Programme Manager
Karishma is a Programme Manager with the Farms and Forests Initiative at CSEI. She aggregates and integrates the best available science with local demand and aspirations to co-design socio-ecologically responsible restoration of degraded lands.
Her work is multi-layered and focuses on institutions, policy, finance, transitions and adaptive governance mechanisms for agrarian systems. Skilled in qualitative analysis, she applies participatory research techniques, gender analysis, ethnographic research and discourse analysis for scientific assessments of land-use systems.
Karishma previously worked at World Resources Institute (WRI) for over seven years in various capacities, most recently with their Global Restoration Initiative. Here, she conducted restoration opportunity assessments in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh and co-developed the MAPTenure platform to address the orange area land conflict in Central India.
She holds an MA in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a BA in Sociology and Economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
