Sahila Kudalkar

I am a second-year PhD student in the Sustainable Development program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. My research interests include labor, migration, political economy and biodiversity. I am especially interested in the economic, environmental, and political tradeoffs that shape the design and implementation of environmental policy.

I hold Masters degrees in Public Policy (The University of Chicago), and Conservation Biology (State University of New York). I also have seven years of research and project management experience on topics such as wildlife trafficking, human-wildlife conflict, endangered species, resettlement of forest-dwellers from protected areas, and community-based conservation. I previously worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society in India.