Veena Srinivasan is the founder and executive director of WELL (Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods) Labs, a research and innovation centre transforming water systems across India through partnerships and collective action.
Veena is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Water Management Institute and has had a long stint at ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment), where she worked on water-related themes. She also chairs the Strategic Advisory Group for the Integrated Monitoring Initiative for UN SDG 6 and was previously the Prince Claus Chair at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
She has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and a Master’s in energy and environmental studies from Boston University. She also has a PhD from Stanford University’s programme in environment and resources, and was a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford University, developing a framework for Stanford’s Global Freshwater Initiative.
