Dr. Purnamita Dasgupta, Chair Professor in Environmental & Resource Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, is currently on leave as Theme Leader, Ecosystem Services, ICIMOD. She has been visiting professor at University of Cambridge, UK and Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her teaching and research focus on the relationship between environment and economic development. Her research assignments include CLA of the IPCC and IPSP, author HIMAP, Advisor IPCC’s Scientific Steering Group on Economics, Costing and Ethics; CARIAA and the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK. She has contributed to modelling for India’s NDCs and NATCOM processes, drafting regulation on e-waste, natural resource accounting for the CAG, Supreme Court committee on NPV for Forests, committee to evolve environmental standards, among others. She has published in journals such as Climatic Change, PLOS One, Environment and Development Economics, Environmental Development, Environmental Health Perspectives.Dr. Anindita Roy Saha is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Head of the Department of Environmental Studies and Coordinator of the Centre for Earth Studies at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She is a visiting faculty at the Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, University of Delhi. She has been associated with Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ambedkar University Delhi, Nalanda University, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Amity University in various capacities. She completed her Master’s and Ph D degrees from CESP, JNU. Her area of specialization is Environmental and Resource Economics that has evolved from Energy Economics during her doctoral research. She has been engaged in research guidance and published several articles in reputed national and international journals. Beyond academics, she is engaged in popularizing environmental education and community sensitization.Dr. Robin Singhal is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. He works in the area of Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics and issues relating to Economics of Infrastructure. He has been a visiting faculty for Master’s Programmes such as Environmental Studies & Resource Management and Climate Science & Policy at the TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi and the Executive Energy Management Programme at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. He has also been associated in various academic and professional capacities with the Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi; School of Inter-Disciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi; Punjab School of Economics at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and DAV University, Jalandhar. He has published in reputed journals and presented his research at several conferences.
