Chandni Singh is a professor at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements. She works at the interface of climate change and development in rural and urban geographies within the Global South. biography

Lalitha Kamath is the Chairperson of the Centre for Urban Policy & Governance, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is an urbanist and planner working at the intersection of urban infrastructure, urban planning and governance, and the environment. biography

Rohit Mujumdar is a professor at the School of Environment and Architecture. He is an urban planner and architect, and a student of Southern cities and urbanisation. biography

Bhavani Raman is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focus on the histories of colonialism, especially as it pertains to questions of law, administration, and Tamil worlds. biography

Deepak Malghan is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is a chemical engineer and ecological economist at the interface of thermodynamics and scale theory. biography

Debjani Bhattacharyya holds the Chair for the History of the Anthropocene at the University of Zürich and directs the Digital History Lab. She specializes in the history of the Anthropocene, climate, environment and the British Empire. biography

Solomon Benjamin is faculty at the Department of Humanities and Social Science at IIT- Madras. Benjamin’s ongoing and collaborative research focuses on the extensive economy of youth servicing and re-engineering Smart phone and laptop refurbishment that connects India’s electronic clusters with those in SE Asia, Dubai, and Shenzhen in China. biography

Suraj Jacob is a visiting faculty with the School of Development, Azim Premji University. His academic work explores the nature of  ‘injustice’, social processes and state practices around it, and their dynamics of change. biography

Tariq Thachil is a Professor of Political Science, and the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India. He is a scholar of comparative politics, focusing on political parties and political behavior, identity politics, urbanization and migration, with a regional focus on India. biography

Lubaina is Program Head, Urban Development and Resilience with the Sustainable Cities and Transport team at WRI India. Her current work focuses on green infrastructure projects, nature-based solutions to address long-term climate risk in Indian cities, and working with vulnerable communities to build their resilience capacities. biography

Ike Uri is a graduate student in sociology at Brown University. His research focuses on the politics of climate adaptation and resilience planning in Indian cities. biography

Avni Agarwal works as a Senior Program Associate with the Urban Development team at WRI India. She has been involved in developing Mumbai’s Climate Action Plan and supporting governance interventions to mainstream climate action in Mumbai. 

Mrinalini Penumaka is a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the International Development Group and Professor Gabriella Carolini's City Infrastructure Equity Lab. Her research examines urban and infrastructure transitions in the context of cascading climate impacts. biography

Nityanand Jayaraman is an engineer-turned journalist and environmental justice advocate with 30 years experience working alongside coastal fishers in India. As an activist and scholar, his work is transdisciplinary, mobilizing skills in inclusive and critical environmental planning, co-production of knowledge and people's planning exercises, community-based environmental monitoring, and communication for social change. biography

Chitra V is a lecturer at the Australian National University. They are interested in thinking using ethnographic research to draw differently, i.e., in ways that respond to the ongoing climate crisis. biography

Ashish Kothari is an Indian environmentalist working on the development – environment interface, biodiversity policy, and alternatives. He is a member of the Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group. biography

Malini Krishnankutty is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She is an experienced urban planner. biography

Partha Mukhopadhyay is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. His research interests are in infrastructure, urban development and comparison of service delivery in India and China.  biography

Niranjana Ramesh is a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University London. She is interested in the lives lived around waters and other natures on the urban-rural spectrum of the Coromandel Coast. biography

Rahul Sharma is a director at Indus Action. His research focuses on public institutions and organizations and welfare delivery. biography

Aditya Valiathan Pillai is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative, New Delhi. He is a researcher focused on the governance dimensions of adapting to climate change. biography

Neha Sami is a professor at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Her research focuses on the governance of infrastructure, especially mega-infrastructure in the context of post-liberalisation urban India. biography

Siddharth Menon is an Assistant Professor of Urban Environmental Geography at the London School of Economics. He uses geographical political-economic frameworks to examine two broad research areas: Urban environmental change and urban ecologies in global South cities, and transnational economic and cultural connections between global South regions. biography

Aditya Ramesh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. His  work revolves largely around environmental history, agrarian history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine in South Asia. biography

Vishwanath S is part of Biome Environmental Trust and a Visiting Faculty at Azim Premji University. He is a Civil Engineer and Urban Planner with 40 years of experience primarily in the water sector. biography

Aysha Jennath is a professor at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. She is a climate mobility researcher with a background in urban planning and architecture. Her research interest lies at the intersection of climate change and human adaptive behaviour. biography

Dr Mukta Naik is an architect and urban planner with over two decades of experience working on housing, migration, livelihoods, and urban governance in reputed Indian think tanks like the Centre for Policy Research and the National Institute of Urban Affairs. biography

Sumitra Nair is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Ashoka University. Her research focuses on coastal monsoon cities in the context of climate change. She also works at the intersections of qualitative research methods, science studies, design studies, and aesthetics.

Carol Upadhya is an honorary visiting professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore. She has researched and published widely on a range of social transformations related to development, economic change, urbanization, provincial capital, labour and migration in contemporary India. biography