Smriti Jalihal

India

MSc Environmental Change and Management, 2023
Mansfield College, Kofi Annan Scholarship
Funding: Oxford-Hoffmann

Smriti graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies and Public Policy from FLAME University, India. She loves being on the field, engaging with issues on the ground, and making this information accessible.

Smriti has worked in the Trans Himalayan region, Nicobar Islands, and on the Konkan Coast, where she studied human-bear, agriculture-macaque, and turtle-fisher interactions respectively. At the Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, Smriti led the efforts of formulating and building India’s first district-level statistics and culture repository. She has previously interned at Centre for Policy Research, Dakshin Foundation, and Centre for Environment Education where she worked on different aspects of environmental legislation and grievance redressal mechanisms. Having worked across different geographies in India, Smriti strongly believes in documenting local ecological knowledge for bottoms-up policy actions.

At Oxford, Smriti looks forward to gaining the tools and knowledge to work on decentralised ecosystem governance and climate policy in India.