Kishan Khoday is a Canadian of Indian origin, serving as Assistant Country Director and Team Leader for Energy & Environment with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Beijing, China. Kishan has served with the UN over the past ten years on issues of sustainable development, in India, Indonesia and now China. Prior to joining the UN, Kishan worked with several NGOs, government agencies, and research institutes in Canada.

A CISDL Legal Research Fellow since 2005, Kishan supports CISDL research activities in the areas of trade and investment law, CSR and climate change. CISDL publications in 2005-07 included “Trade and Sustainable Development in Asia – Managing Social Exclusion, Conflict and Poverty” in Sustainable Developments in World Trade Law, “UN-Business Partnerships to Combat Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss” in the Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, and “Globalization and Environmental Governance in China” at the 4th IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.

Publications for CISDL in 2008-09 include “Climate Change as a Threat to Peace and Security in the Himalayas” in Climate Change in Asia & the Pacific; “Sustainable Development as Freedom: Access to Information, Participation and Justice” in Sustainable Development & the Law; “The Rise of China and India: Emerging Challenges of Inclusive Governance, Social Equity & Land Rights” in Sustainable Developments in World Investment Law; “Climate Change in a Multi-Polar World: Complexity and adaptive governance” in Climate Change & the Challenge of Local Responses; and “The 21st Century Battle for Souls: The Rise of Emerging Economies, the Global Commodity Boom and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” to be presented at the 4th IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.

Kishan has also served as a Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University Law Faculty in Beijing where he has lectured on rights-based approaches to climate change and energy law. He holds a Juris Doctor in Law from Vermont Law School, M.Sc in Resource Management and Administration from Antioch New England Graduate School and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from McGill University."