Dr. Radhika Khosla

Biography

Radhika Khosla is an Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, where she is also the Research Director at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. Her interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of science and policy, focusing on extreme heat and the rapidly growing global demand for cooling, particularly in the context of urbanization in the Global South. She is the Principal Investigator of the Oxford Martin School’s Future Cooling programme and a lead author of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Cooling Watch Report for 2023-2025. Radhika Khosla has been recognized for her contributions as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research Letters and has contributed to various international scientific reports, including the UNEP Emissions Gap Report and the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. Her work has received international recognition, with her research cited in over 2,500 media articles, including TIME Magazine and BBC. Khosla holds a PhD in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago and undergraduate and master’s degrees in Physics from the University of Oxford. She has extensive experience in climate change policy, urban energy demand, and sustainable development.

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