Dr Aditi Mukherji
Principal Scientist – Climate Action in the Livestock, Climate and Environment Program of the International Livestock Research Institute
Dr Aditi Mukherji is Principal Scientist – Climate Action in the Livestock, Climate and Environment Program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) , effective 1 July 2025. Before joining ILRI, Aditi was the Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform of the CGIAR and was hosted by ILRI in Nairobi. She has also been a Principal Researcher at the International Water Management Institute based in India and Sri Lanka, and before that she led the Water and Air Theme at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and was based in Nepal. Aditi was a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Water Chapter in the Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in February 2022, and was a member, Core Writing Team of the IPCC’s AR6 Synthesis Report which was published in March 2023. She is a currently a member of the Earth Commission where she is working with global experts on quantifying safe and just planetary boundaries. Her areas of specialization are climate change adaptation, agricultural resilience for small holder producers, climate governance, water-energy nexus and community governance of natural resources. She has worked in South Asia including the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, Nile basin and in Central Asia. She has published over 80 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.