Dr Shailly Kedia is a multidisciplinary research professional who is a Senior Fellow and Associate Director with the Centre for Sustainable Development Research and Leadership at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. Dr Kedia has over 17 years of experience in policy research, outreach, and capacity building. Her core research interests include mainstreaming sustainable development, green budgeting, sustainable consumption and production, interfaces with climate policy, international organizations, traditional and non-traditional security issues. She also curates TERI’s flagship initiative - the World Sustainable Development Summit. In the past, Dr Kedia has worked with the Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank in Washington, DC, and with the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Dr Kedia is a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from the National Institute of Technology, Surat, and Master of Business Administration (Finance) from University of Stirling, Scotland. She pursued a Post-baccalaureate Elective from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and has a doctoral degree in International Organization from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She recently completed an Executive Leadership Development Program at the Harvard Business School. She has published in Global Environmental Change, Maritime Affairs, Millennial Asia, and Advances in Climate Change Research.

Publications:

Anand, M., R. Pandey and S. Kedia (2023), “Mission-Oriented Innovation Systems in the Climate Change Context: The Case of Agriculture and Renewable Energy Sector in India”, in S. Mehta and B.S. Shergill, Innovation Systems, Economic Development and Public Policy, pp. 352-370, Oxon and New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-1.032-26605-3, DOI: 10.4324/9781003353904-21.

Kedia, S. and K. Narula (2022), “Oceans and Seas for Sustainable Development: The Challenges of Global Environmental Change for SDG14”, In Paul G. Harris (ed), Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change, Oxon and New York: Routledge, pp. 286-298, https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Marine-Governance-and-Global-Environmental-Change/Harris/p/book/9781138555914.

Kedia, S. and N. Cholayil (2022), “Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development in India”, In: Jadhav, P and R.N. Choudhury (eds), Infrastructure Planning and Management in India. Studies in Infrastructure and Control, pp. 129-144. Singapore: Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8837-9_7.

Sovacool, B.K., D.J. Hess, R. Cantoni, D. Lee, M.C. Brisbois, H.J. Walnum, R.F. Dale, B.J Rygg, M. Korsnes, A. Goswami, S. Kedia & S. Goel (2022), “Conflicted Transitions: Exploring the Actors, Tactics, and Outcomes of Social Opposition against Energy Infrastructure”, Global Environmental Change, 73 (2022), 102473, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102473.

Kedia, S. and M. Anand (2021), “Global Biodiversity Regime Complex and Sustainable Development Goals: Implications for India”, Asian Biotechnology Development Review, 23(2): 57-87.
Pachauri, A, N.P.M. Sevilla, S. Kedia, D. Pathak, K. Mittal, P. Magdalene A (2021), “COVID-19: A Wake-up Call to Protect Planetary Health”, Editor(s): A.L. Ramanathan, Chidambaram Sabarathinam, Francisco Arriola, M.V. Prasanna, Pankaj Kumar, M.P. Jonathan, Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19, Elsevier, 2021, Pages 3-16, ISBN 9780323855129, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85512-9.00017-6.

Kedia, S. and P. Gautam (2020), “Blue Economy Meets International Political Economy: The Emerging Picture”, Maritime Affairs, 16(2): 46−70, doi: 10.1080/09733159.2020.1845457.
Kedia, S., R. Pandey, and R. Sinha (2020), “Shaping Post COVID-19 Development Paradigm in India Some Imperatives for Greening Economic Recovery”, Millennial Asia, 11(3) 268–298, doi:10.1177/0976399620958509.

Schwarze, R., P.B Meyer, A. Markandya, S. Kedia, D. Maleki, M. Roman de Lara, T. Sudo, and S. Surminski (2018), "Economics, Finance, and the Private Sector", in Rosenzweig, C., W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, and S. Ali Ibrahim (eds.), Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, New York: Cambridge University Press, 225-254. ISBN: 978-1-316-60333-8 (paperback).

Kedia, S. (2016), “Approaches to Low Carbon Development in China and India”, Advances in Climate Change Research, 7(4): 213-221.