Ereesha De Silva is a PhD candidate and a researcher at the Indo-Pacific Research Centre, within the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, Australia.

Her doctoral thesis is multidisciplinary, focusing on the gendered environmental impacts of climate-change-induced disasters and on road infrastructure planning and development in the South Asia sub-region. She teaches postgraduate courses in public policy, governance and policy research.

As the lead researcher on this study, she seeks to challenge technocratic policy architectures by centring intersectionality and marginalised voices.