Anjal Prakash is an Clinical Associate Professor (Research) and Research Director at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy (BIPP), at the Indian School of Business (ISB). An experienced researcher and academic, Professor Prakash’s work primarily focuses on water and climate change, urban resilience, and gender and social inclusion issues in South Asia.

Professor Prakash has worked in various capacities across different organisations in his field, including as Associate Professor at TERI School of Advanced Studies, and as the Coordinator of the Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research programme on glacier- and snowpack-dependent river basins at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal. He has also been actively involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where he served as Coordinating Lead Author for the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), published in 2019, and as Lead Author in working group II of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report.

Professor Prakash holds a Master's degree in Social Work (Urban and Rural Community Development) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India (1997), and a Doctorate in Social and Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands (2005). He has authored several books on water resource policies, gender issues, and peri-urban water security, and has co-edited several journal issues on related topics. Professor Prakash serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Environment and Urbanization Asia, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Springer Nature’s SN Business and Economics and PLOS Climate. He is Associate Editor of Current Research in Environmental Sustainability and Nature’s Urban Sustainability.