Tanaya Dutta Gupta is a Climate Security Specialist at CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, based in Nairobi. She is also a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Tanaya’s dissertation research focuses on climate-related mobilities, borders and bordering processes in the Ganges delta region of Bangladesh and India. Tanaya has around 10 years of experience in designing and conducting qualitative research, and her educational background includes master’s in geography and sociology, with specializations in political sociology and migration.