Visiting Fellow, Environmental Governance and Policy

Shibani Ghosh is a Visiting Fellow, Environmental Governance and Policy at SFC, and an Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India. She researches and writes on issues relating to environmental law, regulation, and governance. She has authored several articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on environmental issues. She has edited a volume titled 'Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts and Principles' (Orient Blackswan, 2019). As a practicing lawyer, Shibani appears in cases before the Supreme Court of India and the National Green Tribunal. She was associated with the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in various capacities for 13 years. From 2015 to 2023, she was a Fellow with the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment at CPR. She has also been a Sustainability Science Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (2014-2015). Shibani studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and obtained two graduate degrees – a Bachelor of Civil Law and a Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management. Her undergraduate degree in law (B.A. LL.B.) is from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.