Baishali Goswami is one of the co-founders of CMID and leads programmes and the thematic areas of education, gender and climate resilience. She is also the lead at CMID for the project Climate Change Local Adaptation Pathways (CLAPs) implemented in partnership with Gram Vikas Community Development Foundation and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). She is part of the CMID core team in profiling migration from Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts of Odisha. She has played a key role in the analysis and preparation of baseline survey reports for various partners of Leonard Cheshire in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Sri Lanka and South Africa under the Access to Livelihoods programme. An expert in both quantitative and qualitative research, she was part of District Level Household Survey-Reproductive and Child Health (DLHS-RCH): India team at the International Institute for Population Sciences, India. She has a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), India. Baishali has a master’s degree in Populations Studies from International Institute for Population Studies and another in economics from North Bengal University, India.