Dr. Shabana Khan

Dr Shabana Khan is the founder and director of the Indian Research Academy. She is the member of Global Young Academy where co-leads the group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. She is the World Social Science Fellow on Risk Interpretation and Action with International Social Science Council, and is the Vice-president of the Society, Madhursmriti, which is the Alumni Association of Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She is also a visiting faculty member at the Department of Environmental Planning at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.Dr. Khan is an active researcher and has more than 17 years of research experience in the field of disasters, climate change and other environmental risks. She moved to New Zealand in 2006 to complete her PhD thesis titled as ‘A Geographical Analysis of the Hazardscape of the Wellington Region: Influences on Intra-regional Response’ from the Victoria University of Wellington. Since then she has travelled across 11 countries and presented her research in 28 national and international conferences. She has also published a book from her PhD research along with 26 articles in international peer reviewed journals, books and reports. She has also reviewed research papers for 13 international peer reviewed journals on natural hazards, disasters, climate change, environment and sustainability. Her latest research include Uttarakhand disaster, water governance in Delhi and positioning young scientists working in the field of climate change and DRR. Dr. Khan has worked on various national and international research projects such as National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project with SEEDS Technical Consultancy and Chance2Sustain with University of Amsterdam. Her past work profile include working as an assistant professor at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, as a research fellow and visiting faculty at the School of Planning and architecture, as a research officer at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, as a researcher at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, as a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, and as a teaching assistant at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand