Environment Policy and Action Youth Fellowship | An Online International Summer School Program | A Two-Month Online Immersive Introductory Leadership Certificate Training Fellowship Program | May-July 2024 | IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning
Participants List & Details
| Participants list & Details | ||||||
| EPAYF Environment Policy and Action Youth Fellowship | ||||||
| An Online International Summer School Program | ||||||
| Consecutive Saturday afternoons & Special sessions on World Environment Day (June 5th, 2024) | ||||||
| May-July 2024 | Zoom | 3-5:30 pm | ||||||
| IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning | ||||||
| S.No | Name | Designation | Organisation | Occupation | Location | Research Title |
| 1 | Mohammad Hasan Ali | Advocate | Chittagong District Bar Association | Researcher | Mohora, Chandgaon, Chattogram, Bangladesh | Climate Change and Disaster Management, Bangladesh Perspective: An Empirical Study |
| 2 | ABHAY R MENON | Student | Marygiri English Medium School, Kannur | Student | Kannur | Illegal sand mining, waste disposal and impact on coastal communities |
| 3 | Deepannita Misra | Senior Research Associate | International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) | Researcher | New Delhi | Commons and Pastoral Livelihoods through practitioners’ lens: An exploration of key trends and challenges |
| 4 | Antariksha Chatterjee | Student | Jadavpur University | Student | Kolkata | Local cultural practices and ecological preservation |
| 5 | KETAN PAWAR | student | Tata Institute of Social Science | Student | Mumbai | Sowing in Uncertainty: The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Coastal Ratnagiri |
| 6 | Ankita Luharia | Senior VP | Raah Foundation | Working professional | Mumbai | Role of ESG in climate change mitigation |
| 7 | Debkanta Roy | Student of MSc Development Policy Planning and Practice | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Student | Tuljapur | Guardians of the Forest: Tribal Women and the Future of NTFPs Amid Climate Change |
| 8 | Megha Mahajan | Senior Executive | INDUS Environmental Services Private Limited | Working professional | Delhi | Call for a Climate Justice:Lessons from global Practices and Challenges in India |
| 9 | Niraj Bhatia | Sr. Associate, Projects and Outreach & Advocacy | Waste Warriors Society | Working professional | Dehradun | What does my plastic bag of chips have to do with climate Change? |
| 10 | Nishchint | Self Employed | Various architectural firms | Working professional | New Delhi | ESG dynamics in Ganga-Yamuna ecosystem in Prayagraj |
| 11 | Oceanika Bhatt | Design Manager | Al-Futtaim Group | Dubai | Rehabilitation of Narmada Valley flood victims in Dhar District | |
| 12 | Shraboni Dey | Fellow, Field Team for Lok Sabha Elections 2024, IPAC | Indian-PAC | Working professional | Midnapore | Green Energy Initiatives Steering towards an Ecological and Policy Sustainability for a Resilient Future |
| 13 | Tanisha upadhyay | No | No | Student | Badaun | Fast Fashion a Global Challenge |
| 14 | Darshan Jain | Student | IIT ISM Dhanbad | Student | Dhanbad | Climate Change and Inequality : How it affects different people in society |
| 15 | Mariya Sajan | Legal | Independent consultant | Corporate lawyer currently on a career break. | Kottayam | Asia’s only Below-Sea-Level-farming and its impact on the Biodiversity Loss of Region |
| 16 | Dhrushma Pandya | Anant school of climate action | Student | Ahmedabad | India | Marginalization of informal workers in the current climate policies: The need for more inclusive strategies |
| 17 | Anwesha Maharana | PhD student | KU Leuven, Belgium | Student | Leuven, Belgium | |
| 18 | Anushin Ray | B.Sc. (Hons) Environmental Science, Final year student. | The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda | Student | Howrah | |
| 19 | Aakanksha Sen | Student | – | Student | Hyderabad | |
| 20 | Akanksha Sengupta | Project Officer | Earthood Services Private limited | Faridabad | ||
| 21 | Dhanashree Kandalgaonkar | Student | Savitribai Phule Pune University | Student | Pune | |
| 22 | Dr Urba Malik | Assistant Professor | Islamic University of Science and Technology | Teaching Faculty | Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir | |
#IMPRI Center for Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development (CECCSD), New Delhi, invites you to #WebPolicyLearning
An Online International Summer School Program
A Two-Month Online Immersive Introductory Leadership Certificate Training Fellowship Program on
EPAYF Environment Policy and Action Youth Fellowship
Details of the #WebPolicyLearning:
Dates: May (18, 25); June (1, 5, 8, 15, 22, 29) & July 11, 2024
Consecutive Saturday afternoons & Special sessions on World Environment Day (June 5th, 2024)
Time: 3 – 5:30 p.m.
Platform: Zoom
Event Page & Details: https://www.impriindia.com/event/environment-policy-action-youth-fellowship/
Program Experts

Chair: Ms Bhargavi S Rao, Independent Researcher & Educator, Environment Activist, Bengaluru; Visiting Senior Fellow (Honorary), IMPRI
Experts
Mr Tikender Singh Panwar, Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh ; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI;
Dr Abi Tamim Vanak, Director of the Centre for Policy Design at ATREE
Mr Soumya Dutta, Co-Convener, South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), New Delhi; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI
Mr Debadityo Sinha, Senior Resident Fellow and Lead, Climate & Ecosystems team at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI
Dr Reazul Ahsan, Associate Professor, Urban Ecology Program, University of Utah Asia Campus, Incheon, South Korea
Prof Krishna Raj, Professor at Centre for Economic Studies and Policy, Institute for Social and economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India; Visiting Professor, IMPRI
Dr Parashram Jakappa Patil, Agricultural and Natural Resources Economist; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI
Dr Ram Boojh, CEO Möbius Foundation
Prof Anil K Gupta, Professor & Head, ECDRM; HoD, Director of Projects & Centre of Excellence & International Cooperation, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), New Delhi
Mr Himanshu Shekhar, Senior Editor (Political and Current Affairs), New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV India), New Delhi
Mr Ranjan Panda, Convenor, Water Initiatives Odisha
Ms Bhavreen Kandhari, Founder, Warrior Moms
Prof Shyamala Mani, Senior Advisor, WASH and Waste Management, Centre for Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI); Retd. Professor, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi; Visiting Professor, IMPRI
Dr Aditya Gusain, Principal Environmental Specialist, Environmental Management Centre, Mumbai
Ms Meena Vaidyanathan, Founder of Niiti Consulting
Prof Sas Biswas, Professor & Head, Department of Forestry of Dolphin, Post Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand; Visiting Professor (Honorary), IMPRI
Prof Vibhuti Patel, Visiting Distinguished Professor, IMPRI
Mr T K Arun, Senior Journalist and Columnist, New Delhi
Dr Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi
Mr Nityanand Jayaraman, member Vettiver Collective; writer and researcher based in Chennai
Ms Bhargavi S Rao, Independent Researcher & Educator, Environment Activist, Bengaluru; Visiting Senior Fellow (Honorary), IMPRI
Convenors
Dr Mansee Bal Bhargava, Entrepreneur, researcher, and educator, Eco-Development and Research cell, Ahmedabad; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI
Ms Suhasini Ayer, Principal Architect, Auroville Design Consultants; Visiting Senior Fellow (Honorary), IMPRI
Prof Utpal Kumar De, Professor of Economics at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India; Visiting Professor, IMPRI
Dr Simi Mehta, CEO & Editorial Director, IMPRI
Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, IMPRI
Inaugural Session Video:
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaQ2SfyP1WM
HQ: https://youtu.be/jR8xrwoc_Yw

Specimen Certificate
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– Understanding Recurring Heatwaves: Risk, Impact and the Way Forward for Resilience | July 2022
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