A public policy expert, Srestha’s interest lies in improving environment and resource governance, and securing community rights through an interface of strong research and advocacy. She is the Director, Just Transition at iFOREST. Her current areas of work include climate change and just transition, mining and benefit sharing, environmental justice and participatory governance.

Lifeng Li is the Director of Land and Water Division, Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), leading FAO’s work on soils, land, water, geospatial and climate financing through partnership with the Adaptation Fund and acting as the FAO Focal Point to UNCCD Convention and Ramsar Convention.  He has over 15 years of experience on water policy, river basin and freshwater ecosystems management through his works in World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Wetlands International, as well expertise of climate financing, national climate planning & programming and count

Before IWMI:
2008-2018 International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai. Head of Climate Change Modeling and Adaptation, Principal Researcher Water Governance and Policy 1992-2013 University of Oxford Water group, with various roles including Course Director for MSc Water Science, Policy and Management

Expertise:
Climate change assessment, climate adaptation, climate risk management, drought monitoring and planning, water governance, water policy, science to policy