Aditi Mukherji

Dr Aditi Mukherji is a Principal Scientist- Climate Action at the International Livestock Research Institute since July 2025 and the lead of Livestock and Climate Solutions Hub. Before this, she was the Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform of the CGIAR. Earlier, she was a Principal Researcher at the International Water Management Institute based in India, and before that she led the Water and Air Theme at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal. Aditi is a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Technical Guidelines for Adaptation and Impacts in the AR7 cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her areas of specialization are climate change adaptation, natural resource management, groundwater governance, energy-irrigation nexus, and community management of resources.  She has worked in South Asia including the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, Nile basin and in Central Asia. She has published over 100 peer reviewed research papers, including four edited books. In 2012, she was awarded the Inaugural Norman Borlaug Field Award, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation and given by the World Food Prize Foundation, USA.  Aditi is a human geographer by training and has a PhD from Cambridge University, United Kingdom where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She has been widely quoted by the media, including New York Times, BBC, DW International,  CNN, Al Jazeera and various news outlets in South Asia.