Dr Naveen Kumar is an Associate Fellow at CSEP. He completed his PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, specialising in Climate Change Macroeconomics. His research focuses on the macroeconomic impacts of climate change in developing economies. He employs both quantitative methods and empirical tools within the broad area of Climate Macroeconomics and Environment & Development Economics. His work has been published in leading ABDC-ranked journals, including Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, Finance Research Letters, and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. He is a recipient of the Harsh Malhotra Prize at the Centre for Development Economics and has contributed to policy discussions on climate resilience and uneven growth in India.