Kapil Kumar Narula Email & Phone Number

Dr. Kapil Kumar Narula is CEO & Executive Director of CII-Triveni Water Institute, which aims to transform water conservation and management in India resulting in more effective and sustainable water management practices at the grassroots level. Prior to this, he was Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at the Columbia Water Center of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA, and served as Founder Trustee and Country Director of Columbia Water Center India office (CIPT). Before joining Columbia University, Kapil worked with the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as Associate Director where he headed a cross cutting initiative on Water and an inter-disciplinary group of researchers. In the subsequent years, this initiative gave rise to a full-fledged multi-disciplinary division in 2008, namely, the Water Resources Division. Dr Narula was also adjunct faculty at TERI University (which was a part of TERI itself during its early years of inception) where he designed and taught courses for Master’s and Doctoral students. An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Kapil is a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering and obtained his Doctorate (Ph.D) in the field of Integrated Water Resources and Environmental Modelling Systems. His international honors include receiving German Aerospace Research (DLR) fellowship and German Ministry of Science & Technology (BMBF) research scholarship for undertaking research in Water Resources and Nitrate Transport at the Research Center Juelich (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany) from 1997 to 1998 and in 2002. Dr. Narula has worked for over 28 years in providing scientific backstopping and support for analysis and reporting of water scarcity in India. His work figures in several international and national scientific journals.

Listed skills include Climate Change, Hydrologic Modeling, Water Resources, Sustainability, and 14 others.