Blog Contributors

Romi Roy is an architect and urban designer and currently holds Senior Consulting positions with the Delhi Development Authority and the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, GNCTD.  She is a Member of the High Court Special Task Force on Urban Transportation and advises at the Local Area Planning Monitoring Committee with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. At the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Centre (UTTIPEC) established by the DDA, she provides policy and design support on Transit Oriented Development in Delhi. She has extensive international experience with public transit related projects and projects integrating urban design and planning strategies with infrastructure and resource management systems in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Mukul Sanwal has served in various policy positions in the Government of India and represented India as a principal negotiator at the UNCED, Agenda 21, Rio Declaration and the Climate Change Treaty. He joined the United Nations as a policy adviser to the Executive Director of the UNEP in 1993 and later moved in the same position to the UNFCCC Secretariat, where he served till 2007. He was closely associated with the organization of the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002). His current research interests center around governance of sustainable development, climate policy analysis, strategies for institutional reform in the UN, innovative means to support international cooperation, and the development of partnerships between governments, private sector and local communities for environmentally sustainable economic growth. He has published extensively on sustainable development, global environmental management and environmental law.

Sujit Patwardhan is the founder member and Trustee of Parisar, an NGO established in 1987 in Pune, with the objective of Environmental awareness, Education and Action. He is an environmental activist working in the area of Sustainable Urban Transport. He has contributed to Parisar

SUNITA NARAIN, Director General of CSE and editor of Down To Earth. Environmentalist, and an early watcher of global climate politics, co-authored ‘Global Warming In An Unequal World: A Case Of Environmental Colonialism.

Madhu Sarin, leading forest rights activist with an extensive understanding of issues relating to forests, tribal land rights, and forest governance.

PRADIP SAHA, editor at large of Down To Earth. Has keen interest in climate change and is very embarrassed, as he cannot make any sense of it.

AMBUJ SAGAR is the Vipula & Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His work focuses on S&T, environment and energy policies with a particular focus currently on climate and energy innovation policies

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Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE and the head of the industry and environment programme, crunches climate numbers and demystifies climate technologies.