Prof. Nidhi Nagabhatla is Senior Research Fellow and Cluster Coordinator: Climate Change and Natural Resources program at United Nations University ( CRIS) . She is Sustainability Science Specialist and System Analyst. With >23 years of work experience, she has led, coordinated, and implemented transdisciplinary projects in various geographical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Americas working with international organizations, viz., IWMI, World Fish Centre, IUCN, Asia Pacific Climate Centre, and United Nations University (INWEH) leading research and capacity development initiatives. She is also affiliated with leading academic institutes: Oxford University (UK) and Leibniz University (Germany) in various roles, mostly related to sustainability research, science-policy interfacing, and mentoring young professionals. She is Adjunct Professor at the School of Earth, Environment & Society McMaster University, Canada, and Guest Professor at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia. She served as Chair of The Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (UNEP) and co-leads the ‘Water and Migration Working Group’ of The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. She also served on the Technical Committee of The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from 2013 to 2018 and was Lead Author in the Global Assessment Report. She also served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Steering Board for Young Professional Platform for Agriculture Research and Development (YPARD), FAO from 2011 to 2018. Currently, she is actively involved with three expert working committees of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). She holds a doctoral degree from the Indian Space Research Organization in Environmental Science, post-doctoral experience working Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and a diploma in International Humanitarian Law from The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, India. She holds executive education from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she affiliates as a Chevening Fellow with the Future Leaders Programme of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK. She has published more than 200 papers as peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, conference papers, workshop contributions, and policy briefs and serves on the editorial and review committee of numerous international journals.
Prof. Yusuf Mehta is Professor in Department of Civil Engineering of Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering and has extensive experience in pavement systems and management. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999 and M.S. in Civil Engineering from The Oklahoma University in 1995. He is registered Professional Engineer in New Jersey. He has publications in refereed journals and international conferences. He has managed multiple projects of New Jersey Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration USDOT, and New York State Department of Transportation. He received Aviation Research Award and New Jersey DOT Research Implementation Award in the year 2012. He was recognized for his exemplary teaching by Mid-Atlantic American Society of Engineering Education in 2008. He received Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Engineering Education Award in 2013 for outstanding record of achievement in transportation engineering research, and undergraduate and graduate engineering education. He is Associate Editor of American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Transportation Engineering. He is part of Editorial Board, Modern Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research (MTTER). He is Member of American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation Research Board, American Society for Engineering Education, and Association of Asphalt Paving Technologist.
Dr. Brijesh KumarYadav is Head of Hydrology Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in collaboration with UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands. He holds several memberships in established bodies of hydrology, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS); International Society for Porous Media (INTERPORE); American Geophysical Union (AGU); International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH), Indian Association of Water Resources Society (IWRS), and Association of Global Groundwater Scientists (AGGS). He was awarded Ramanujan Fellow by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is Chief Editor of quarterly E-journal of Association of Global Groundwater Scientists (AGGS) ‘Journal of Ground Water Research (JGWR)’ since 2021. He is Editor of several renowned journals. He has guided number of Ph.D. scholars. He is Active Researche
