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 Shreekant Gupta has worked as a researcher and policymaker in areas spanning energy, environment, urban policy and economics over the last 25 years. Most recently he was Director (in the rank of Additional Secretary to the Government of India), National Institute of Urban Affairs at New Delhi, a think tank on urban issues with close ties to the Indian government.
Currently he is faculty (Associate Professor) at the LKY School of Public Policy. His other current affiliations include faculty member, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Honorary Director, Urban Governance Program, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, and Member of the Board of Trustees of Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) supported by the Asian Development Bank. He has taught at the universities of Delhi, Maryland and at Jawaharlal Nehru University and NUS.
His teaching and research interests are in applied economics and policy including environment and development, climate change, urban economics, public economics and microeconomics. Earlier, he was Fellow National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi (1995-97) and headed the Environmental Policy Cell at NIPFP. He has also worked as an environmental economist at the World Bank at Washington DC and as a career economist in the Indian government (Indian Economic Service cadre).
Dr Gupta has served on several national and international committees including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and was Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001-2002) and Shastri Fellow at Queens University, Canada (2001). |
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