Dr. Navarun Varma teaches interdisciplinary courses on disasters, water governance, food systems, and policy entrepreneurship. His teaching and research are at the intersection of sustainability science and policy education. Through fieldwork, participatory research, and simulation-based learning, he supports students in developing systems thinking, abductive reasoning, and foresight capabilities.

Dr. Varma co-edited Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education: Insights from Asia with Dr. Sreeja Nair of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. The book received NASPAA’s 2024 Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Book Award.

He currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. Before joining NUS in 2017, he was a Research Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, where he contributed to transdisciplinary research on climate resilience in the river basins of South Asia and flood disaster management in India.