Dr Indu K Murthy is a Principal Research Scientist in the Adaptation and Risk Analysis team at CSTEP. She completed her bachelor's in Botany from Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai; master's in Botany from M S University, Baroda (with specialisation in Forestry and Environment); and PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Pondicherry University. Prior to joining CSTEP, she worked as a Consultant Scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Her areas of interest include climate change vulnerability, land-based mitigation, and adaptation/resilience building or climate-proofing development to climate change. Indu is on the Governing Board of South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs). She is an expert with the UNFCCC Roster of Experts for India (for GHG Inventory), and is also a member of the REDD+ Cell constituted by the Government of Karnataka.