Lyla Mehta is a sociologist with a PhD in Development Studies. She is a Professor at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Her work focuses on water and sanitation, climate change, transformation, rights, resource grabbing, and the politics of sustainability, scarcity, and uncertainty. She has conducted extensive field research in India and other parts of South Asia, as well as southern and eastern Africa. Her most recent books are Water, Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice and The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India.