Dr. Radhika Khosla

Associate Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford 

Radhika’s research portfolio includes being the Principal Investigator of the Oxford Martin School’s interdisciplinary and multi-country programme on the Future of Cooling, which examines rising extreme heat and the unprecedented increase in cooling energy demand in relation to the sustainable development goals. She is the Co-Investigator of Oxford Net Zero, an interdisciplinary research programme aimed at informing effective, equitable, and ambitious climate action, where she co-leads the workstream on inclusive and just net-zero transitions.

Radhika works closely at the interface of research and policy. She is Editor-in-Chief of the high-impact peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Research Letters. She has been a Special Scientific Advisor to the UK’s House of Commons Environment Audit Committee for the inquiry on heat resilience and sustainable cooling (2023-24). She serves on the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office UK-India Advisory Board.