Bio
Veena Srinivasan is currently a Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru, an academic think-tank. Her research interests include inter-sectoral water allocation and impacts of urbanization on water resources. Veena received her PhD from Stanford University’s Emmet Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources.
After her PhD, Veena stayed on as a post-doctoral fellow to help found a Freshwater Initiative at Stanford. Her dissertation and post-doctoral work resulted in a number of journal articles in Water Resources Research, Water International and Global Environmental Change.
Originally from Bombay, Veena has an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an M.A in Energy and Environmental Analyses from Boston University.