Team - Phase-I

Poulomi holds a PhD on watershed management from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior joining to SaciWATERS she was working as a researcher in water resource and policy division (WRPM) of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She has been working in the field of water supply and sanitation, natural resource management, climate change, agriculture, governance and policy issues for the past seven years . She has proficiency in handling both research and implementation related projects and associated with various national forums and societies. She looks into the peri urban and the study of disappearing lakes projects as a senior Fellow.

Anamika is an Ecological Economist, presently working as an Assistant Professor in IndianInstitute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, in India. She has done MA in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India and PhD in Economics from the University of Leeds, UK. Her PhD focused on an empirical assessment of inter-state disparity of water pollution in India taking all the eleven major rivers of the country. Dr.Barua’s work focuses on interdisciplinary issues from both the natural and social sciences to understand environmental change and livelihood dynamics. She has recently completed a project in collaboration with researchers from University of Leeds, UK, in a project focusing on ‘Developing a Measure for Inequitable Household Access to Water in Urban India’, funded by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and European Union (EU). She is also working on a project to assess social vulnerability to climate change and the livelihood dynamics in the Eastern Himalayan Region. The project has been funded by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). Before joining IITG, Dr.Baruaworked at ‘The Energy and Resources Institute’ (TERI), in New Delhi till 2010. She has published widely in leading international journals, book chapters, working papers, book reviews, newspaper articles and policy reports.

Prof. Khan works at the IWFM, BUET and served as its Director in 2008-2010. Prof. Khan holds BSc in Civil Engineering from BUET and MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Rhode Island, USA. He obtained PhD in Coastal Engineering from Drexel University, USA. Prof. Khan teaches postgraduate courses on Urban Water Management, Coastal Zone Management and Interdisciplinary Field Research Methodology at IWFM. He has supervised several MSc theses on urban water management and wastewater reuse in peri-urban areas. Prof. Khan is leading the IDRC funded Periurban water security project in Bangladesh. He has a number of papers published in journals to his credit, and has contributed to several books focusing on urban water supply, flooding and water quality. He has also taken on consultancy jobs at various points in his career for public and private enterprises.

Anjal is the Executive Director at SaciWATERs, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies based at Hyderabad in Southern India. He is also the Project Director of ‘Water Security in Peri-Urban South Asia’, a project funded by IDRC. He has worked extensively on the issues of groundwater management, gender, natural resource management, and water supply and sanitation. Having advance degree from Tata Institute and Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India and PhD in Social Sciences from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Dr. Prakash have been working in the area of policy research, advocacy, capacity building, knowledge development, networking and implementation of large scale environmental development projects. Before joining SaciWATERs, Dr. Prakash worked with the policy team of WaterAid India, New Delhi, where he handled research and implementation of projects related to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Dr. Prakash is the author of The Dark Zone: GroundwaterIrrigation, Politics and Social Power in North Gujarat, published by Orient Longman. His recent edited books are - Interlacing water and health: case studies from South Asia (2012) by published by Sage and Water Resources Policies in South Asia (2013) published by Rutledge.

Prof. Salehin did his B.Sc in Civil Engineering and MSc in Water Resources Engineering from BUET, and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University in Illinois, U.S.A. Prof.Salehin has 18 years’ research and teaching experience at IWFM, BUET. He teaches postgraduate courses on Integrated Water Resources Management, Interdisciplinary Field Research Methodology in Water Management, Hydrogeology and Groundwater, and Groundwater Resource Assessment. His research activities are focused on interdisciplinary water resources management, socio-eco-technical approaches to water management, water resources systems modeling as a decision making tool for water resources management, eco-hydrology and eco-hydraulics, and coastal hydrogeology and groundwater. He also has a keen research interest in transboundary river water management issues. Prof.Salehin acted as the main resource person for numerous training programs on IWRM organized by BUET and other water sector institutions for water and environmental academicians of public and private universities, water professionals working in government and NGOs.

Karthik holds an M.Sc. in Disaster Management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Sir M.Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He has, in the past, studied Right to Water and Sanitation in flood contexts in Bihar. Karthik's areas of interest include water resources management in varying contexts and water conflicts with origins like trans-boundary control of resources, privatization of distribution systems etc.