Dr. Om Katel is a faculty member at the College of Natural resources, Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), Lobesa, Bhutan and a former Dean of Research and Industrial Linkages. In addition to teaching and research he is shouldering the responsibility as a head of the centre for Environment and Climate Research and a program leader for the PhD in Climate Studies program. Dr. Katel has 21 years of teaching experience, and he teaches courses on Environmental governance, Natural Resources Management, Climate Change Vulnerabilities and Adaptation, Integrated Watershed Management and Environmental Systems Analysis. He has been a visiting researcher at Nagoya University, Japan, since 2015. Dr Katel is an alumnus of Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES), Intensive program on Sustainability (IPoS); International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD); Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS); and South Asian Network for the Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). Dr Katel is a focal person from RUB for Least Developed Countries University’s Consortium on Climate Change, RUB representative for SWISSnex India, and country’s representative to IPCC. Currently Dr Katel is post-doctoral research fellow at the Grassroots Institute Canada. Dr Katel’s research interests are wide and is interested in addressing Climate change adaptation and resilience in Mountains, Mountain Urbanization, Water resources management and dynamics of ecosystems linking climate change and development.
ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE STUDIES