About

Dr Arunabha Ghosh is an international public policy expert, author, columnist, and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, and has led CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia's leading policy research institutions and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks. He played a formative role in creating the International Solar Alliance and was a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network. Co-author/editor of four books and with experience in 45 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva).  

Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society and international organisations around the world. He currently serves on Government of India’s G20 Finance  Track Advisory Group for India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. Most recently, the UN Secretary-General  appointed him to the High-level Expert Group on the Credibility and Accountability of Net-Zero  Announcements by Non-State Actors. In 2018, the UN Secretary-General nominated him to the UN  Committee for Development Policy, re-nominating him this year for a second term until December 2024.  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 has also been appointed the Co Chair of the T20 Task Force on climate and energy for Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in 2022. 

He is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air, a member of the  international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative, and serves on the Board of  ClimateWorks Foundation. A frequent speaker and adviser to governments, industry and international  organisations, he writes two monthly columns among other articles, has hosted or featured in several  documentaries, and his 2019 TED Talk on air quality (Mission 80-80-80) has crossed 250,000 views. He  holds a D.Phil. from Oxford.