Dhanasree Jayaram

Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram is an Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on Climate Politics and Security at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and an Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations (DGIR), and Co-coordinator, Centre for Climate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India. At DGIR, she teaches environmental security, International Relations theory, and critical geopolitics, among other topics. She is also a Research Fellow, Earth System Governance; Member, Climate Security Expert Network; Research Fellow, Centre for Public Policy Research; and Member, Planet Politics Institute.

Jayaram holds a PhD in Geopolitics and International Relations from MAHE. She was a Research Fellow at Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) and Guest Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin – under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Fellowship during March 2022- August 2023. During this period, she conducted research mainly on locating gender in climate diplomacy with a focus on India, Germany, and the European Union (EU). She also pursued a visiting fellowship (Erasmus Mundus – short-term PhD) at Leiden University, the Netherlands during 2014-15; and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship during 2018-19. As a part of her postdoctoral fellowship, she researched the climate diplomacy of emerging economies with a focus on the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) during 2009-19.

Jayaram managed a project of adelphi (Berlin) on “Climate Diplomacy”, sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office during 2015-20, for which she contributed analyses and organized workshops/seminars on climate change and security and climate change cooperation in South Asia, and India’s regional and global climate diplomacy. 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). She has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals including International Politics, Nature Sustainability, Futures, Contemporary South Asia, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Carbon & Climate Review, and Earth System Governance.

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