Saudamini is the former professor at the Indian Economic Service section of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. She is a Fellow of the South Asia Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), a Fellow of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment (CECFEE), ISI, Delhi, and the Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her core academic activities have been training the Indian Economic Service probationers, doing research on environmental and climate change issues using non-market valuation approaches, and evaluating nature-based adaptations, and other adaptation measures. Her research on mangroves has influenced global policymaking.

Bibhu P. Nayak is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad Campus. An economist by training, he specializes in environmental and resource economics and decentralised governance, and teaches courses in Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Public Economics, Financing Cities, and other courses at the intersection of institutions, environment, and development. Before joining TISS, he held faculty positions at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru.

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Dr. Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati has been serving as an Associate Professor (Economics) and Head at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India. He has been working on several aspects of ecological economics including Economics of climate change, Environmental economics, Natural resource management, Energy economics, and Development economics. He has published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed high-impact factor journals like Journal of Policy Modeling, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Environmental Development, Nature Climate Change, Climate Risk Management, Scientific Reports, etc. Most of his research received financial support from various national and international agencies such as ICSSR, DST, SANDEE, OECD, APN-GCR, IGES, IIED, OECD, GIZ, etc. He has acted as a mentor for the Saleemul Huq Memorial Scholarship Awardees in loss and damage research at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), U.K. He was honoured with the "Young Economist Award" by the Odisha Economic Association in February 2025.

Website: https://hss.iittp.ac.in/dr-chandra-sekhar-bahinipati

Dr. Amarnath Tripathi is an Associate Professor at the Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida, where he also chairs the Centre for Social Innovation and Impact, a newly launched initiative aimed at bringing together academia, industry, and policymakers to co-create scalable solutions for pressing social and developmental challenges. With over 15 years of experience in academic and applied economic research, he has held prominent positions at institutions such as the School of Business Studies, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Symbiosis School of Economics at Symbiosis International (Deemed University) in Pune, and the Institute of Economic Growth in New Delhi. He has also contributed as a visiting scholar at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai.

Dr. Tripathi earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and completed a post-doctorate at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, under the Think Tank initiative of the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.

His research expertise centers on agricultural economics, climate risk management, and environmental policy, with related work spanning food and nutrition security and economic planning. He has published widely and continues to contribute to both academic discourse and policy debates.

Dr. Tripathi’s research has had tangible policy impact. His work formed the basis for the launch of the PM Asha program, centered on the deficiency payment system, and influenced the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare to revise the inter-state allocation of the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana. These contributions underscore his role in bridging research and policy to address critical challenges in Indian agriculture.

Actively engaged in monitoring and policy evaluation, Dr. Tripathi combines academic rigor with a commitment to practical solutions. His work reflects a consistent effort to connect research with actionable strategies for improving agriculture, climate resilience, and rural livelihoods.

Dr. Debalina Chakravarty is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad. She holds a Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in Economics from Jadavpur University. She was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and post-doctoral Fellow at IIM Calcutta. She has worked on several international research projects with the Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University (GCP-JU). Her research primarily focuses on Energy Economics and Urban Economics, with broader interests in climate change, energy transition, sustainability, women’s empowerment, and public policy. She teaches courses in energy economics, applied economics, econometrics, and microeconomics. Dr. Chakravarty has contributed extensively to research on energy access, climate resilience, urban development, and social inclusion, and actively mentors doctoral scholars in these areas. She is also engaged in outreach and social initiatives related to women's empowerment and sustainable development.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/debalinachakravarty/home

Prajna Paramita Mishra is Professor in the School of Economics of University of Hyderabad.
Before joining UoH she has worked as Assistant Professor in CESS, Hyderabad. Her research area is Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Her earlier research has concentrated in the areas of mining, sanitation and economic valuation.
Currently she is undertaking research on water climate food nexus. She has supervised 8 Ph.D and 13 M.Phil students. She has published her research in journals like Environment and Development Economics, Energy Research and Social Science, Extractive Industries & Society. Science of the total environment, Energy Economics and Nature Sustainability.

Dr. Indrani Roy Chowdhury is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, a position she has held since 2015. She also holds a concurrent faculty position in the School of Engineering (SoE) at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Dr. Roy Chowdhury teaches Health Economics, Quantitative Methods, Microeconomics, and Statistics. Her research primarily focuses on Health Economics, Gender Studies, and Environmental Economics. She is currently engaged in research and doctoral supervision in the areas of public policy, particularly maternal and child health, public health interventions, and regional development. A significant part of her work also examines women's agency, gender-based disparities, intimate partner violence, and the role of social norms in shaping socioeconomic outcomes.
She has collaborated with several eminent institutions, including AIIMS, CRUK–DBT, ICSSR, NCAER, and NITI Aayog. She served as Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) during 2020–2022.
Prior to joining JNU, Dr. Roy Chowdhury was affiliated with the Department of Economics at Jamia Millia Islamia, the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and the Council for Social Development (CSD), New Delhi.
She obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from the Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD), School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and her M.Phil. in Economics from Jadavpur University.

Website : https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/iroychowdhury

Dr. Kritishnu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences at the M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences. He has earned his PhD in Economics from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. His core area of research is environmental economics, primarily focused on the village communities' connection with the forests. His current research interests involve environmental and ecological economics, economics of climate change, and community research. He has published in journals such as Forest Policy and Economics, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities etc.

Dr. Kishore Kumar Dhavala is an Associate Professor in the School of Ecology and Environment Studies and Department of Economics, Coordinator, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies and Deputy Dean, International Cooperation at Nalanda University, India. He holds Ph.D. in Economics from Florida International University, USA, and served as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain. His work focuses on environmental and energy economics, climate change mitigation, ecosystem service valuation, natural resource management, and the blue economy. He has contributed to several national and international research projects funded by the European Commission, World Bank, ICSSR, and Government of India agencies, addressing issues related to climate policy, water security, fisheries governance, renewable energy, and sustainable development. At Nalanda University, he teaches Environmental and Energy Economics, Valuation of Ecosystem Services, and Econometrics. He actively mentors postgraduate and doctoral students and contributes to policy dialogues on sustainability, climate action, and regional development. He has also played a leading role in strengthening the university’s global engagement through international partnerships, scholarship initiatives, and academic collaborations, contributing to higher education cooperation across Asia and beyond.

Porf. Sanatan Nayak is teaching economics at the department of Economics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University at Lucknow, India at present. He was graduated from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (BA in Economics honours) and subsequently M.A, M.Phil and Ph.D in Economics from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience at institutions including Giri Institute of Development Studies and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. His research focuses on water, energy, and climate change, with publications in leading journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Heliyon, and Environment, Development and Sustainability. The scholar has completed nearly 9 projects sponsored by various National and International organisation such as UNDP, ICSSR, and Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. The scholar has supervised 13 PhD, 4 MPhil, and 1 Postdoctoral scholars. He received the Best Academic and Research Excellence Award from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in 2023 and serves on the committee estimating GSDP for the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Dr. Barun Kumar Thakur is an Associate Professor, Department of Economics at FLAME University, Pune India. Previously he has worked with the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Madras School of Economics, Indian school of Business, Hyderabad and VAMNICOM, Pune. He did his Ph.D. from IIM Mumbai (earlier NITIE, Mumbai), and a M.A in Economics from University of Hyderabad. His research is mainly on the intersection of water, air and land and the interdisciplinarity among these three issues along with the valuation of non-market goods and socioeconomics of water. Mostly the research is the amalgamation of field surveys and labs. He teaches Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Management, Mathematics for Economics and Microeconomics. His research has been previously funded by MoEF&CC, ICSSR, Bihar Pollution Control Board, and Australian National University.

Weblink: https://www.flame.edu.in/faculty/barun-kumar-thakur

Dr. Ratul Mahanta is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Gauhati University, Assam. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati. He also completed his postdoctoral research in Texas, USA, with a focus on risk and vulnerability studies. With over 24 years of teaching experience at the university level, Dr. Mahanta has made significant contributions to teaching, research, and academic administration. His major areas of research include Environmental Economics, Health Economics, and Development Economics. His scholarly contributions span a wide range of development and policy issues, resulting in good number of publications in international and national journals. His research has been published by leading international publishers, including Elsevier and Springer. Dr. Mahanta has successfully handled ten research projects sponsored by prestigious international and national agencies. In addition, he serves as a reviewer for several reputed national and international academic journals.

Dr. Mani Nepal is Lead Economist and Senior Intervention Manager at ICIMOD, where he leads a research network (SANDEE) that works in South Asia and Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. As an applied economist, Dr. Nepal’s research focuses on the intersection of development and environmental issues. He has held academic positions at Kyoto University, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu University, and the University of New Mexico. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds an MS in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PhD in Economics and Applied Econometrics from the University of New Mexico.