Senior Research Associate, Environmental Governance and Policy

Arunesh is a Senior Research Associate in the Environmental Governance and Policy team. His work focuses on researching air quality governance, and policies on electric mobility and climate change. He also works on understanding emergent environmental governance issues such as geo-engineering, and the interactions between aerosol emissions and climate change. His work is both informed and inspired by the complex interactions between environmental and developmental challenges. Previously, at the Centre for Policy Research, he studied the capacity and functioning of State Pollution Control Boards in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. He also worked at the Center for Science, Technology and Policy where he studied the electrification of public bus transportation in Bengaluru. He holds a Masters degree in Climate Change and Sustainability Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.