Pallavi Rachel George
| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Kalam Fellowship for Doctoral Research |
| Project Title: | Urban Coastal Resilience Planning in the Era of Climate Change: A Comparative Study of Coastal Cities of the United States and India |
| Field of Study: | Climate |
| Home Institution: | Indian Institute of Management Indore, Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
| Host Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA |
| Grant Start Month: | August 2024 |
| Duration of Grant: | Nine months |
Brief Bio:
Pallavi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where she specializes in the Public Systems Group (PSG). After three years of working as a policy researcher in the development sector, she turned to academia to follow her passion for research, teaching, and mentoring.
Pallavi’s research examines climate resilience in coastal cities with a focus on developing inclusive planning mechanisms and outcomes. Her work stands at the intersection of public policy, urban planning, and climate sciences, viewing coastal cities as socio-ecological systems with complex interdependencies that must be captured in urban climate resilience planning and policymaking. In her research, Pallavi utilizes various quantitative and qualitative methodologies, such as social network analysis, computational online text analysis, structural equation modelling, policy document analysis, and statistical methods.
As a Fulbright-Kalam Climate fellow, Pallavi is studying select coastal cities in the U.S. and India to comparatively examine resilience planning processes and outcomes to further the common goal of achieving inclusive resilience in our cities. She did her bachelor’s in economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and her master’s in public policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her studies in Singapore were supported by a scholarship from the Li Ka Shing Foundation. She has presented her work at various conferences, both national and international. In her free time, Pallavi enjoys practicing Bharatnatyam, playing badminton, painting, and travelling.