Ajita Tiwari Padhi in her role as the Senior Specialist-NbS and Resilience leads India Climate Collaborative’s sector work on Land use and resilience. She comes with over 17 years of experience in the climate change, sustainable development, policy and research space. Specifically, she has worked very closely on low carbon development and resilience building programs with CSOs, indigenous communities, think tanks and local governments across the country. Ajita has studied marine sciences and holds a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social sciences.