Dhanasree Jayaram

Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram is a Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, and Co-coordinator, Centre for Climate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India. She is also a Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Alliance; Member, Climate Security Expert Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy Research (India); Non-resident Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (India); and Associate, Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (Hiroshima University). She was a Research Fellow at Centre Marc Bloch and Guest Researcher at Freie Universität, Berlin – under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Fellowship in 2022-2023. She pursued a visiting fellowship (Erasmus Mundus) at Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2014-15; and a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship in 2018-19. Dhanasree's areas of research include environmental and climate security; climate diplomacy; environmental geopolitics in Southern Asia, Indo-Pacific, and polar regions; gender and climate governance; and geopolitical/security implications of solar geoengineering. She is the author of Breaking out of the Green House: Indian Leadership in Times of Environmental Change (2012) and Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies: India as a Case Study (2021).