Ajmal Khan A.T. is a multidisciplinary scholar of environment, development, and climate change. His research examines the democratic and justice challenges arising from state-led development, environmental change, and anthropogenic climate change, with a focus on inequality, power, and justice in the Global South.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India. He was previously a Raghunathan Fellow at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. Before that, he was a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at SOAS, University of London. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India.
Ajmal is one of the conveners of the Environment and Climate Change Study Group of the Development Studies Association (DSA), UK, and a fellow of the Earth System Governance Project, based at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has contributed to the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) and has participated in the review of IPCC reports. His work also engages with policy and practice, and he has consulted with and advised governments, international and intergovernmental organisations, policymaking bodies, and research organisations on issues relating to climate change and development.
His research and reviews have been published in journals including South Asia Research, Economic and Political Weekly, Critical Asian Studies, International Area Studies Review, Engagement, Anthropology and Environment Society, Regional Environmental Change, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Environmental Politics, and Earth System Governance, among others. His public-facing writing has appeared in The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Wire, The India Forum, and The Ecologist.
He has been invited to speak at leading universities and research institutions, including Columbia University, the University of Oxford, Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge, among others.
