Director - Climate Change
GIZ India

Ashish specialises in climate change mitigation and adaptation, waste management, sustainable consumption and production, and environmental policy. His current focus is on policy and knowledge management aspects of climate change. During 2014-2016, Ashish worked as a Fellow in the Green Transformations Cluster of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and as a Senior Fellow with adelphi, a German think tank. From 2006-2014, he led the Policy for Environment and Climate component of the bilateral Indo-German Environment Programme. As a Senior Advisor with the Deutsche Gesellschaft Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, he advised the Indian Ministries and Departments at various levels of Government and implemented projects in the area of waste/resource management, climate change and economic instruments. Ashish has published extensively in books, journals and general interest magazines. He has also presented at various national and international conferences. A PhD in Economics from the University of California, Ashish's PhD thesis explored the role of influence activities on democratic policy making processes.