Vishal Narain

Gurugram

Vishal Narain is Professor, Public Policy and Governance, at the Management Development Institute Gurugram, India. His academic interests are in the inter-disciplinary analyses of public policy processes and institutions, water governance, peri-urban issues and vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change. He has published extensively on peri-urban issues, especially in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to water insecurity. He was a lead author for the chapter on human vulnerability to environmental change for GEO (Global Environment Outlook)-4, the flagship publication of UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme. He has completed consultancy assignments for a wide variety of international organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bangkok, The International Water Management Institute, IWMI, Colombo, The STEPS Center, University of Sussex, UK, The Asia Foundation, New Delhi and SaciWATERs, the South Asian Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Water Resources Studies, Secunderabad, India.