Draft:Aditi Mukherji

• Comment: The external links were flagged in August 2025, and still haven't been addressed. Greenman (talk) 23:24, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Please work on it as per MOS:BIO and also on the previous comments of reviewers. Thanks, Please feel free to ping/mention -- User4edits (T) 18:34, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Going to have to second the previous decline here - improper use of external links. See WP:INLINE, which is the preferred way to cite sources instead of linking directly. Additionally, the article isn't written in the proper format of an article - many sections seem like lists instead of encyclopedic prose. Looking at the sources, some look fine, but some are WP:PRIMARY - profiles about her, websites from her employer(s), etc. The majority of the sources (some primary are fine) should be secondary and reliable, so make sure you're following that as well. Z E T A^C 00:25, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Improper use of external links throughout the article. Needs inline citations. Haj (talk) 14:45, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

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Aditi Mukherji

Aditi Mukherji. is an Indian human geographer and climate researcher whose work focuses on climate adaptation, groundwater governance, and water systems. She served as a Coordinating Lead Author of the water chapter in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II and was a member of the Core Writing Team for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report.

Mukherji has held research and leadership roles at international organizations including the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), CGIAR, and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

Since 2025, she has served as Principal Scientist for Climate Action at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya.

Early life and education

Mukherji studied geography at Presidency College, Kolkata, and later obtained a master's degree in geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She earned an M.Phil. in Planning and Development from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, she completed a PhD in human geography at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral work focused on the political economy of groundwater, establishing a multidisciplinary approach that combines social equity with environmental science.

Career

Mukherji began her career at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), where her research focused on groundwater governance, irrigation, and water management in South Asia.

Between 2013 and 2018, she led the Water and Air theme at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in Kathmandu, contributing to the Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme.

Mukherji later joined CGIAR, where she directed the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Area Platform and contributed to climate-related research and policy engagement. She was a contributing author to the 2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture.

In 2025, she joined ILRI as Principal Scientist for Climate Action to lead a new research portfolio on livestock, climate adaptation, and resilience in the Global South.

IPCC and international climate roles

Mukherji served as Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 4 (“Water”) in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II, published in 2022.. She was also a member of the Core Writing Team and Section Facilitator for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report, published in 2023. Independent media coverage of the reports identified her among the contributing authors commenting on climate risks in South Asia and water security.

Previously, in 2019, she served as a Review Editor for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

In 2024, she was among eight climate scientists invited to brief the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at COP29 in Baku. That same year, she provided expert testimony at the International Court of Justice on the impacts of climate change on food and water systems.

Research areas

Mukherji’s research has addressed Groundwater governance and the role of energy pricing and infrastructure, Climate adaptation and its limits at different levels of warming, Equity and gender dimensions of solar irrigation and the political ecology of agricultural transitions under climate change.

In interviews discussing IPCC findings, she has emphasized the relationship between agriculture, water systems, and climate resilience, including energy transitions in irrigation and groundwater management.

Awards and recognition

In 2012, Mukherji received the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, awarded by the World Food Prize Foundation for her research related to groundwater access and irrigation policy in India.

She has also received the Global Development Network Medal for Research on Natural Resources Archived 2013-04-23 at the Wayback Machine (2008).

In 2024, she was named as a lead Earth Commissioner for the Earth Commission on just and safe planetary boundaries.

Selected publications

Some research by Mukherji include

• Mukherji, A. et al. (2024). 2024 Breakthrough Agenda Report: Agriculture. CGIAR.
• IPCC (2023). Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Core Writing Team.
• Schipper, E. L. F., & Mukherji, A. (2024). “Misguided negative adaptation narratives are hurting the poor.” Science, 386(6722). DOI
• Caretta, M., & Mukherji, A. et al. (2022). "Water." In IPCC WGII AR6 Chapter 4.

Media and outreach

Mukherji has since been featured or quoted in The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera , DW , Eurasian Review and Hindustan Times, contributing op-eds and appearing on science-policy panels.

External links

• Aditi Mukherji at CGIAR
• Aditi Mukherji Google Scholar Profile
• Interview on India Energy Hour Podcast