Aarthi Sridhar

Sridhar holds a doctoral degree in human geography from the University of Amsterdam, where her research addressed the historical sociology of fisheries science in India.

Sridhar was one of four founder trustees of the Dakshin Foundation, which was set up in 2008 and takes an interdisciplinary approach to biodiversity loss and coastal livelihoods, drawing on the varied academic backgrounds of its founders.

At Dakshin she heads the Communities and Resource Governance programme, which is concerned with resource use, environmental justice and the democratisation of knowledge. She also supports the foundation's SeaChange work and leads its communications team.

Trained in the social sciences, her academic interests are in historical and contemporary socio-legal studies, science and technology studies, and sociological approaches to knowledge and expertise. Her empirical work concerns coastal and marine environments, resource politics, maritime infrastructures and practices of environmental norms and justice. She has worked with interdisciplinary teams to produce essays, documentary films, educational websites, field manuals and other learning materials on marine environments and the people who depend on them, and writes for the magazine Current Conservation.[2][3][4]