Arunabha Ghosh is CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), an independent, policy think-tank in India. He is also an Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford; Faculty Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford; and Associate Fellow at the Governance of Clean Development Project at the University of East Anglia. He is involved with the UK Royal Society’s Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and has co-chaired its ‘international governance working group’. He is also a member of the India-US Track II Dialogue on Climate Change and Energy.

Dr Ghosh was previously Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton and at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford. He was also Policy Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

Arunabha’s interests intersect international relations, global governance and human development, including climate, energy, water, trade and conflict. He currently works on: climate governance (financing, technology R&D and innovation); geoengineering governance; trade-climate linkages; global energy governance; water governance; and international regime design. He recently led an international team to prepare a National Water Resources Framework Study for the Planning Commission of India. In June 2011 he delivered a keynote lecture to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on governing research on geoengineering technologies. His 2010 report, Harnessing the Power Shift: Governance options for international climate financing, assessed the full range of funding channels and institutions for climate finance. As co-author of UNDP’s Human Development Report 2006 – Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis, he focused particularly on how tensions over transboundary waters affected livelihoods. Arunabha has also been working on trade governance for several years and his doctoral thesis on the WTO’s monitoring system was nominated by Oxford for the Best Thesis Prize at the British International Studies Association. He is the co-author of two other global Human Development Reports and has led research on intellectual property, financial crises, development assistance, indigenous people, extremism and violent conflict.

Dr Ghosh has presented to the former President of India, briefed the Indian Parliament, the European Parliament, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and other legislatures, and trained ministers in Central Asia. He has hosted a documentary on the water crisis set out of Africa, Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life, recognised as an Official Honoree at the Webby Awards. His op-eds have appeared in the Business Standard, Financial Express, Indian Express, Mint, Seminar, and Tehelka. Dr Ghosh has delivered public lectures in several countries, and been interviewed by ABC (Australia), BBC, NDTV (India) and Voice of America, among other news outlets. He has also been consulted by DFID (UK), UK Ministry of Justice, IDRC (Canada), the Commonwealth Secretariat (London), Oxfam International, and Transparency International. He has served as Assistant Editor and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

Arunabha holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) and M.Phil. in international relations from Oxford, where he was the Clarendon Scholar and Marvin Bower Scholar. He holds an M.A. (First Class) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, as Radhakrishnan-Chevening Scholar. He graduated at the top of his class with a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. He lives in New Delhi, India and speaks English, Hindi, Bengali and basic Spanish.

He can be contacted at: arunabha.ghosh[AT]ceew.in; arunabhaghoshp[AT]gmail.com. Some of his publications are available at: http://ceew.in/publications.