Dr. Poonam Ahluwalia is a Senior Municipal Engineer working with Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land unit of the World Bank Group. - She has a doctorate degree from IIT Delhi and more than 25 years of experience in project management, design, research, and techno-economic evaluation of systems in Water, Wastewater, Drainage, Green infrastructure and Solid Waste sectors. - She holds the PMP certification from Project Management Institute (USA) and the Accredited Professional certification from Indian Green Building Council. - She has more than 80 publications in various international and national forums and a book on “Water and Wastewater Systems” to her credit. - She is currently leading/ co-leading and serving as a technical resource on various infrastructure projects at the World Bank.

-Director of Federation of Industries and Industrial Professionals - Executive Fellow at Woxsen University Hyderabad - Senior Advisor at GLG Council Hong Kong -CEO of CosmosMinds - Secretary of Assam Academy of Mathematics - Member of Institute of Science - Deployment of AI tools in Oil & Gas industry - Guest faculty at Dhaka School of Economics, Bangladesh - Doctorate in BA from Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva, Switzerland - Advisor/Coach at IID at Ministry of MSME

-Working as Green building and sustainability Research Lead in Meet Freespanz - Pursued Doctorate from BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, - Silver Medalist in NIT Raipur (M Tech Civil Engineering), - Worked as a client in Google Maps for 4 Years - Research Intern in CRRI in Diamond Jubilee Research Internship award. - Secured first prize for best paper award in Hydro 2022 International. - Published four International peer reviewed papers in Journal of Water and Climate Change, H2O open Journal and Water Science and Technology - Experience in watershed and hydrologic modelling, Maps, Teaching , Research and Development. - Vision of equal education to all through Digital education

MSc Remote sensing (GIS) - M Tech Environmental Engineering - 25 years experience in Disaster Management, Sustainability and Security - Multiple Research Papers on Sustainability, Renewable energy and Rain Water Harvesting - Subject specialist in Renewable Energy and Climate Resilience.