Himanshu Shekhar — Associate Consultant

Dr. Shekhar works on enhancing the understanding of future risk and vulnerability trends and their impact on climate change adaptation practices in urban areas, with particular focus on bridging the science-policy gap. His work involves coordination with other UN agencies and relevant stakeholders and spans across multiple countries. His work covers issues including Leveraging Frontier Technologies for Adaptation, Digitalization and Participatory Climate Action, Wellbeing and QoL research, Urban/Regional Development and Policies, Disaster Management, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Sustainable Development. He has more than 12 years of work experience in climate risk and vulnerability assessment, urban planning and management, urban resilience, digitalization and science based policy making. He is a task team member of United Nations’ High Level Committee of Programmes for “UN wide coherence on sustainable urbanization” and expert group advising the Government of India on the scoping of IPCC AR7 Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. He is also the UNU focal point for inter UN group UN4NAP supporting NAP preparation and implementation across the globe.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Climate Change and Urban Planning expert with a focus on resilience and adaptation strategies.

Location: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Experience: 15 yrs