India's Climate Change Preparedness and Energy Transition Pathways
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This hybrid event will take place in 105 Holdsworth Hall and on Zoom.
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza is the Founder and president of Mantraya Institute for Strategic Studies (MISS), an independent research forum that seeks to make constructive contributions in the realm of strategy, innovations, and alternatives. She is also a visiting faculty at the Naval War College, Goa; a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.; a Research Fellow at WeltTrends-Institut für Internationale Politik, Potsdam; an International Advisor at the Nordic Counter Terrorism Network, Helsinki; Member, Board of Studies, School of International & Area Studies, Goa University; Editorial board member of Small Wars & Insurgencies (Routledge: UK); and an Adviser for Independent Conflict Research and Analysis, London. In a career spanning over two decades, she has conducted extensive field research in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Africa, and Australia.
Dr. D’Souza’s research interests and expertise include Politics of aid, development, gender and security in Afghanistan; Climate change, energy and human security; Women, peace and conflict resolution; Countering terrorism, insurgencies and violent extremism; Geopolitical trends and analysis in Asia; Non-traditional security threats and crisis response in Asia; India’s foreign, maritime and security policy. She has been a recipient of the Fulbright Junior Research Fellowship (2005-06) and the President’s Award for Excellence in Research (2009) from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.
Dr. D’Souza has been a Founding Professor, at the Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad (2021-2022); Visiting Fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany (2022); Board Director at Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo (2018-2022); Visiting Research Associate at the School of Business & Governance, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (2017); Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore ( 2010-14); Associate Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses, New Delhi (2006-10); Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Research Associate at South Asia Studies, The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC (2005-06). She has worked with governmental and non-governmental sectors for more than a decade and conducted field-based studies in various provinces of Afghanistan.
She has been widely published in national and international journals, newspapers, policy forums, and edited books, receiving attention from academics and practitioners, and informing public debate and discourse. Among her most recent published work are edited books titled Countering Insurgencies and Violent Extremism in South and South East Asia (Cass Military Studies, Routledge: UK), Afghanistan in Transition: Beyond 2014?, co-edited books, Perspectives on South Asian Security and Saving Afghanistan. She has contributed chapters to edited books, journals, encyclopedias, yearbooks, regional surveys, and op-eds in the media.
Dr. D’Souza has been interviewed and cited by various media outlets and her writings on India and South Asia have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Strait Times (Singapore), The National Interest, The Diplomat, Indian Express, Business Standard (India), The Business Times (Singapore), among others. She has presented academic and policy papers in various national and international forums.
As the Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair in Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she will be teaching and conducting research on Global Climate Change and Geopolitics of Energy and prospect for cooperation between India and U.S. in addressing issues of climate change, mitigation, and crisis management.