Rutuja Lele

Rutuja Lele

Rutuja Lele is a Visiting Research Fellow (CSR, Sustainability Management and Science Communication) at IISD. She is an Urban Planner, with a Bachelor Degree from College of Engineering, Pune (CEOP) and a Graduate (Master) from Technical University in Munich (TUM), Germany on Sustainable Resource Management. She had firsthand experience in the research in CSR in the (1) Airline Industry with a focus on Airfare pricing transparency and customer service as a matter of corporate reputation and (2) Economic Value of Environmental Amenity using Hedonic Price Model, with a special emphasis on open urban spaces, affecting the real estate market around green open spaces. Her research papers are published in Journal of Studies in Management and Planning, International Journal of Research on GIS in Environmental Planning. She was awarded by the Sakal India Foundation. She has studied and worked in the areas of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Science Communication and right now, She is in Research and Teaching Assignments, with Munich Business School, University of Applied Sciences for Business Administration, Munich, where she also aspires for a PhD in Sustainability.

At IISD, She is deeply involved on the Projects related to Sustainable Human Settlements Planning and Management, Sustainability Management, Climate Change Adaptation, CSR and Responsible Business, Social Sustainability, Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability, Environment Social Governance (ESG), Quality Education and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ms Lele’s eye for detail research, documentation, reporting, and communication have been her staples for her professional career. She is a reading and writing enthusiast dominantly about happenings in field of environment, global politics & policy, and sustainability. With IISD, she aspires to gain research and policy analysis experience, in addition to reaching a wider range of audience through her writings and articles, while catering to the mission of the organization.