Kriti Giri
Kriti Shree Giri is a research professional at Practical Action based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Kriti’s work focusses on climate resilience and disaster risk reduction. With a passion for addressing social issues, she has contributed significantly to various initiatives in climate resilience, education, and youth advocacy. Kriti holds an MPhil in Development Education from Kathmandu University, where she focused on interdisciplinary approaches to development challenges.
Mid-West University
We have collaborated with Mid-West University in Surkhet to run early career research workshops on climate adaptation finance.
Dharam Uprety
Dharam Uprety has a Ph.D. in Forestry and livelihood at the University of Natural Resources and Life sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria in 2006 and did a post-Doctorate Degree in Environmental Sciences at the Czech University of Life sciences in Prague, Czech Republic in 2008. Dr. Uprety has over 18 years of professional working experience in the field of climate change adaptation, early warning system, disaster risk management, and forestry both at the national and international organizations.
Rachel Harrington-Abrams
Climate change and planned relocation: Understanding decision-making processes for adaptation governance.
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelharringtonabrams/
Sushila Pandit
Sushila is a climate & resilience professional with over 14 years of experience in climate change, disaster risk management and building resilience. Her core area of expertise lies in the intersectional approach to vulnerability reduction & climate resilience, promoting indigenous & local knowledge, nature-based solutions, participatory approach for knowledge co-creation and integration of gender & social inclusion on the work she does. She is interested in working at the interface of policy-practice-research in and around locally-led adaptation, anticipatory action, knowledge, policy and governance.
Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushila-pandit-9a191b40/
Anu Jogesh
I am doctoral researcher with the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. My research interests include climate and financial risks, community vulnerability, and climate adaptation in South Asia. My doctoral thesis focuses on the construction and governance of physical climate risks by financial actors in India and how these risks are understood and experienced by financially and climatically precarious households in North India. I am a qualitative researcher with over 13 years’ experience focussed on the multi-level governance of climate change adaptation. My current research draws on studies in economic and human geography and hopes to deepen understandings of how physical climate risks are regulated and transferred between actors and scales in the Global South.
Contact: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/profile/anu-jogesh/
Angelica Johansson
Climate change impacts, loss and damage, knowledge politics, science-policy nexus
Contact info: https://liu.se/medarbetare/angjo03
Tanvi Deshpande
My research focuses on urban institutions, policymaking and climate governance in the Global South (India, Nepal and Kenya).
Contact me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanvi-v-deshpande-429a0971/
Matthias Taeger
My research explores how finance governs its relationship with the planet's climate through the production, dissemination, and application of knowledge. My PhD traced the construction of climate risk by central banks and financial elites as primary cognitive frame making climate change legible to finance. Currently, my research focuses on the development and use of climate-related metrics and tools in private finance. Conceptually, I’m particularly interested in how temporality and particularly futures are being imagined, deployed, and remade in these contexts. I’m drawing on and contributing to debates in economic sociology, science and technology studies, organization studies, and economic geography.
Contact me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-t%C3%A4ger-74728b15a/
Aishath Green
Aishath is based in London, UK and is Research Manager for Accountable Adaptation. She is coordinating the network so do get in touch with her if you’d like to join.
Susannah Fisher
Susannah Fisher is the Principal Investigator of Accountable Adaptation and a Principal Research Fellow at University College London. She works across research, policy and practice on adaptation policies, programmes and finance.
Jon Barnes
Jon is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the Accountable Adaptation research project. He is a critical human geographer of development focusing on the transformative potential of climate finance in social transitions. This has included research on public climate and development finance, insurance and debt instruments. Prior to joining UCL, he worked in research roles at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Biraj Adhikari
Biraj is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the Accountable Adaptation research project. His work has addressed the intricate connections between the political, ecological, and social factors that affect people, biodiversity and the planet at multiple scales. He hopes to continue developing himself as an interdisciplinary researcher, uncovering knowledge that can contribute towards solving Earth’s critical challenges including biodiversity loss and climate change.