Senior Research Associate

Veena Srinivasan is a Senior Research Associate with the International Communities and Water Initiative at the Pacific Institute. Her research interests include inter-sectoral water allocation, threats to global freshwater, and impacts of urbanization on water resources.  
Veena received her Ph.D from Stanford University’s Emmet Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Her research framework integrated both centralized and decentralized approaches to urban water supply in India. She has also worked on quantifying and modeling vulnerability of water use under environmental change. As a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford, Veena was instrumental in developing a framework for a Global Freshwater Initiative at Stanford, conducting a meta-analysis of interdisciplinary water case studies to trace patterns in the nature and causes of global water crises.

Prior to joining the Institute, Veena worked for several years in the consulting and non-profit sectors on energy, water, and forest policy issues in India. Veena has a Masters in Energy and Environmental Studies from Boston University and a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Veena has many peer-reviewed publications and has been a recipient of the Teresa Heinz Environmental Scholars Award and the National Science Talent Fellowship in India.