RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

• Geopolitical Interactions and Enhancement of the Paris Agreement, Workshop organised by King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre in partnership with Clingendael International Energy Programme (The Hague 2019).
• Environmental NGOs: Global and Local Climate Action, Pre-COP Briefing for youth delegates of Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (Abu Dhabi 2018).
• Advancing Sustainable Consumption in the UAE, Gulf Research Meeting organised by the Gulf Research Centre, University of Cambridge (Cambridge 2017).
• Climate Change – Scientific and Physical Basis, Impacts and Response, Higher Colleges of Technology for Women (Sharjah 2017).
• The Significance of Environmental Statistics: Case Study of UAE’s Ecological Footprint, Regional Forum on Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics for GCC, organised by (then) National Bureau of Statistics, UAE, and United Nations Statistics Division (Abu Dhabi 2014).
• Climate and Security: Assessing Global Risks, Climate Change and Sustainability Training, organised under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation programme (New Delhi 2011).
• Emerging Powers’ Renewable Energy Governance: India, Workshop onInternational Governance for Renewable Energy, organised by Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and Technische Universität Darmstadt (Berlin 2012).
• India in Climate Diplomacy, Workshop on Climate Change Diplomacy: Perspectives for Regional and Global Agreements, organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Kuala Lumpur 2012).
• Supply and Demand for Oil and Natural Gas in China and India: Present and Future Outlook, Arab Energy Conference, organised by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (Doha 2010)
• Climate and Energy Challenges: Understanding Issues, Affecting Action, Workshop on Challenges of Emergent India: Role of NGOs, organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Puducherry 2010).
• Climate Change and the Maldives: Vulnerability, Impacts and Governance, Roundtable on Exploring the Contours of Democracy in Maldives, organised by WISCOMP (New Delhi 2010).
• Building a case for subregional energy cooperation in South and South-West Asia, Expert Group Meeting hosted by UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (New Delhi 2012).
• Recent Developments in Myanmar: Opportunities for Subregional Energy Cooperation, Workshop on Recent Developments in Myanmar: New Opportunities for Cooperation, jointly organised by Asian Development Bank and Centre for Policy Dialogue (Dhaka 2012).
• Energy Cooperation in South Asia: Towards Sustainable Energy Choices, Fifth South Asia Economic Summit (Islamabad 2012).
• Regional Cooperation for an Energy-Secure South Asia: Possibilities and Dividends, 11th Annual Sustainable Development Conference, organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Islamabad 2008).
• Global Social Justice and the Agricultural Trade Regime: Social Forces Within and Beyond the State, International Congress of the Asian International and Political Studies Association (New Delhi 2007).
• Media and Forced Displacement, Workshop on Forced Migration, organised by the Calcutta Research Group (Kolkata 2007).
• Gender and Peacebuilding: A Non-Traditional Security Lens, Workshop on Non-Traditional Security Issues in South Asia, organised by the University of Calcutta (Kolkata 2006).

PANELS

• Panelist, Climate-Positive Development of the Marine Environment: Opportunities and Challenges, EXPO Dubai event organised by Deltares at the Netherlands Pavilion (Dubai 2021).
• Panelist, Future Mobility: Staying on the Right Side of Disruption, World Future Energy Summit Mobility Forum organised by Masdar (Abu Dhabi 2019).
• Panel Moderator, Electric Vehicles – The Future of Clean Energy, at Dubai Solar Show organised by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dubai 2018).
• Panel Moderator, Sustainability Related Policy and Financial Trends Driving Economic Transformation at the Sustainability Leadership Conference organised by Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dubai 2018).

CONFERENCES & TRAININGS

• UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure led study tour on Energy Modelling and Long-term Policy Planning, under the bilateral UAE-Germany Energy Partnership (Berlin-Potsdam 2019).
• Training on Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Policies for Light Duty Vehicles, organised by Gulf Standardization Organization (Dubai 2017).  
• International Transport Forum’s 2016 Summit, organised by International Transport Forum, OECD (Leipzig 2016).
• Fuel Economy Accelerator Symposium, organised by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative and the Government of France (Paris 2014).
• Technical training on Ecological Footprint: Data and Methodology, organised by Global Footprint Network (Oakland 2014).
• Amongst two Indian nationals selected to participate in the East Asia Future Leaders Program on Energy Security organised by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan (Tokyo-Saitama-Ohita-Kumamoto-Osaka 2010).
• Expert Consultation on Climate Change and Coastal Zones, organised by the Henry L Stimson Centre and Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (Colombo 2009).
• Advisory Committee Meeting of the Calcutta Research Group’s Migration Course supported by UNHCR, Government of Finland and Brookings Institution (Shillong 2009).
• Summer Workshop on ‘Defence, Technology and Cooperative Security in South Asia,’ organised by the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (Marawila 2006).
• International Youth Leadership Conference on International Relations and Law, organised by the Civic Concepts International (Prague 2005). 
• Writers’ Workshop on Forced Displacement, organised by the Calcutta Research Group (Darjeeling 2003).
• The Second Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop – Transcending Conflict, organised by Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) (New Delhi 2003).
• Amongst 20 young Indians selected to participate in the ‘Initiative for Peace – Focus on Kashmir Conference’ held at the United World College of South East Asia (Singapore 2002).

MEDIA APPEARANCES

• Featured on The National’s Podcast, Beyond the Headlines: What more can we do to curb climate change? (2018).
• Featured on MBC’s pan-Arab TV news channel, Al Arabiya, for interview on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the UAE (2018).