Dr Sanjay Sharma is posted as an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, since February 2022. He has a rich teaching experience of fifteen years working in the central institutions like Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi and Army Cadet College, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He holds a doctorate from the Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi, on Federal Governance of Environment in India and Canada. He has completed his Master’s and Master of Philosophy from the University of Delhi. He works in public policy, focusing on issues of political ecology like disaster governance, climate change negotiations, political economy, and energy security. He has been awarded two major projects by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Delhi. The first project, entitled “The role of Panchayati Raj in Disaster Management: An Empirical Study of Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh Districts of Uttarakhand was completed in 2019, and the previous year, the report of the second project was submitted. The project focused on Solid Waste Management and Integration of the Informal Sector: A Case Study of Nagar Nigam Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He has published quality research papers in Sage and UGC Care-list journals on his area of expertise. He has contributed a couple of chapters to the edited books. In addition, he has edited a book entitled “Environmental Governance in India: A National and International Perspective. He has also co-authored another book entitled “Global Politics” (in Hindi), published in 2025. He has attended numerous national and international conferences in India and at international platforms. He is a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS). He is seeking to apply knowledge gained from research and teaching constructively and open an interdisciplinary Centre on political ecology, which shall be grounded in political science and explore diverse public policy areas of political ecology like disaster governance, climate change, energy security and so on.