Dr Arunabha Ghosh is an internationally recognised public policy expert, author, columnist, and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, one of the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks. Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society, and international organisations around the world. Co-author/editor of four books and with experience in 53 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva).

He co-chairs the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Energy Nexus (and previously co-chaired the GFC on Clean Air). He served on the Government of India’s G20 Finance Track Advisory Group and advised the Sherpa Track for India’s G20 Presidency in 2022-23. In 2022, the UN Secretary-General appointed him to the High-level Expert Group on the Credibility and Accountability of Net-Zero Announcements by Non-State Actors. In 2020, the Government of India appointed him Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020). He played a formative role in creating the International Solar Alliance. He was a WEF Young Global Leader (2013).

Dr Ghosh is currently Vice-Chair of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and is a member of several international expert advisory groups: Global Commission on the Economics of Water; High-Level Group of Economists, constituted by the French president for the One Planet Lab; and the Senior Consultative Group for the U.S. Department of State’s Energy Transition Accelerator. He co-convened the Our Common Air Commission. He sits on the Oversight Committee of the Exploring Climate Cooling Options programme of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

The Asia Society honoured him with the 2022 Asia Game Changer Award, for his and CEEW’s “incredible work, which is making a real difference for India and for the planet”.

Dr Ghosh has a D.Phil. and M.Phil. from Oxford, a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, and topped Economics (Hons.) at St Stephen's College, Delhi.