Dr. Ajay Pradhan is the Director of Cetus Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and has over three decades of experience in planning, designing, and implementing infrastructure projects. Before this, he worked as Managing Director for Halcrow-CH2M (now Jacobs) and DHI. He has been a consultant to the Planning Commission, and a scientist in the Designing and Modeling Group of the National Informatics Centre, Government of India. His key practice and research areas include technology intervention, energy transition, hydropower projects, sustainable integrated water resources management (IWRM), maritime logistics and security, climate resilience and risk assessments, policy, and Governance.