DR ARUNABHA GHOSH is a public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, since 2010, he has led CEEW to the top ranks of Asia's policy research institutions (eight years in a row). He was part of conceptualising and designing the International Solar Alliance and co-founded the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN). In 2018, the UN Secretary-General nominated him to the UN Committee for Development Policy. In 2020, the Government of India appointed him Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020). He is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air, and a member of the international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative.

Arunabha advises international governments, industry, civil society and organisations, including India’s Prime Minister’s Office, ministries and state governments. He was invited by France as a Personnalité d’Avenir to advise on COP21 climate negotiations, and has advised extensively on HFC negotiations. He has served on the Executive Committee of the India-U.S. PACEsetter Fund, been a member of Track II dialogues with ten countries/regions, and was a member of the National Capital Region’s Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (2018-20).

Co-author/editor of four books, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York) and WTO (Geneva). He is the lead author of Jobs, Growth and Sustainability: A New Social Contract for India’s Recovery.