Jyoti Parikh

Jyoti Parikh is Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi, and Senior Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. She has previously worked with the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Japan as well as with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. A recipient of several international awards, she is a member of several important international and national...See more

Jyoti Parikh is Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi, and Senior Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. She has previously worked with the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Japan as well as with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. A recipient of several international awards, she is a member of several important international and national committees and panels. Among others, Professor Parikh was the National Project Coordinator of a UNDP project on capacity building for environmental governance, Chairperson of the Environmental Economics Research Committee (EERC) and Environmental Consultant to the UNDP and the World Bank. She has made significant contributions in the areas of natural resource accounting and valuation, climate change, energy and power systems modelling and technology assessment. Her previous publications include Sustainable Regeneration of Wetlands; North-South Co-operation for Climate Change ; and Environmental Governance Series , Volumes 1 to 5. See less