Anjana Rajagopalan

Manager - Climate Resilience Practice

Bio

Dr. Anjana Rajagopalan serves as the Manager within the Climate Resilience Practice program at WRI India. She is based in Chennai. Her work primarily revolves around strategies for building climate resilience, climate budgeting, and grassroots-level sustainable development.

Anjana’s career spans diverse domains, reflecting her commitment to multi-faceted development approaches. She has engaged in various areas, including Public Finance, Labour and Skill Development, Urbanization and Migration, and Environment and Health Economics. Her professional journey includes roles at institutions such as the NITI Aayog, University of Cologne, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), and the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy.

Educationally, Anjana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (with honors) from Delhi University. She pursued her Master’s in Economics with a specialization in Environmental and Resource Economics at TERI SAS, New Delhi. Her MPhil research centered around Urbanization, and she later completed her Ph.D. in Development and Labour Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

In her leisure time, Anjana enjoys reading, baking, and listening to classical music.

Blogs

Breaking Barriers for Women-led Green Enterprises in India
by Bhawna Ahuja, Ananya Chakraborty, Harpreet Bhullar and Anjana Rajagopalan - November 20, 2024
In August 2024, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India appreciated the efforts made by econsciousTM – a waste recycling start-up based out of New Delhi – in his ‘Mann ki Baat’ address. Co-founded by Sonal Shukla during the Covid-19 pandemic, econscious turns plastic waste into furniture and is a prime example of a green enterprise that produces eco-friendly products. Less known are the efforts of Mamta Devi and her venture, Didi ke Papad. Together with her group of 11 JEEViKA didis (Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society self-help group members), they use a solar-powered machine to make papad – a traditional Indian snack – and sell them in the largely rural Begusarai district of Bihar.
Indian MSMEs Need to Embrace Climate Adaptation for Survival
by Bhawna Ahuja, Ananya Chakraborty, Anjana Rajagopalan and Vivek Venkataramani - July 01, 2024
Industries around the world are increasingly undertaking climate change mitigation by reducing the carbon footprint of their operations and supply chains. However, many climate change impacts are inevitable and add to the vulnerability of industries, especially Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). MSMEs contribute

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