Dr. Archana Patankar is a Consultant, Researcher and Practitioner with substantial National and International experience in the field of Climate Change, Health and Environment. She is currently associated with the National Skill Development Corporation as a Senior Consultant Economist and working on data and demand-driven skilling and livelihood generation initiatives for vulnerable communities in rural areas and urban MSMEs. Archana brings over a rich experience of conceptualizing, operationalizing and leading policy and practice-oriented assignments across different verticals such as climate change vulnerability and adaptation, urban health issues, applied environmental economics and economics of the energy sector. She has worked with global institutions such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNEP-DTU Partnership, Oxford Policy Management and Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research as well as private sector organizations in India. Archana is regularly invited to national/international fora to contribute to the knowledge-building and policy dialogues and maintains continuous engagement with international and national institutions to bring about cross-border and comparative dimensions into the Policy/Practice arena for Global Climate Change and local/regional responses. She holds PhD in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and has taught Economics for more than a decade at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She recently completed her LLM in Energy and Environmental Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham.