Dr Arunabha Ghosh is an internationally recognised public policy expert, author, columnist, and institution builder. He is the founder and was CEO (2010-2026) of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, leading CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia's leading policy research institutions and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks. He played a formative role in creating the International Solar Alliance, and was a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network. Co-author/editor of five books and with more than two decades of experience across 54 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva). The Asia Society honoured him with the 2022 Asia Game Changer Award, for his and CEEW’s “incredible work, which is making a real difference for India and for the planet”.

Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society, and international organisations around the world. The Government of India appointed him to the Commission for Air Quality Management. The Government of Brazil appointed him as a Special Envoy for COP30 climate negotiations. He chairs the AI and Climate Expert Group for the 2026 AI Impact Summit. He also co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Energy Nexus (and previously co-chaired the GFC on Clean Air). He served on Government of India’s G20 Finance Track Advisory Group and advised the Sherpa Track for India’s G20 Presidency in 2022-23. In 2022, the UN Secretary-General appointed him to the High-level Expert Group on the Credibility and Accountability of Net-Zero Announcements by Non-State Actors. In 2020, the Government of India appointed him Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020).

Dr Ghosh has been a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy since 2019 (nominated by the UN Secretary-General; Vice-Chair 2023-25). He co-convened the Our Common Air Commission. He has been a member of several international expert advisory groups: Global Commission on the Economics of Water; High-Level Group of Economists, constituted by the French president for the One Planet Lab; Senior Consultative Group for the Energy Transition Accelerator; High-Level Panel on the Environment of Peace. He sits on the Oversight Committee of the Exploring Climate Cooling Options programme of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

He writes monthly columns across various platforms. A frequent speaker, he has hosted or featured in several documentaries, and his 2019 TED Talk on air quality (Mission 80-80-80) has crossed 280,000 views. He was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader, and fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and topped Economics from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.