Asmita is a mid-career professional with subject matter expertise in environment, urban planning, climate change and environmental, social and governance metrics. She has 15 years of experience with universities, think tanks, intergovernmental bodies, and NGOs including the Institute of Sustainable Development, US, and Canada, Brookings Institute, US, Provincial government in Canada and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Germany. She has academics training in urban and environmental planning and public policy from Cornell University, US, Virginia Tech, US, School of Planning and Architecture, India, and Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Canada. 

Country experience: Canada, Germany, Qatar, US, Saudi Arabia, India, Kenya, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, and Ethiopia.

Asmita is responsible for knowledge management, relation building and stakeholder management, project management and resource mobilization.