Dr. Aditi Mukherji

Dr. Aditi Mukherji

Senior researcher at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), New Delhi

Aditi has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cambridge. She specializes in institutions and policies of water resources management and works on groundwater management, energy-irrigation nexus and management of public irrigation systems in South and Central Asia and in the Nile Basin.

She has edited two books and has published over 40 research papers in journals and edited books. She was the Associate editor of Hydrogeology Journal from 2005 till 2010 and regularly peer reviews articles for a number of other journals including World Development, Economic and Political Weekly, Agricultural Water Management, Irrigation Science, Journal of Environmental Management, American Journal of Water Resources, Energy Policy, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Ecological Economics etc.

Aditi is currently an executive committee member of the Permanent Consultative Committee on Groundwater set up by the GEF and FAO. In 2012, she received the inaugural Norman Borlaug award for Field Research and Application given by the World Food Prize Foundation. Her work has been widely covered by the media and she has been interviewed by all leading newspapers in India as well as by the BBC, Le Monde and National Geographic on issues related to irrigation and water resources management.