Team - Phase-II

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.

Dr. Anamika is an Ecological Economist; she has a Master’s degree in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics and a Ph.D in Ecological Economics from the University Of Leeds, UK. Dr Anamika has been working as an Associate Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and at present she is on 2 years leave from IIT Guwahati. Her research is interdisciplinary and she uses theories and methods from both the natural and social sciences to understand environmental change and livelihood dynamics. Her core research to date has focused on assessing social vulnerability to climate change, its impact on water resources and the related livelihood dynamics in the Eastern Himalayan Region of India. She has published peer-reviewed articles in several leading international journals, as well as book chapters, working papers, newspaper articles and policy reports on environmental issues. She has collaborative projects with the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Leeds, UK which are funded by international organizations like the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She has also conducted studies for national and international organizations like the European Statistical Office (EUROSTAT), The International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN), and Wild life Trust of India (WTI) on issues related to environment and livelihood.

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 modelling 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 trans-boundary 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.

Dr. Aditya Bastola has a Ph.D in Women’s Studies from University of Pune. His research interests are on issues of gender, water, governance, climate change, health and migration. He has strong field experiences across rural communities in South Asia. Prior to joining SaciWATERs he was working with Women in Environment, Nepal. His proficiencies are in implementing and coordinating regional level studies, gender analysis and development of analytical model. He is also associated with several community-based organizations focused on gender rights.

Sumit Vij holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Development Practices from TERI University, and completed his bachelor’s in Chemistry from University of Delhi. He also holds a master’s degree in Development Management from Tata-Dhan Academy, a collaborative effort of Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) and DHAN Foundation. Before joining SaciWATERs, he worked as a consultant on the Living with Climate Change project with partners in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Canada. He was responsible for designing, planning, and the implementation of the project in semi-arid sites of India, the research methodology followed the socio-cognitive framework to capture community perceptions in the semi-arids. He also gained experience in project designing and coordination while working on the National Dairy Plan at the National Dairy Development Board, Ministry of Agriculture. His research interest lies in environmental governance and he brings special emphasises on sustainable development in the research through an integrated understanding on discourses of social, political, and environmental significance.

Safa Fanaian holds a master’s degree in Water Management from UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands and a MSc. in Ecology and Environmental Science from Pondicherry University. In the field of water management,she has worked extensively on issues such as transparency, accountability and participation within the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector, ecosystem based economic assessments of water systems, participatory irrigation management, and watershed monitoring and assessment.

She also has experience in coordinating networks and bringing together organizations in research and consultation on issues such as governance, gender equality, rethinking economics and science, religion and development. Throughout, she has lead multidisciplinary and multicultural teams in research, assisted in developing methodologies, data analysis, and conducted trainings, communications and capacity building.

Suchita has completed her M. Tech. in Applied Geology from Dr. H. S. Gour University, Sagar. She is having more than 8 years' research experience in the field of Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. In past, she has worked as a Researcher at Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, where she was engaged with the Coastal Vulnerability Mapping project along for the parts of Indian Coast. She was also associated with SOPPECOM, Pune for more than six years and has been involved in RS/GIS and hydrological aspects of the major studies done by SOPPECOM like post facto study of watershed development programs in Maharashtra, Characterization of wastelands for parts of Maharashtra, Multilayer Planning and Management of Water Resources in Bharar River Sub basin, Chattarpur District, Madhya Pradesh, and LiveDiverse- Sustainable Livelihoods and Biodiversity in Developing Countries.