Dr. Sreeja Jaiswal

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Education

• 2020 Ph.D. Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
• 2014 M.A., Development Studies, TISS, Mumbai. Awarded the Institute Gold Medal for the Best student in Development Studies, 2014; Best Student, First Year in Masters in Development Studies, 2013
• 2012 B.A. Economics (Hons), Jamshedpur Cooperative College (Kolhan University), Jamshedpur, India

Professional and Research Appointments

• March 2022  Humboldt International Climate Protection Postdoc Fellow, University of Heidelberg
• Aug 2021-Feb 2022 Senior Scientist, Climate Change Group at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
• Feb, 2020-Jul 2021 Project Supervisor, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai
• Jan 2017-Dec -Aug 2019 Co-Principal Investigator, TISS, Mumbai in Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact of Konkan Railway. Funder: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
• Apr 2019 Assistant Professor, Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, TISS, Mumbai
• 2015-2016 Research Assistant, TISS, Mumbai in “Equity and Differentiation in the Context of the 2015 Climate Agreement” commissioned by MoEFCC.
• May–Jun 2013 Research Intern, Centre for Policy Research(CPR), New Delhi. Interned with Dr Navroz Dubash.

Policy Engagement

• Member, Government of India Delegation to the Fifty-sixth session of the IPCC (IPCC-56) and WGIII AR Approval Plenary
• Member, Government of India Delegation, Fifty-fifth session of the IPCC (IPCC-55) and WGII AR6
• Contributor -India’s Third Biennial Update Report to the UNFCC

Professional Activities

• Reviewer for Journal of Political Ecology; Review of Agrarian Studies, Society and Natural Resources, Climate
• Member of the organizing team for TISS Annual Conference on Climate Change from 2015 to 2019
• Member of the organizing team for DST-TISS Workshop on “Developments in Climate Change and Sustainable Development; 11th – 23rd Nov, 2019 and "Socio-Economic and Political Developments in Climate Change
• Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies (TISS, Mumbai); 4th - 16th Jun, 2018 Action

Research Projects

• 2021 Cotton Resilience, Fairtrade UK.
• 2021 “Undertaking Four Assessments in Three States for use in Adaptation Fund Proposal”, World Food Programme
• 2021 Global Contextualization and Inter-Country Comparisons in India’s Third National Communication, MoEFCC-GEF-UNDP.
• 2020 Equity and CBDR-RC in the Paris Agreement- Implications for India.
• 2016 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Development Priority Window Grant (with T Jayaraman) Grant amount: 282,614 USD