Experience

Period Status Organization
01.76 to 06.76 Assistant Professor Science Policy Unit ASCI, Hyderabad (India)
05.77 to 09.77 Visiting Post- Doctoral Fellow MIT Center for International Studies, Cambridge (USA)
01.78 to 09.87 Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore (India)
01.84 to 10.85 Project Director Doon Valley Ecosystems Study, Dehradun
10.87 to 12.92 Senior Professional Staff International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Kathmandu (Nepal)
01.93 to 06 93 Consultant RH and H Consulting, Copenhagen (Denmark)
11.93 to 12.96 Visiting Professor / Director of Research,International Academy of Environment (IAE), Geneva (Switzerland)
02.97 to 09.97 Visiting Fellow Institute for Communication and Analysis of Science and Technology (ICAST), Geneva
10.97 to date Professor and Head Centre for Development and Environment Policy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India

Current Projects

- Member of Task Force on Mountain Ecosystems(11th Plan) of Planning Commission of India
- Member of the Achievements Review Committee for National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee (1999-2004), India
- Member of the International Advisory Committee, Water Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA
- Expert Reviewer for 4th Assessment by Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, GBPIHED, Almora (2007-12)
- President of The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (2006-8)
- Member of the Board of the International Society for Ecological Economics (2007-9)
- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Member of the research advisory committee, CESS, Hyderabad.
- Founder President (2002-09) of South Asian Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Studies (SaciWaters), Hyderabad
- Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for Responses W/G in Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Member of the Advisory Board of Progress in Development Studies (London, Arnolds)
- Member of the Editorial Board Journal of Water Resource and Protection (Irvine, CA, SRP)

Awards

1. Invited as a member of the UNESCO expert group to address the Future of Planet Earth

2. Appointed as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (2007-2011) of the GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development by the Min. of Env. & Forests, India

3. Fellow of the India-China Institute (2010-12) of The New School, New York, USA

4. EU Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor (2010-12) to visit the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK in 2011.

5. Invited by the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Geneva to prepare the draft of the chapter in Agenda-21 on the world’s mountains

6. Invited by the World Commission on Environment and Development to (WCED) Geneva
to write background paper on Rehabilitation of Upland Watersheds