Dr. Fawzia Tarannum, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Regional Water Studies at TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS), is an interdisciplinary water professional with 20+ years of experience in project management, teaching and training. She is an Electrical Engineer with Diploma in Management and her PhD dissertation is on "Analysis of public perception of water quality and role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in supporting participative management."  In 2013, she was awarded the University of Nairobi- IDRC Doctoral Research Grant for her PhD study. She was also awarded the Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship by the US State Department in 2017 and has spent a year in Cornell University to enhance her skills in interdisciplinary approach to water management. She has received leadership training on Seven habits of highly effective people from Franklin Covey Institute and Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training by Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States. She has also done four months of professional affiliation in Water and Ocean Governance Department at UNDP in New York City. Prior to joining TERI SAS, she was General Manager- Sales at M/S Cleantec Infra Private Limited, a company engaged in mechanized cleaning and dredging solutions for shallow water bodies. Her research interests are gender, equity and water resources management, integrated water resources planning and management, water governance and food-water-energy nexus.

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Research Interests:

• Gender, equity, and water management
• Water governance
• Integrated water resources management
• Public perception and behaviour
• Public Participation
• Food-water-energy nexus
• Water Policy

Publications:

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Tarannum, F., Kansal, A. & Sharma, P., (2018). Understanding public perception, knowledge and behaviour for water quality management of the River Yamuna in India. Water Policy, 20(2), pp.266–281. Available at: http://wp.iwaponline.com/content/early/2018/01/29/wp.2018.134
• Tarannum, F., Kansal, A., & Sharma, P. (2018). ICT for Public Participation in River Water Quality Management-An Assessment of Knowledge, Readiness and Willingness. The Journal of Development Communication, 29(2), 76-90. Retrieved from http://jdc.journals.unisel.edu.my/ojs/index.php/jdc/article/view/82
• Gupta, M., Goyal, V. C., Tarannum, F. and Patil, J. P. (2017) ‘Designing a watershed scorecard as a performance evaluation tool for Ur River watershed, Tikamgarh District, Madhya Pradesh’, International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 5, pp. 280–292. doi: 10.1016/j.iswcr.2017.10.001.
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Other Articles

• Fawzia Tarannum (2020), 'Women as Agents of Change in Clean Energy Transition' , Energy Future, TERI, Issue -Vol.8(2) January-March 2020, 12-20 http://bookstore.teri.res.in/docs/magazines/Pages%20from_1_40_EF_Jan-Mar%202020.pdf
• Article on ‘Water and Sanitation Challenges Amidst Social Inequality in Urban Areas in India’, Inter Press Service News Agency(http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/03/water-and-sanitation-challenges-amidst-social-inequality-in-urban-areas-in-india-2/), March 2016
• Tarannum, F., Kansal, A. (2012) ‘Role of community perception analysis for sustainable water quality management- A review’, published in International Conference Proceedings on ‘Sustainable Development and Governance- Building Commerce and Communities’ jointly organized by Amrita University, India and Deakin University, Australia.
• Article on "Higher Education in Sustainable Development- A developing nations' perspective" published in ProSPER.net newsletter, Issue V, Oct 2011/June 2012