Experience

World Resources Institute

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Manager- Nature Crime Alliance

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Providing strategic and operational support to the Nature Crime Alliance, which aims to halt criminal activities that exploit and degrade natural resources and ecosystems worldwide. Providing strategic and operational support to the Nature Crime Alliance, which aims to halt criminal activities that exploit and degrade natural resources and ecosystems worldwide.



Coventry University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager RECOMS.EU

  • May 2021 - Jan 2023

  RECOMS is a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission. It is comprised of a transdisciplinary consortium of scientists, practitioners and change agents from eleven public, private and non-profit organisations located in six European Union countries.

• Research Delivery Support Officer: Centre for Agroecology, Water&Resilience

  • Dec 2021 - Dec 2022

  I provide support to a portfolio of EU, H2020-funded projects in the field of agroecology, building ecological and socially sustainable food systems. I am passionate about setting up interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral exchange programs.

• Research Delivery Support Assistant: Institute for Future Transport & Cities

  • Aug 2018 - May 2021

  A Prince 2-certified Project Manager, providing day-to-day support to academic projects. Including supporting project initiation by compiling project work package data and establishing the necessary resource requirements to execute the project in a timely manner in line with deadlines. Liaising with consortium partners and sub-contractors to ensure work package scheduling is in place, that key milestones are met and that deliverables are achieved to the desired standard



West Midlands Combined Universities

• Higher Education

• Project Coordinator- Energy and Food Poverty Research Hub

  • Jul 2019 - May 2021

  A collaborative, trans-disciplinary, cross-institutional, system level research and social innovation Hub. Established to drive social protection fit for the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 in the West Midlands Combine Authority area. Focused on Food and Energy Poverty challenges at local level, backed by the WMCA institutes ,the Hub aims to have local impact and national influence. ​ ​ A collaborative, trans-disciplinary, cross-institutional, system level research and social innovation Hub. Established to drive social protection fit for the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 in the West Midlands Combine Authority area. Focused on Food and Energy Poverty challenges at local level, backed by the WMCA institutes ,the Hub aims to have local impact and national influence. ​ ​



The University of Edinburgh

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Candidate

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2019

  Conducting independent research centered on the issues of food security, access to food, access to seed, seed sovereignty, nutrition. I also research on agrarian alternatives and rural livelihoods. I have gained applied experience in designing implementing and monitoring interventions targeted at capacity development, local participation and governance of natural resources in association with several NGOs in India. My key research interests are on Intellectual Property Rights over bio-resources such as seeds; access to seeds; seed-exchange networks; sustainable models for benefit sharing; technology transfer to rural areas and natural resource management. I have strong skills in qualitative data collection, analysis, evaluation and reporting of data. As a researcher, I have conducted baseline studies on seed conservation and food security and have presented the results at different forums: conferences and workshops.



Changing Farming Lives in South India, Past and Present

• Open University, Milton Keynes

• Project and Impact Co-Ordinator

  • Nov 2017 - Apr 2019

  The project explores the potential of Arts and Humanities approaches, in particular aspects of history, film and sound, to document and support small farmer creativity in developing resilience to livelihood challenges in relation to food, biodiversity, and climate issues. The project brings together together academics from a variety of disciplines, smallholding farming communities in south India, and NGOs working on agricultural and environmental issues, building a network to bring historical perspectives into present-day climate science debates and to explore experiences of vulnerability and resilience as long-term processes, produced by a range of societal phenomena beyond simply climate disturbances.



PARFS- Participatory Action Research on Food Sustainability

• University of Edinburgh

• Research Assistant

  • Feb 2016 - Sep 2017

  This project seeks to support the embedding of Learning for Sustainability in the curriculum, and ultimately more widely in teaching (and research) culture at the University of Edinburgh, through a participatory action research project on a range of topics related to food sustainability, with the University of Edinburgh as the main site, and ultimately to plan and carry out an intervention aimed at improving sustainability around food on campus This project seeks to support the embedding of Learning for Sustainability in the curriculum, and ultimately more widely in teaching (and research) culture at the University of Edinburgh, through a participatory action research project on a range of topics related to food sustainability, with the University of Edinburgh as the main site, and ultimately to plan and carry out an intervention aimed at improving sustainability around food on campus



University of Edinburgh

• Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer

  • Sep 2015 - Aug 2017

  Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer for the undergraduate course on South Asian Studies 2a & 2b Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer for the undergraduate course on South Asian Studies 2a & 2b



Progressive Partnership

• Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Research Assistant & Field Interviewer

  • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  Research assistant and a field interviewer in social research. Working on project for government and academic institutions. Research assistant and a field interviewer in social research. Working on project for government and academic institutions.



BAIF Development Research Foundation

• India
• Non-profit Organizations
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Research Associate

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  A one year internship with the Maharshtra Institute of Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (MITTRA), part of BAIF-Development Research Foundation-a reputed voluntary organisation established in 1967 to promote sustainable livelihood in rural India. Projects, I have been involved in, focus on establishing networks and expertise for community-led efforts in conservation and revival of indigenous crop diversity in Jawhar- tribal block of Maharashtra, India. Responsibilities included: Capacity building of seed savers for participatory seed selection, production and exchange; Developing strategies for replication and implementation of the project in other areas; Documenting development of community-led crop germplasm conservation model; Collecting qualitative and quantitative data to map down the progress of the project; Authoring research papers on Seed sovereignty for Food Security and Livelihood Improvement in the context of a Changing Climate and Environment.



Gene Campaign

• New Delhi, India

• Intern

  • May 2012 - Jul 2012

  Internship with "Gene Campaign" an NGO working on food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Researching on agricultural biodiversity in relation to food security and nutrition. Internship with "Gene Campaign" an NGO working on food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Researching on agricultural biodiversity in relation to food security and nutrition.



C3i Solutions

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Desk Analyst Lvl. 1

  • Mar 2010 - Sep 2011

  Providing support service to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, clinics, medical professionals. Providing support service to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, clinics, medical professionals.