Aparna Roy

Aparna Roy is a Fellow and Lead Climate Change and Energy at the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy (CNED). Aparna's primary research focus is on the politics of climate change resilience building and environmental governance. Her work aims to generate critical insights on the contested science and risk of climate change impacts on sustainable development goals (SGDs) in the global south, probe the effectiveness of building the resilience of the development sectors and explore the future of resilience in an increasingly climate-constrained world.

Aparna was the Coordinator of G20 India’s Think 20 (T20) Secretariat’s Task Force on Refuelling Growth: Clean Energy and Green Transitions.

Aparna is a guest teacher at the Charité University, Berlin where she teaches an advance module on interactions between climate change and social determinants on health.

She is a Member of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India's Consortium on 'Economic Analysis of Air Pollution Policy and Regulation Unit.' The unit has been set up to design an effective framework to mitigate air pollution and its impact in the country.

Her opinion pieces and columns are extensively published via international and national platforms such as the Financial Express, Times of India, Hindustan Times, and The Hindu. She appears regularly on public debates on issues of climate change and development across various international broadcast channels including, BBC, India Today, Sputnik News and Doordarshan.

Aparna holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science Honours and Masters degrees in Sociology and International Development, respectively. She was a Commonwealth scholar at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.