Dr Pushp Bajaj — National G20 Consultant UNDP, New Delhi — spoke on “Enhancing Climate Resilience of India’s Port Infrastructure and Operations” in Professional Session Three – “Building Coastal Resilience: The Way Ahead”, on Day Two of the Vice Admiral KK Nayyar Fellowship Conference 2023.

About the Speaker:

Dr Pushp Bajaj is currently working as a National Consultant on Blue Economy and G20 at UNDP in India. Previously, he was a Research Fellow and the Head of the Blue Economy and Climate Change Cluster at the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi, India. His research areas of interest include climate change impacts on India’s maritime and naval security, climate resilience of India’s critical maritime infrastructure, India’s domestic and foreign climate policies, sustainability in the maritime domain, and the Blue Economy. He was recently recognised as a Fellow of the 2021-22 Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship. Dr Bajaj has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and reputed digital and print news platforms and magazines on sustainable development, climate science, climate change mitigation and adaptation, climate policy, and related areas. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, USA, where he was a graduate researcher for the NSF-funded Center for Chemical Innovation – Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment based in San Diego, CA, USA. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Tamil Nadu, India, and St. Stephen’s College of the University of Delhi, India.