Disha Joshi is a young policy professional, with experience of working with top-most bureaucrats and politicians of India. She has completed her Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) from the O P Jindal Global University from Haryana, India. She is currently working with Government of India’s top Investment agency, Invest India as Policy Consultant. In her work as developmental professionals, she is focusing on advancing the participation of women by the means of policy reforms and adapting more gender conscious approach to governing. She has sampled some of the best practices in policy forums that advocate strengthening efforts by empowering women by redistribution of power and responsibility to enforce policy at grassroot level.

She is also a Director at a non-profit company called, Sankala foundation which is working on the mission to bring sustainable solutions for the emerging global issues affecting our world and create a space to determine, integrate and disseminate best practices to develop proactive models to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). With this organisation, she is planning to build a gender sensitive community approach that works primarily towards adapting sustainability practices to minimise the generational burden of climate change.

Participant in: March 2023 Fellowship: Climate Change, Gender, and Conflict