Indian Climate Policy - Global Commons Institute

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University of Virginia. He holds a Master’s degree from Magdalen College,
Oxford.
Chandan Mahanta is Head of the Centre for Environment and Professor in the
Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati,
India. He specializes in water quality, sediment dynamics in fluvial systems,
environmental impact, risk assessment and management, and environmental geoinformatics.
He has several years of experience in environmental aspects of
water resources, with regional specialization in Northeast India and the
Brahmaputra River Basin, and is currently working on climate change impacts
and river basins.
Udit Mathur is an environmental economist in the Vulnerability and Adaptation
Program at Development Alternatives in New Delhi. He is the project leader of
the climate change projects in Bundelkhand, a region that has been experiencing
and is very likely to witness further severe climatic changes. In this capacity, he
is helping Development Alternatives execute projects to fully understand the
implications of climate change in the region and help communities take action to
minimize these impacts. With financial support from the United Nations Institute
of Training and Research (UNITAR), he is helping to develop climate change
scenarios for the Bundelkhand region; assess socioeconomic vulnerabilities
related to agriculture; and develop strategies for adaptation. He holds a Master’s
degree from the Delhi School of Economics.
Malini Mehra is founder and CEO of the Centre for Social Markets, an Indian
non-profit at the forefront of climate mobilization and advocacy. A political
scientist and gender specialist by training, she has worked on sustainability issues
in civil society, business, and government around the world for more than 20
years. Her recognitions include: World Economic Forum “Young Global
Leader”; Asia Society “Asia 21 Young Leader”; and CNN “Principal Voice.”
She serves on a number of advisory boards including Unilever, BHP Billiton, and
Fortis.
Ligia Noronha is a Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),
India, and Director of its Resources and Global Security Division. She is
Secretary of the Asian Energy Institute, a network of Asian and non-Asian
institutes, and was Coordinator of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Partnership (REEEP) South Asia from 2005 to 2009. She currently holds the
Michael Hintze Senior Fellowship in Energy Security at the Centre for
International Security Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is a
member of the Expert Committee on Climate Change for the Government of