Shikha Bhasin is a Visiting Fellow at the UNEP-based Cool Coalition, and continues to serve as an Advisor to the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). She is a public policy professional with fifteen years of work experience cutting through research and strategic outreach in the space of climate policies, in particular mitigation technologies, climate negotiations, and sustainable cooling. Shikha represents the Council on Energy Environment and Water as a Steering Committee Member of the Research and Independent NGO (RINGO) constituency accredited as Observers to the UNFCCC, and helped build the sustainable cooling and climate negotiations programmes at CEEW. A co-author of the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP), Shikha has been actively engaged in advocating – and developing – the policy ecosystem for sustainable cooling particularly with advisory on R&D, servicing sector, solar radiation management, HFC management regulations, and philanthropic strategies for India. Most recently, she has delivered the UNEP Global Cooling Watch report as a Coordinating Author – which forms the backbone of the Global Cooling Pledge , launched at COP28. 

A graduate of Delhi University and the London School of Economics and Politics, Shikha has worked extensively on policy-focused international technology cooperation research projects on climate change for over seven years with the German Development Institute (Bonn), the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (Amsterdam), and Radboud University (Nijmegen). Her research lies at the interface of policy and academia, and has been used to ascertain strategies in various governments, international organisations, and philanthropies. Shikha has served as an Advisory Board member to the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) instituted by the UNFCCC, and contributed to the inception and working of the UNFCCC’s Technology Mechanism.