Anjal Prakash Associate Professor and Associate Dean, The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) School of Advanced Studies, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Dr. Anjal Prakash is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at TERI-School of Advanced Studies (SAS), Hyderabad Campus. Before joining TERI- SAS, Dr. Prakash worked as the Programme Coordinator of Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research on Glacier and Snowpack Dependent River Basins at International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He has been nominated as coordinating lead author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). He has also been nominated as a Lead author in the chapter on Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure in the IPCC’s 6^th Assessment Report. Recently he was nominated as member of the Gender Task Group of IPCC to develop a framework of goals and actions to improve gender balance and address gender-related issues within the IPCC.

Before joining ICIMOD, Dr Prakash led the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs) as Executive Director. SaciWATERs is a south Asian thinktank that works in six countries of South Asia. His earlier associations were with WaterAid, New Delhi and VIKSAT, Ahmedabad, India. Dr. Prakash holds an advanced degree (1997) from Tata Institute and Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India and PhD (2005) in Social/Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, He is the author of The Dark Zone: Groundwater Irrigation, Politics and Social Power in North Gujarat (2005), published by Orient Longman. His other co-edited books are - Interlacing Water and Health: Case Studies from South Asia (2012) published by Sage and Water Resources Policies in South Asia (2013), Globalization of Water Governance in South Asia (2013), Informing Water Policies in South Asia (2014) published by Routledge, Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes: Lessons from India (2015), published by Sage and Periurban water security issues in South Asia (2016), published by Oxford University Press (2016).

Email: anjal.prakash@terisas.ac.in