Dr. Anamika Barua

Dr. Anamika Barua is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), India, and a Visiting Faculty Member at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, and the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE-NTU), Singapore. Her research interests include climate change and water security, ecological footprint, virtual water flows through trade, and water governance, including transboundary water governance. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including Energy Research and Social Science, Regional Environmental Change, Progress in Disaster Science, and Journal of Hydrology. Her recent publications include ‘Revisiting power in water diplomacy’, ‘Game theoretical analysis of China-India interactions in the Brahmaputra River Basin’, ‘Status quo in transboundary waters: unpacking non-decision making and non-action’, and ‘Hydropolitics intertwined with geopolitics in the Brahmaputra River Basin’. She is the author, with Tanushree Baruah, of ‘Game Theory and Water Diplomacy: Transboundary Water Conflicts and Cooperation’ (2025), and co-author of ‘Climate Change Governance and Adaptation: Case Studies from South Asia’ (2018). In 2020, she was a member of the drafting committee for India’s National Water Policy, constituted by the Ministry of Jal Shakti. She also led the Brahmaputra Dialogue (2015–2019), an initiative that created a platform for cooperation among Brahmaputra riparian countries on the co-management of shared river resources.