R. Selvaraju PhD
Climate Applications Research Scientist
Dr. Selvaraju’s competencies include
natural disaster risk and vulnerability analysis,
livelihood adaptation to climate change, downscaling
and tailoring locally usable climate forecast
products, institutionalizing and mainstreaming
climate risk management in development planning,
and disaster impact and damage-loss assessments.
Dr. Selvaraju joined ADPC in April 2005, and
has, since, been involved in tool development
(e.g. impact outlook, adaptation strategies,
etc.) for the translation of climate forecasts
into information that is usable at the local
level, and in capacity building of various
climate information users to enable them to
make use of these tools.
Dr. Selvaraju has 14 years experience in
applied climate risk management research and
project implementation, particularly in the
areas of climate forecast application (drought-risk
management, water resource allocation, whole-farm
integrated risk management), communication
of probabilistic climate information, farm
level decision analysis, economic valuation
of ENSO-based climate forecasts, climate change
adaptation, community-based participatory
tools and processes, and capacity building.
Dr. Selvaraju holds a Ph.D. in Agriculture
(1993) specialized in agro-climatology and
modeling. He has received seven awards for
original research contributions and published
more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed
journals.
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