An architect, urban planner, and researcher, her experience spans across teaching, research, and industry in India. After completing a post graducation in City Planning from IIT Kharagpur, India, she began her career by teaching undergraduate students and freelancing in her hometown, then a sleepy little coastal town in South India. She then enrolled in the PhD program at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning at IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
In addition to her academic work, she contributed to IPE Global Pvt. Ltd., a global consulting firm, on an ADB-funded water sanitation project. She also collaborated with two startups—one focused on electric mobility using battery swap technology, and the other a civic tech company. Furthermore, she has worked as a freelance consultant on metro daylight studies and GIS-based master planning for selected towns in India.
Jeeno has a keen interest in using advanced tools and models for data-driven climate solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the risk of building over flood plains and standardizing an approach to identify locations for nature-based solutions in cities, specifically looking into road networks and stream channels. The resulting policy recommendations were compiled in a policy brief, advocating for investment in sustainable, inclusive, and resilient green infrastructure, and were accepted for publication by the G20 Brazil's T20 Task Force 02. Following her doctoral studies, she worked with a civic tech startup in India to develop a flood risk decision support tool for the state of Assam in Northeast India. The impact of this work is summarized in this blog. The pilot project has received further funding to expand to four other states in India. As part of the initiative, she led a series of webinars on "Climate Dialogues" to facilitate peer learning and knowledge sharing on technological and data-driven ways to advance climate action plans, involving experts from across the globe.
- George, J.S., et al., “Investing in Sustainable, Inclusive, and Resilient Green Infrastructure”, T20 Policy Brief, September 2024
- Arora, K., et al., “Building Climate Data Ecosystem for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and Societies”, T20 Policy Brief, May 2023
- Dhawale, Richa, Saikat Paul, and Jeeno Soa George. "Water balance analyzis using Palmer Drought Severeity Index for drought-prone region of Marathwada, India." International Journal of River Basin Management 21, no. 4 (2023): 731-742.
- George, J.S., Paul, S.K., Dhawale, R., 2021c. Contrasting urban greenness across cities with varying trends in above-normal weather events. Nature-Based Solutions 100008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2021.100008
- George, J.S., Paul, S.K., Dhawale, R., 2021. Multilayer network structure and city size: A cross-sectional analysis of global cities to detect the correlation between street and terrain: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083211039853\
- George, J.S., Paul, S.K., Dhawale, R., 2021b. A cellular-automata model for assessing the sensitivity of the street network to natural terrain. Annals of GIS 0, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475683.2021.1936173