Sectors of professional activity: Environment & NRM, Urban Development, Pollution & Waste Management (incl. treatment), Civil Engineering, Water & Sanitation, Science & Innovation, Research; Spoken languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi; Citizenships: India; Description: Dr. Anupam Khajuria joined the United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan, in 2024 as a Research Fellow and Academic Associate. Prior to joining UNU, Dr. Khajuria worked as a researcher at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)-DSDG/UN DESA in Nagoya, Japan, for almost 10 years. Her expertise lies in the realm of environmental research with an emphasis on waste and water management, circular economy, and education for sustainable development. After earning her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Osaka University in 2010, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, and Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), Tokyo, Japan. Earlier, she also held the environmental manager position at the Common Bio-Medical Treatment Facility in Agra, India. She has extensive knowledge and experience in conducting environmental research projects, during which she published a number of research articles in the environmental sciences domain, with a specific focus on waste and water engineering, the circular economy, planetary crisis, and the pursuit of sustainable development. She has also been associated with several environmental/scientific societies and contributes to the editorial boards of a few journals, such as Circular Economy, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, and Circular Economy of Frontier in Sustainability.