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Arunabha Ghosh (born June 21, 1978) is an Indian public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a policy research institution based in New Delhi.^[1][2] He has held this position since 2010.

Under Ghosh’s leadership, CEEW has twice been named as India’s top climate change think tank in the International Centre for Climate Governance (ICCG) standardised rankings (in 2013 and 2014); it was ranked 2^nd in India and 20^th globally by the same organisation in 2016.^[3] In January 2021, the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked CEEW as South Asia’s top think tank with an annual operating budget of less than USD 5 million for the eighth consecutive year.^[4][5]

Ghosh’s work is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, drawing from the fields of international relations, global governance and human development.^[6] He advises governments, businesses, international organisations and civil society across the globe on a multitude of subjects, including climate governance, renewable energy, and international regime design.^[6] Ghosh helped create the International Solar Alliance, a 121-member intergovernmental organisation launched in 2015.^[7][8] He is a member of the United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy^[9], and a founding board member and Vice-President of the Indian industry body CLEAN (Clean Energy Access Network).^[10] In June 2021, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of ClimateWorks, a US-based climate philanthropy non-profit.^[11][12]

In 2018, the Indian news website ThePrint featured Ghosh in a list of “the next generation of Indian intellectuals”.^[13] He was nominated by strategic affairs expert C Raja Mohan, who said he had brought “deep technical knowledge and a lot of common sense to India’s ideologically-charged debates on climate change and resource use”.^[13] A 2019 TED talk in which Ghosh describes his vision for 80 Indian cities to reduce air pollution by 80% in the country’s 80th year of independence (2027) – an initiative called Mission 80-80-80 – has been viewed more than 240,000 times.^[14]

Ghosh was born in Kolkata, India. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College at the Delhi University; a Master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College at the University of Oxford; and a D.Phil. in international relations from Oxford.^[6] Between 2008 and 2010, he took part in the Global Leaders Fellowship Programme hosted by Oxford University and Princeton University.^[6][15]

Ghosh has wide-ranging expertise as a scholar and adviser to governments and international negotiations. His experience spans 45 countries and several international organisations, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Oxfam International.^[2][9]

As a Consultant, and later a Policy Specialist, at the UNDP between 2003 and 2006, Ghosh co-authored three Human Development Reports and hosted an MTV documentary on the global water crisis featuring American hip-hop artist Jay-Z.^[16][17] In 2008, he worked as a researcher at the WTO.^[16] He was an Associate at the University of Oxford’s Global Economic Governance Programme between 2003 and 2015, and a Faculty Associate at the university’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment between 2009 and 2013.^[6]

Ghosh was a member of the Executive Committee of the India-U.S. PACEsetter Fund and has taken part in Track II dialogues with ten countries or regions. ^[2] He formulated the Maharashtra-Guangdong Partnership on Sustainability.^[2] In 2015, the French government invited him to advise on the COP climate negotiations as a Personnalité d’Avenir, and he also advised on HFC negotiations under the Montreal Protocol.^{[18][19][20][21]} He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy between 2016 and 2018 and is currently Co-Chair of its Global Future Council on Clean Air.^[22] Between 2018 and 2020, he was a member of the Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority for India’s National Capital Region.^[23] He has been nominated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Committee for Development Policy, an advisory body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), for a three-year period (2019-2021).^[9][21][24] In 2020, he was made Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020).^[25] In June 2021, he was invited to join the Board of Directors of ClimateWorks, a San Francisco-based climate philanthropy non-profit.^[11]

Ghosh is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader, a Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and a member of the international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative.^[22][26][27] He was previously an Oxford-Princeton Global Leadership Fellow.^[6]

In 2010, Ghosh founded the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a leading Indian policy research institution using “data, integrated analysis and strategic outreach to explain – and change – the use, reuse and misuse of resources”.^[28] CEEW reports that it has “engaged in 278 research projects, published 212 peer-reviewed books, policy reports and papers, created 100+ new databases or improved access to data, advised governments around the world nearly 700 times, promoted bilateral and multilateral initiatives on 80+ occasions, and organised 350+ seminars and conferences”.^[29]

A widely published scholar, Ghosh is most recently the lead author of Jobs, Growth and Sustainability: A New Social Contract for India’s Recovery.^[30] He was a co-author of Climate Change: A Risk Assessment, a report commissioned by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.^[31] Ghosh is the co-author/editor of three books.

• Energising India: Towards a Resilient and Equitable Energy System. Sage, 2018. ISBN 9789385985249
• Human Development and Global Institutions: Evolution, Impact, Reform. Routledge, 2016. ISBN 9780415483605

• The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ISBN 9781137556301

Ghosh writes monthly columns in two Indian English dailies: Inflexion Points in the Financial Express and Over The Horizon in the Hindustan Times.^[32][33] A Nature essay that he co-authored in 2015, titled, “Rethink India’s Energy Strategy,” was chosen as one of the year’s 10 most influential essays.^[2][34]  His authored articles have been published in the Business Standard^[35], The Indian Express^[36], the Nikkei Asian Review^[37], The Hindu^[38], and The Times of India^[39], among others. Ghosh’s expert views have been cited by the New York Times^[40], the Financial Times^[41], the Economist^[42], Le Monde^[43], and the BBC^[44], among other respected publications. He is interviewed regularly by Al Jazeera^[45], CNBC TV18^[46], NDTV^[47], and India Today TV^[48], among other major networks. Besides hosting a documentary on water in Africa featuring Jay-Z, Ghosh appeared in the Emmy Award-winning series Years of Living Dangerously with David Letterman in an October 2016 episode on renewable energy resources.^[49][50]