Dr Srikanta K. Panigrahi

Dr. Srikanta K. Panigrahi is a Leading Indian Sustainability Thought Leader, who is also a Statesman, Policy Maker, Technocrat, Strategist, Environmental City Planner, Sustainability Practitioner, Gandhian Ecologist, Editor, Author and Poet. He is the Director General of prestigious national public policy think tank and research institute - Indian Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD), New Delhi and Member to Prime Minister on National Strategic Knowledge Mission on Climate Change, along with other Steering/Technical Expert Committees, Working Groups, Task Forces of Different Ministries, including Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC) of Government of India and UNFCCC. He has advised the apex policy making body of the Government, Planning Commission; where he was instrumental in the formulation and implementation of Tenth and Eleventh Five Year Plan in Environment & Forest Sector. He has worked for Government of India, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Bank. Dr Panigrahi has Delivered Key Note Addresses in 27 international universities (other than India), of the Globe. He has a B.Tech Degree in Civil Engineering with 3 Masters, One from IIT Delhi, Master Of Environmental Planning from School Of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, MBA from Technical University Of Dresden (TUD) Germany, and a PhD in Public Policy with a Specialization in Science Policy. He is also a Visiting Professor to teach Business Strategy and Business Sustainability at Department Of Management Studies (DMS), IIT Delhi and IIM Lucknow, Noida Campus.
Dr Panigrahi is known as "Chief Architect of Indian Carbon Market"; who was instrumental to initiate Kyoto in India, the entire UNFCCC CoP Process, Climate Change Negotiations and DNA formation and subsequently as it's Member to implement the National Action Plan, which he formulated and Operationalized CDM and it is only because of his personal pursuance and Leadership initiatives; India was first starter of CDM, among developing World and could emerge as Global CDM Leader.
Dr Panigrahi is also awarded National Science Popularization Award from hon'ble Prime Minister of India in 2004-05; for his extraordinary contribution and commitment to popularize Science among common mass, who is working in the areas of Environment Protection, Energy Conservation, Climate Change & Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development for the last more than 31 years.