Dr. Srestha Banerjee is the Director, Just Transition, at the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST), and environmental research and innovation institute based in Delhi, India. She leads the work of India Just Transition Centre (IJTC), an initiative of iFOREST. Her current areas of work include climate change and just transition, mining, natural resource benefit sharing, environmental justice and participatory governance.

Dr. Banerjee holds a PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy from the University of Delaware, and a Masters in Environmental Studies from Ohio University.

Over the past 12 years, she has worked with India and US-based environment and public policy think tanks. She has authored/co-authored several scholarly publications in her areas of work, and also engages in public outreach through her writings. The book, Just Transition in India: An inquiry into the challenges and opportunities for a post coal future, which she co-authored with her peer researchers, is the first on-ground study on just transition in context of India’s coal economy.

 
Dr. Banerjee has been advising policy institutions and government agencies at national and state levels on issues of mining, natural resource benefit sharing, participatory planning and governance. Presently she also serves as an Advisory Board member of Just Transition Initiative, a a partnership project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (US) and the Climate Investment Funds (World Bank).