Dr. Aditya V. Bahadur is the Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. Previously he was at the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK where he was Principal Researcher and Chair of the Research Strategy Team. Before this he has held senior positions with Oxford Policy Management, the Overseas Development Institute and Hyderus Cyf. He has published widely on disaster risk management, climate resilience, transformation and sustainable urbanisation, ncluding in top tier academic journals and has contributed to the IPCC sixth assessment report (WG2). His book 'Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South' was published by Routledge in 2022.
He has an MA and PhD from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK and completed a postdoctoral programme as a Fulbright Fellow at the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies at Columbia University, USA. He is permanently based in Delhi, India.