Leaders’ which cited her as being ‘famous in the corporate world for her expertise in commercial law’. Karuna worked as a lawyer in New York, international tribunals and the United Nations. She is a lawyer at the Supreme Court in India and the focus of her work is on constitutional law, commercial litigation and arbitration, media law and legal policy. Her more high profile cases include the role in seeking justice for the victims of the Bhopal Gas tragedy and striking down section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 (online speech). She was described by Forbes Magazine as a “Mind that Matters”, by Mint as the “Agent of Change” and by The Times of India as one of three feminists leading a new wave.

Dr Meera Velayudhan

Speaking only in New Delhi

Dr. Meera Velayudhan has been involved in gender studies since its inception in India since the early 1980s, to an extent, conducted within the discipline of History. Her doctoral research, focused on gender, caste, social reform, nationalism and popular movements in Kerala and an earlier CWDS study-the coir workers’ struggles in Kerala was one of the early labour studies which pointed to the complexities of studying gendered identities in social movements in a context where structural changes were taking place in the industry The focus of her research since then has been on strategies of organization of women in varied contexts, historical and contemporary. Meera has also been part of designing and conducting courses, attempting more engaging methods of conducting gender studies and participated in international, including UN advocacy courses on gender at Rutgers(USA). She perceives her strength in her ability to draw upon and evolve theoretical frameworks based on field surveys/ collection of oral narratives to explore the linkages between individual experience and macro processes and its policy implications.

Ms Madhavi Goradia Divan

Speaking only in New Delhi

Madhavi Goradia Divan is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India on a range of subjects which include constitutional law, media law and environment law. She holds a degree in law from Cambridge University where she was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar. Prior to 2007 she was based in Mumbai where she practiced as a counsel before the Bombay High Court and had a largely commercial law practice. She has also appeared pro bono in several public causes which involve environmental issues, gender rights, child rights and rights of the visually challenged. She has represented the Government of India in several landmark constitutional cases in the Supreme Court including the Triple Talaq case and the NJAC case on judges’ appointments. Madhavi is the author of a leading book on media law titled “Facets of Media Law” published by Eastern Book Company and now in its second edition. The book is widely used by practitioners and media persons and is a recommended text book in several law schools across India. Apart from her law book, Madhavi Divan regularly writes for leading law journals and newspapers. She is the editor of The Indian Advocate, a journal published by the Bar Association of India. She has been a guest lecturer at several law colleges across India and has participated in several law conferences as a speaker on media law and gender rights.

Ms Nilanjana Sengupta

Speaking in New Delhi and Bangalore

Nilanjana Sengupta is a researcher and practitioner in the space of gender and development. She has taught, worked and published on issues of labour, poverty and microfinance. After more than a decade as faculty with Women’s Studies Centres at Jadavpur University. Kolkata and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Tuljapur, she joined the development sector in 2015 with the goal of bringing the action, research and policy together. Currently, she is based at the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad as Programme Analyst, Gender and Governance Unit, UN Women.

Ms Masooma Ranalvi

Speaking in New Delhi and Bangalore

Masooma Ranalvi is a Law graduate from the Government Law College, Mumbai. She is also a Chevening Scholar and has a Diploma in Women Leadership and Management, from the University of Bradford, U K and has worked on conflict resolution and communal harmony and gender empowerment in India. Masooma is actively involved in the women’s movement in India. Being a Muslim she focuses on issues concerning Muslim women and has been campaigning on several issues impacting the basic freedoms of Muslim women as such.In 2015 Masooma Ranalvi founded WeSpeakOut, a Bohra Muslim women’s Collective to build awareness on FGM in India and promote legal advocacy on the subject.

Ms Subarna Ghosh

Speaking in New Delhi and Bangalore

Subarna Ghosh is an academic-activist whose journey to reclaim women’s reproductive rights gained momentum in 2017 with a petition to the Government of India asking to make it mandatory for all hospitals to publicly declare their Caesarean numbers. It has been signed and shared by over three lakh people and received strong support from WCD minister Maneka Gandhi and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis. Following the petition, the Central Government has announced that all hospitals seeking empanelment under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) would be required to publicly display their Caesarean percentage so that pregnant women can make informed decisions about the service provider.

Ms Vrinda Grover

Speaking only in New Delhi

Vrinda Grover is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights and women’s rights activist based in New Delhi, India. As a lawyer she has appeared in prominent human rights cases and represented women and child survivors of domestic and sexual violence; victims and survivors of communal massacre, extrajudicial killings and custodial torture; sexual minorities; trade unions; and political activists. Focused on the impunity of the state in relation to human rights violations, her research and writing enquires into the role of law in the subordination of women; the failure of the criminal justice system during communal and targeted violence; the effect of ‘security’ laws on human rights; rights of undocumented workers; challenges confronting internally displaced persons; and examines impunity for enforced disappearances and torture in conflict situations. Time magazine identified her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.

Dr Priyanca Mathur Velath

Speaking only in Bangalore

Dr. Priyanca Mathur Velath is a Researcher, Teacher, Political Scientist, Humanist. She teaches with Department of Political Science, Post Graduate Research Center, St. Joseph’s College. Her noted research is into Migration and Political Science. She has extensively talked about the issues of migrants including, Rohingyas.

Ms Madhu Bhushan

Speaking only in Bangalore

After graduating with a Master’s degree in Mass Communications from Bangalore University in 1983, Madhu Bhushan joined as a full-time member of the CIEDS Collective and Vimochana, forum for women’s rights where till 2014 she worked as part of the women’s movement on crisis intervention, community outreach and campaigns and advocacy. She also has written, reflected and spoken on diverse issues related to gender, cinema, communalism and human rights. Since 2014 as a retired public feminist of sorts, she continues to be an independent activist-writer and (re) searcher; occasionally involved with filmmaking and extending support and solidarity to various networks and social movements including that of the sex workers, transgenders, women and youth.

Ms Raksha Kumar

Speaking only in Bangalore

Raksha Kumar is a multimedia journalist focusing on human rights, politics and social injustices. In the past six years, she has reported for The New York Times, BBC, Guardian, TIME, South China Morning Post, Scroll and The Hindu. In 2017, she was shortlisted for Kurt Schork Memorial Awards in International Journalism. For her work on land conflicts in India, she was awarded the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Media Personality in 2016. As a reporter, her focus areas are land and forest rights of the most vulnerable communities. However, since these issues cannot be looked at in isolation, Raksha found herself increasingly reporting on armed conflict around resource extraction in places like Chhattisgarh and Kashmir. In 2015, she wrote, shot and directed a documentary film on Rationalists in Contemporary India. It was aired by India’s public broadcaster, Doordarshan. The film has been screened in 19 locations across the country until now. The same year, Raksha was selected as a Chevening Fellow by the University of Westminster to research on Hindu Right in the UK. This helped Raksha build on her post-graduate dissertation which was on Hindu Fundamentalists in India. With a Fulbright Scholarship for Leadership Development, she went to the Columbia University in New York City to pursue a Masters in Science. As a student, she was offered the Scripps Howard Fellowship to report from Israel and the West Bank. Since 2011, Raksha has reported from 11 countries across the world.

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Chandrakanth B N

Chandra is a passionate creator with an empathetic business sense and an entrepreneur who left a high flying career in the US, to chase an Indian dream. He has been involved in establishing several companies since 1996. His ventures have ranged from IT Services, Digital Media operations, Manufacturing and Training. As the Chairman of Pairee, he oversees several investments made by the company.

Prior to Pairee, Chandra was the Founder and Managing Director of Theorem India, which he started with just two people in 2002 and grew it to over 1300+ people globally spread across 4 continents, serving several global blue chip brands and establishing a sprawling campus in Mysore before leaving at the end of 2013. Chandra also enjoys investing, advising and mentoring start-up companies and is on the board of a several such companies. He is also passionate about giving back to the society. His Pairee Foundation is helping educate the rural youth of India and making them job ready. Chandra holds a Masters degree in Industrial Management from Northern Illinois University, Chicago and a BE degree from Bangalore University. He is a leading voice in the IT Industry and regularly speaks at global conferences. He is also an active member of various industry groups in the technology world. Chandra and his work regularly feature on national and regional TV channels.


Monika Barthwal-Datta

Monika Barthwal-Datta is Senior Lecturer in International Security in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. Before joining UNSW in 2012, Monika was a MacArthur Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS), University of Sydney, where she led a two-year research project on ‘Food Security in Asia: Strategic Risks and Mitigation.’ Her research areas include critical security studies, non-traditional security, the international politics of South Asia and Indian foreign policy.

Monika was awarded her PhD by Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London and holds an MScEcon in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University. She also has a Master’s in International Journalism from Cardiff University and has worked as a Broadcast Journalist for the BBC World Service Radio in London for several years. Since making Sydney her home in late 2010, Monika has been actively involved in the Australia-India space through her research and community engagement. Monika was a Director and a Steering Committee member of the Australia India Youth Dialogue. She is also on the Executive Committee of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA) and on the editorial board of the journal Asian Studies Review. Monika is the author of ‘Understanding Security Practices in South Asia: Securitization Theory and the Role of Non-State Actors’ (Routledge 2012) and ‘Food Security in Asia: Challenges, Policies and Implications’ (IISS and Routledge, 2014), and has spoken at TEDx Orange (NSW, Australia) on the role of small family farms in global food security.


Ruchir Punjabi

Ruchir is a Co-Founder & Chief Digital Officer at Distributed Energy (www.de.energy). Distributed Energy matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, the Middle East, and India.

Ruchir formerly founded Langoor (www.langoor.com) – one of APAC’s largest independent digital agencies that were later sold to Havas Group in 2019. Langoor started in his living room in Sydney before growing to 200+ people digital agency across the Asia Pacific. He continues to be a Board Director and Evangelist for the business.

Passionate about social change, Ruchir has started a number of social and not for profit organizations. After the International student crisis in Australia in 2010, Ruchir created the Australia India Youth Dialogue, a Track II diplomatic dialogue between the young leaders of Australia and India. Ruchir is also the Founder of a School of Policy and Governance and Samarthan India. Ruchir is a Computer Science graduate from Sydney University and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He serves as Director on a number of not for profit and business Boards, including investing in some of them.


Vidyanand Sagaram

Vidyanand Sagaram joined the Victorian Government Business Office in 2009 to head their Skilled and Business Migration portfolio for South and South East Asia. In 2011 he was appointed as the Director for Strategic Projects with a primary focus on the whole-of Victorian government initiatives. To deliver the key initiatives and priorities of the government he has been engaging very closely with the Indian governments both State and Federal, industry groups and various Victorian departments.

Vidya was also the Director for the Australia India Youth Dialogue which hosts young leaders from Australia and India at an annual conference, held in India and Australia in alternate years. He is currently on the Executive Council of the Indo Australian Chamber of Commerce. Vidya has previously worked for La Trobe University in India heading their operations for South Asia, prior to that with Hobsons Solutions and Telstra in Melbourne. He holds a Master’s degree from Monash University, Melbourne.


Rishi Suri

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Manuraj Sundaram

Manuraj is a lawyer practicing at the Madras High Court and is also a Media Spokesperson for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. He has rich experience in the field of public policy after working as a Parliamentary Advisor for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam for 5 years.

In November 2010, Manu was a Fellow of the ‘Legislative Fellows Program’ organized by the US State Department. In July 2013, Manuraj was invited to participate in the ‘European Union Visitor Program’, with fellowships in Brussels, Strassbourg and The Hague.

Manuraj has run tech-based outreach campaigns to engage citizens on civic issues and study participatory governance models.


Sanushka Seomangal

Sanushka Seomangal is a Partner in Thomson Geer’s Sydney office where she specialises in equity and debt capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. With particular expertise in public and private equity fundraising, initial public offerings (IPOs), and mergers and acquisitions involving both private and listed companies, Sanushka also advises her clients on general corporate matters. Sanushka’s practice is largely cross-border with an Asia-focus and she has expertise in capital markets and M&A transactions involving clients in the PRC, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and India. Amongst her professional achievements, Sanushka was named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence in 2018 and was a finalist at the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2019.

Sanushka holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Natal, South Africa, a Master of Applied Law from the University of Queensland, Australia and a Master of Business Law from the University of Sydney, Australia. Sanushka has a particular interest in India and is a member of the board of the Australia India Council, the National Vice Chair of the Australia India Business Council, and co-founder of the Australia India Youth Dialogue. She is also a member of UN Women Australia and Philanthropy Australia’s New Generation of Giving.


Preethi Herman

Preethi Herman is the Global Executive Director of the Change.org Foundation and an Obama Foundation Fellow for global civic leadership. She established Change.org as a people’s platform in India – growing it from a user base of less than 2 lakh users to a current 1 crore active citizens taking action on various social change issues across the country. Under Preethi’s lead, the Change.org India team has brought several issues into national headlines and made it into a movement touching the lives of millions of Indians.

Preethi is one of the few women leaders from the Global South at the forefront of the civic technology. She has been recognised as one among the 50 most influential women in media (in India) by Impact Media in 2016 and again in 2017, was awarded Business Today’s Most Powerful Women Award in India in 2017 and was recognized by the Indian Government as one of the 25 women transforming India through the UN’s #WomenTransform initiative. At the heart of Preethi’s vision is enabling the power for people coming together to create change and leveraging technology in a decentralised structure of civil leadership. She has helped set up powerful civic and campaigning based organisations like ‘She Creates Change’ and ‘Campaign Academy India’ and serves on the boards of various Indian and International organisations.


Subhadra Menon
Head of Programs

Subhadra Menon leads SPG’s Programmes and Initiatives. She has been working in the domains of human development with a specific focus on communication and advocacy. An award-winning writer, Subhadra uses her core skills and professional experiences to contribute towards the improvement of development indices in India and the region through communication and advocacy using high calibre research, evidence-gathering, analysis, writing and documentation for public domain knowledge. She is passionate about public engagement and outreach. She has extensive experience with social and behaviour change communication, evidence-based advocacy, health literacy initiatives, knowledge management and packaging communication products for change agendas.

Subhadra has led several large programmes and initiatives for national and international organisations, mainly the Public Health Foundation of India, UNFPA India, the Futures Group, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation. Before this, Subhadra was a print journalist specialising in health, science and technology, environment and social issues. She was Principal Correspondent for the India Today magazine, among other professional affiliations.


Anushka Mukherjee

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Jennie Jehosheba Jackson

Jennie is the Programme Associate at School of Policy and Governance. She graduated with a Master of Philosophy in Social Work specialized in Human Resources from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Jennie has worked as a Social Worker and as a Human Resource Trainee in different sectors like schools, manufacturing industries and hospitality. She has also been a Volunteer at Cheshire Homes Coimbatore and has extended her support for the persons with disabilities. Jennie has also been working in a Media Post Production company based out of Bangalore for the past 3 years and has recently joined our team.


Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram

Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram is a Research Fellow at Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) and Guest Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin – under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Fellowship (for postdocs) 2022-23. She is an Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, and Co-coordinator, Centre for Climate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India. She is also a Research Fellow, Earth System Governance; Member, Climate Security Expert Network; and Member, Planet Politics Institute. She holds a PhD in Geopolitics and International Relations from MAHE. She pursued a visiting fellowship (Erasmus Mundus – short-term PhD) at Leiden University, the Netherlands during 2014-15; and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship during 2018-19. She managed a project of adelphi (Berlin) on “Climate Diplomacy”, sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office during 2015-20. Her primary fields of interest include climate politics and diplomacy, environmental security and military, regional environmental policy in Asia, and environmental peacebuilding.


Nakkeeran Nanjappan

N. Nakkeeran is Professor with the School of Global Affairs & Deputy Director of Centre for Research Methods, Dr. B.R Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD). A Gold Medallist in M.A. (Anthropology) from Madras University, Prof. N. Nakkeeran did his M.Phil and PhD from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before Joining AUD, he was with the Department of Health Services Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG - PHFI). Prof. Nakkeeran has worked, published and undertaken funded research in the areas of health social sciences, health equity, qualitative research methodology and child malnutrition. He has participated as a resource person in numerous research methodology workshops meant for research scholars and young faculty members organised across the country. While at IIPHG he had successfully conducted three-day annual workshop on Qualitative Research Methods for medical and public health professionals between 2010 and 2014 and also rolled out an online Certificate programme in Research Methodology. He also was instrumental in designing and rolling out Master of Public Health Programmes at IIPHG and AUD and a doctoral programme in Public Health at AUD. He has won a number of fellowships and research grants including 3rd & 4th Global symposium on Health Systems Research Fellowships; PHFI-Wellcome Trust Research fellowship; ICMR Research Grants; DST Research Grant and a number grants for organizing methodology workshops. Extracts from his ethnographic study of a south Indian village was published as “Conditions of Women's Work, Status and Fertility: Land, Caste and Gender in a South Indian Village”, EPW); he has co-authored an ethnographic monograph “Transfer of Home-based Newborn Care from SEARCH to Other Organizations: Process Documentation of the ANKUR Project”, (SEARCH, 2007). His other publications in this area include “Qualitative Research Methodology: Epistemological Foundation and Research Procedures”, (IJSW), “Knowledge, Truth and Social Reality: An Introductory Note on Qualitative Research” (IJCM); “Rigor and Validity in Qualitative Methods in Applied Situations” (IJPH); “Is ‘Sampling’ a Misnomer in Qualitative Research?” (Sociological Bulletin); “Disability, mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity: understanding health inequity through experience and difference” (Health Research Policy and Systems); and Beyond behaviour as individual choice: A call to expand understandings around social science in health research (Wellcomeopenresearch).


Dr Shweta Singh

Shweta Singh is Associate Professor of International Relations at the South Asian University (New Delhi, India). Her research broadly focuses on the politics of ‘everyday’, norms and WPS agenda (South Asia), critical peace and conflict studies (with a particular focus on post-colonial South Asia) , gender and populism, and contemporary politics of Afghanistan, Kashmir and Sri Lanka. She has been the recipient of the prestigious United States Leadership Award in 2010, and the Mahbub Ul Haq Award in 2013. She was recently appointed as the UN Women International Expert on populism, nationalism, and gender (Regional Office for Asia and Pacific), and as Academic Advisor for the UNESCO-MGiEP project on State of Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education in South Asia. She is co-editor (with Tiina Vaittinen and Catia Confortini), of a Rowman and Littlefield book series(which is now under process of transition) titled Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice and Violence. Her recent publications include ‘Towards an intersectional approach to populism: comparative perspectives from Finland and India’, Contemporary Politics (co-authored with Elise Feron) 2021;‘ ‘Gendering education for peace: Critical perspectives’ in Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron, Catia Confortini (eds.), Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, Routledge, 2021, ‘In between the Ulema and Local Warlords in Afghanistan: Critical Perspectives on the Everyday, Norms Translation and UNSCR 1325’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020.  


Shreelata Krishnan

Shreelata brings to the table a creative and entrepreneurial approach to developing sustainable solutions for organisations across industries. Towards this end, she is experienced in mentoring and coaching people and enterprises, implementing pioneering solutions for multi scalar, projects that help drive positive societal, economic, and climate change impact, and building capacity by employing a bottom-up approach. Shreelata has completed a master’s level education in Sustainable Transitions from the University of Aberdeen.

Intrigued and fascinated with different cultures and lifestyles, she has worked with a diverse set of national & international organisations in the fields of sustainability communication, social impact, impact monitoring and capacity building.

Early in her career, Shreelata has worked extensively in the customer service sector across hospitality, shipping and telecom industries managing multiple teams, co-founded her own online enterprise supporting nearly 30 rural and semi-urban SHGs, entrepreneurs, and brands, coached and mentored social impact entrepreneurs globally, and volunteered with various capacity-building organisations as a mentor, fundraiser, advisor, and member. She is passionate about working with people and communities, promoting the culture of entrepreneurship, working to drive social change and can speak seven languages.


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Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll

Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll is a Climate Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. He did his Ph.D. in Ocean and Atmospheric Dynamics from Hokkaido University, Japan. Dr. Koll has made breakthrough contributions to observing and predicting the Indo-Pacific climate, facilitating the food, water, and economic security of the region. He led the redesign of the Indian Ocean Observation System and the development of the first climate model from South Asia—contributing to the science, monitoring, forecasts, and climate projections of the Indian Ocean rim countries. He is currently leading research on climate change and its impacts on the monsoon, cyclones, heatwaves, and the marine ecosystem. Dr. Koll is the Chair of the Indian Ocean Region Panel and a Lead Author of the IPCC Reports. He actively collaborates with citizen science networks, local governments, and media to bring science to society. Dr. Koll is among the top 2% scientists ranked by Stanford University. He was awarded the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Devendra Lal Medal for outstanding research in Earth and Space Sciences in 2022. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Kavli Fellowship in 2015 and the NRC Senior Research Fellowship in 2018. The Indian Meteorological Society felicitated him with the Young Scientist Award in 2016 for his research on the changes in the Monsoon.


Ulka Kelkar

Ulka Kelkar is Director, Climate, World Resources Institute India. She is an economist with more than two decades’ experience in climate policy. She models the economic impacts of low-carbon development pathways for India and supports climate action in Indian cities and states. She previously worked as a consultant climate assessment specialist for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and research fellow with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). She was appointed by the Government of India to formulate India’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020) in the thematic group on Energy, Environment and Climate Change.


Lakshmi Tejaswini

Lakshmi Tejaswini P is a multifaceted professional who has successfully driven impactful initiatives across various sectors. She has a proven track record of collaborating with businesses, nonprofits, political firms and government bodies to bring about positive change.She worked with the Higher Education Department of the Government of Karnataka, contributing to the establishment of aspirational goals for 2030, and played a vital role in the passing of the UVCE Act-2021 as part of the Vision Group of Higher Education and Research. She briefly worked with NetApp's APAC team in run their Corporate Social Impact programmes. Transitioning to political consulting, she developed effective strategies and campaigns for four successful political leaders in the Karnataka Assembly Elections of 2023. Additionally, she serves as the General Secretary of the Dheerya Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting accessible holistic education for all.


Dr Tanwir Arshed

Dr Tanwir Arshed is an Assistant Professor presently teaching at the Department of Political Science, President University, Kolkata. He completed his PhD from the University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, on India Pakistan Relations and the Role of the United States. His area of interest are Indian Public Administration and Indian Foreign Policy with a specific focus on South Asia and China. He has been a former SUSI Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, USA  


Ms. Kanika Dhupar

Kanika Dhupar, is a communications and policy professional, presently working as a Consultant at the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) Reforms Secretariat, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. She completed her Masters in Journalism from School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her areas of interest are public affairs and policy, with a specific focus on multidisciplinary stakeholder engagements for global MNCs and industrial conglomerates, for addressal of issues, mitigating regulatory risks and helping them navigate the complex hierarchy of Central and State government stakeholders. With a keen interest in news, policy and communications - in her previous stints, she was an Account Director at Genesis BCW; a journalist in the print and digital domain, when she worked with Hindustan Times, The Tribune and The Indian Express. She was also the southeast-Asia reporter/producer with Barcroft Media - now ‘truly’ - London.  


Dr. Ekta Singh

Dr. Ekta Singh is an Assistant Professor in Public Policy and Governance at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). Before joining AUD, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy & Governance at TISS, Hyderabad Campus. Dr. Singh’s doctoral research looks at the interface between welfare and neo-liberalism in post-liberalization India through the lens of governance reforms in PDS. Her research interests primarily encompass policy institutions, the political economy of development, politics of welfare, comparative social policy, and governance issues. She is currently interested in critically analyzing the interface between technology and social policy.  


Adarsh

Adarsh is the Programme Design Manager at the School of Policy and Governance. He has successfully provided policy and business advice, content development, risk management and research support to various clients in both public and private sectors. As an Advisor at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Government of New Zealand, he supported and engaged with various stakeholders within and outside the government. His involvement encompassed advising on complex policy issues, cabinet papers, ministerial activities, research, and amendments.

While working at EASRB Consulting, Adarsh engaged in political consulting, programme design, strategy development, electioneering, and research for clients in both the public and private domains. During his tenure at Pinkerton Corporate Risk Management, he took on the responsibility of monitoring and analyzing potential political and security risks, in addition to coordinating emergency response protocols.

Adarsh leverages his multidisciplinary academic background in his role, holding a Master's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Victora University of Wellington, a Master’s degree in Geopolitics and International Relations from Manipal University, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University. This multidisciplinary academic and research background enables him to perceive concepts from multiple perspectives. His publications in various journals and websites demonstrate his capability to impart complex information and innovative concepts to a wide range of audiences.


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With a Master's in Environmental Studies and over 11 years of varied experience in the corporate, not-for-profit, and consulting sectors, I am an experienced civil engineer. I have strong project management skills thanks to my professional experience, which includes managing multiple projects and inspiring teams to accomplish key goals.

My area of expertise is in an intersection between project management, research, and policy formation, with a particular emphasis on generating social impact. I have a strong desire to use my managerial skills and technological knowledge to advance programmes that promote social change and sustainable development.


Dr. Balaji Kalluri is a systems engineer turned urban futurist. He describes himself as a global citizen, seasoned professional, multi-disciplinary researcher, an innovator, and a passionate educator. Since 2022, he is serving as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at FLAME University – the pioneer in liberal education in India. Before joining FLAME University, he had a special appointment as Head of Innovations and Senior Fellow (Technology, Innovation, and Society) in Tamil Nadu’s e-Governance Agency, Research & Innovation consultant in DBI Denmark, and Researcher at Future Cities Laboratory in ETH Zurich. He is the founding director of KUDOS, a bespoke urban innovation studio at FLAME University where he is leading the mission to reimagine and transform ‘the Future of Urban X’ to drive large-scale just, resilient and sustainable transition. He has also co-founded CVBi – the collective voices for buildings in India, an independent collaborative knowledge cluster to advance the building construction sector in India. His experience spans across strategic foresights, innovation management, consulting, research, engineering and education. He is a recipient of several global awards, including the prestigious Innovation Fund Denmark’s post-doctoral fellowship (2019), Singapore Ministry of Education doctoral scholarship (2013), and ‘Redefining education through creativity in India’ awardee of the Council for Creative Education Finland (2023). He holds a PhD in Building Science from National University of Singapore (2017), Masters in Microelectronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences Pilani (2009), and Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University (2006). He has a very good record of publications in high-impact, and peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Before returning to India in 2021, he lived, worked, and traveled across 40 global cities, 11 nations and 3 continents. During his spare time, he enjoys volunteering in community service activities, and teaching Vedas for spiritual aspirants through Sri Sathya Sai Vedic Society Singapore.


With a Bachelor's in Arts (History, Economics, Public Administration) and currently pursuing a Master's in Public Policy at IIT Tirupati, I bring a diverse perspective to policy research and analysis. My experience spans journalism, activism, and content development, providing me with a unique blend of skills in communication, stakeholder engagement, and policy formulation.

My expertise lies at the intersection of policy research, data analysis, and community engagement, with a particular focus on creating impactful social change. As a former journalist at Raj News and coordinator for Fridays for Future Organization, I've honed my abilities in investigating complex issues, managing teams, and driving awareness campaigns. My passion lies in utilizing my analytical skills and policy knowledge to develop innovative solutions that address pressing societal challenges and promote sustainable development.I am committed to applying my interdisciplinary background and growing expertise in public policy to contribute meaningfully to projects that uplift communities and shape a more equitable future.


Disclaimer: Climate Resources

The following free e-learning courses listed on this page are sourced from reputable organizations and platforms. While the School of Policy and Governance (SPG) strives to provide accurate and valuable content, please note the following:

  1. Third-Party Content: The courses listed here are hosted by external organizations such as the UNFCCC, < mention all the names of organizations from where the free resources are being sourced> . SPG does not directly create or endorse these courses.
  2. Content Accuracy: We recommend verifying the content’s accuracy and relevance before enrolling in any course. The information provided may evolve over time, and it is essential to stay informed.
  3. User Responsibility: Users are responsible for their learning experience and should exercise discretion when accessing external resources. SPG does not guarantee the quality, completeness, or suitability of the courses.
  4. Certification: Some courses may offer certificates upon completion. Please check the respective platforms for certification details.
  5. Privacy and Data: When accessing external platforms, users should review their privacy policies and data handling practices.

Continuous learning is essential for addressing climate challenges effectively. Explore these resources, enhance your knowledge, and contribute to a sustainable future.

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