Rajat Rai Handa is an environmentalist, specialising in research, analysis and communications. He is currently a Research Fellow at BlackForest Solutions, a waste management company, based in Berlin, where he is looking into issues at the intersection of waste and energy to help mitigate climate change and achieve a circular economy. Previously, he has also worked as a journalist, and as a policy and political consultant. He has a bachelors degree in Physics and a masters degree in Public Policy.

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