Aditya is Chair of the Research Strategy team and Principal Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK . He has 18 years of experience in research, evaluation and practice of climate change and development. He has published extensively on these issues and his work has been cited widely, including by the IPCC. Previously he worked with the UK funded Action on Climate Today Programme based at Oxford Policy Management and with the Overseas Development Institute, UK as Research Fellow. He has an MA and a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He completed his Postdoctoral Research at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York City and is the author of ‘Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South’ (Routledge, 2022).