Profile

Sandeep Sengupta has been a visiting faculty at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 2014, teaching courses on climate change politics and governance, international climate negotiations, and development and sustainability. He holds a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. His academic research has focused on the global politics of climate change and its evolution over the last three decades. He also has extensive professional experience, having worked for several years across a wide range of environment and development issues both within and outside the government in India, and in international organisations abroad. He currently leads IUCN’s institutional engagement on climate change.
 

Selected publications
 

• Climate change, international justice and global order, special section on ‘Injustice and the crisis of international order’, International Affairs, Vol. 99, No. 1, January 2023, pp. 121-140.
• Deciphering India’s foreign policy on climate change: The role of interests, institutions and ideas, in Johannes Plagemann, Sandra Destradi and Amrita Narlikar (eds), India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2020, pp. 167-194.
• India’s engagement in global climate negotiations from Rio to Paris, in Navroz K. Dubash (ed.), India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2019, pp. 114-141.
• Defending ‘Differentiation’: India’s foreign policy on climate change from Rio to Copenhagen, in Kanti P. Bajpai and Harsh V. Pant (eds), India’s Foreign Policy: A Reader, Oxford University Press, Delhi/Oxford, 2013, pp. 389-414.
• Emerging powers, North-South relations and global climate politics, special issue on ‘Rio+20 and the Global Environment: Reflections on Theory and Practice’, International Affairs, Vol. 88, No. 3, May 2012, pp. 463-484 (with Andrew Hurrell).
• Managing the Environment: A growing problem for a growing power, in India: The Next Superpower?, A special report of LSE International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy (IDEAS), London School of Economics, March 2012, pp. 54-58.
• International climate negotiations and India’s role, in Navroz K. Dubash (ed.), Handbook of Climate Change and India: Development, Politics and Governance, Routledge, London, 2012, pp. 101-117.
• Climate change and India’s national strategy, in Krishnappa Venkatshamy and Princy George (eds), Grand Strategy for India: 2020 and Beyond, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 301-313.
• Planning at a Landscape Scale, in Sara Scherr and Jeffrey A. McNeely (eds), Farming with Nature: The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture, Island Press, London, 2007, pp. 308-321 (with William J. Jackson and Stewart Maginnis).
• Site-level strategies for restoring forest functions on agricultural land, in Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken, Stewart Maginnis and Alastair Sarre (eds), The Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook, Earthscan, London, 2007, pp. 119-128 (with Stewart Maginnis and William J. Jackson).
• Forests and Development: Where do we stand?, in Jeffrey Sayer (ed.), The Earthscan Reader in Forestry and Development, Earthscan, London, 2005, pp. 11-58 (with Stewart Maginnis).