Dr. Himangana Gupta is an expert in climate change and biodiversity policy. She has worked on
climate adaptation, forestry, carbon markets, sustainability, and gender. She is Research Fellow and Academic Associate at UNU-IAS, Tokyo. Prior to this, she was Manager, World Resources Institute, India. From 2019-2021, she was a JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow. She also worked as Programme Officer, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, India from 2016-2019. She has seven co-edited books and more than 30 research publications. She is serving as Lead Author for the IPBES Nexus Assessment.