User:MN234/Arunabha Ghosh

Arunabha Ghosh is Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton; Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford; and Faculty Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford. Arunabha currently works on the governance of the climate change regime. He has worked on technology development and transfer questions, focusing on the energy sector in large developing countries. Having investigated international governance arrangements for technology transfer, he is now researching market-based incentives to induce greater collaboration between developed and developing countries. Arunabha also works on the linkages between the trade and climate regimes and has written on the monitoring implications of enforcing climate rules using trade measures. He is now working on global energy governance, namely how trade and investment treaties regulate the energy sector. He is also interested in the evolving national-level institutional and regulatory structures in large developing countries, for the coordination of energy and climate policies. Further, he has been working on WTO and trade governance for several years, particularly on monitoring and compliance. Finally, Arunabha is currently developing a project to revise theories of global governance from the perspective of developing countries and the strategies employed by them in international regimes.

Arunabha was previously Policy Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and co-author of three Human Development Reports, and has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He has led research on transboundary water basins, intellectual property and the rights of indigenous people, violent conflict and extremist movements, and has undertaken/advised research projects on aid, financial crises and trade negotiations for DFID (UK), IDRC (Canada), and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His advocacy efforts for human development span a documentary on the water crisis set out of Africa, presentations to the President of India, the Indian Parliament and other legislatures, training of ministers in Central Asia, public lectures in several countries, and regular articles in the print media. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

Arunabha has a D.Phil. and M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford as the Marvin Bower Scholar. His doctoral thesis on the WTO’s monitoring system was nominated by Oxford for the Best Thesis Prize at the British International Studies Association. He earned a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and graduated in Economics at the top of his class from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He speaks Bengali, English, Hindi and basic Spanish.