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Sumeet Patil heads NEERMAN, a non-profit research firm specialising in impact evaluations and policy research in water and sanitation, agriculture, energy and disaster management sectors. He is also Principal Consultant at Prestels, a sister concern of NEERMAN, focusing on chemical and industrial disaster management.

Mr. Patil’s expertise covers impact evaluations, monitoring and evaluation systems, economic and policy research, probabilistic health risk assessments, non-market valuation of environmental and natural resources, developing emergency preparedness policies and plans, and e-governance systems.

He has worked on several projects for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Food Safety and Inspection Service, the US Food and Drug Administration, and others.

Mr. Patil has extensively published in leading international journals and presented at conferences worldwide. He holds two master’s degrees in Environmental Economics and Environmental Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.