Dr. Reva Prakash

Dr Reva Prakash is the Resources Efficiency and Environment Policy Advisor at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. She is also the Deputy Team Leader and Project Coordinator with the for the European Union funded Resource Efficiency Initiative (EU-REI). She works on issues related to fostering resource efficiency and secondary resource utilisation through a life-cycle approach especially in the area of buildings & construction, and e-waste. She has worked on implementation of the Resource Efficiency Strategy launched by NITI Aayog and EU Delegation to India including support in the preparation of the RE Sectoral Strategies on EEE Sector and Construction & Demolition Waste. Earlier, she was responsible for operationalising the Secretariat of the Indian Resource Panel towards development of Recommendations of an Indian Resource Efficiency Programme. She has a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has researched on environmentalism in the global south, international environmental norm building and agenda setting, environmental regimes and effectiveness of market mechanisms, globalisation and eco-feminism. She has been a youth activist with Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) and was its research and policy coordinator, and was a Indian youth delegate at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Durban in 2011, and has trained youth constituency in India on international politics of climate change.