Research Areas:

Environmental Economics and Finance, Commodity Trade; IPR Regimes for Low Carbon, IT, Plant Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Sectors

Recent Consulting:

Climate Financing Policy and Issues connected to G 20 - Ministry of Finance , Government of India (2010-11)

Environmental Financing of Global Public Goods, DFID - GTZ- Norwegian Government (2008 and ongoing)

Policy for Managing Societal Risks in India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, IPR Economics in the SME and IT sectors (2007-2010)

Current Projects:

Environmental Financing Architecture and Financing of Low Carbon Initiatives, DFID, India (2008-2011)

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) Demonstration in Developing Countries- Analysis of Key Policy Issues and Barriers with reference to IP Rights Asian Development Bank, East Asia, Division, Manila (2009-10)

Policy for Managing Societal Risks in India, Ministry of Environment and Forests; Government of India (2007- 10)

Academic Positions:

Professor, IIM Bangalore: 2005-present
Visiting Faculty IIM Bangalore 2004-05
Visiting Professor, GSOM, St Petersburg University, Russia 2009 and 2010
Visiting IDPAD Scholar, University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, May 2006 - June 2006
Professor, Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore 1996-2001 and 2001 -04
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, April - June 2004
Fellow, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department of Economics and Technological Change, University of Bonn, Germany, June 2003
Visiting Professor, Natural Resource Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada, 2000-2001
US-AEP visiting Scholar, University of Berkley, California, USA, 1994

Other Professional Appointments:

Environmental Fellow, US Environment Protection Agency, Region V, Atlanta, USA, 1994 (first Quarter) 
Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Canada 2000-2001 (concurrent with University of Manitoba Visiting Professorship) 

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership:

Member, International Expert Group to assess financial resources for Global Environmental Facility(GEF)-6 Replenishment  Exercise, UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal.
Member, Expert Group on IPR Strategies for SMEs, WIPO, Geneva 2009.
Chair, Advisory Committee on IPRs, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment, Government of Kerala 2007-2009
Member, High Level Task Force on Price Stabilization of Plantation Commodities - 2006 - 2007, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India
Member, Expert Advisory Group on the 'UN Convention on Desertification', Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India - 2004 and ongoing
Member, Expert Advisory Group on the 'Precautionary Principle Approaches to Trade and Environment', Ministry of Environment and Forests - 2004 and ongoing
Member, International Steering Committee, Code of Conduct for Coffee Community, GTZ - European Coffee Federation, Germany and the Netherlands 2004-2011
Member, Core Committee on Tea Futures, United Planters Association of Southern India, 2002-2004
Member, WTO Cell, Government of Karnataka, 2000-2003
Member, Madhya Pradesh Biodiversity Board, 2000 -2003
Member, Standing Committee on the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, Madhya Pradesh Biodiversity Board, 2000 -2004
Member, Standing Committee on the Equitable Sharing of Benefits, Madhya Pradesh Biodiversity Board, 2000 - 2004
Member, Spices Board of India Committee on Fixation of Pesticides Residue Limits for Spices under the Codex Alimentarius Commission, 1998-2000

Awards:
Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2004 - 2006

Conferences, Seminars & Talks:

- Presentation on "Tsunami in India's Shorelands: Learning Sustainability from Natural Disaster Victims" - Sustainability 2011: Is it worth it, 8^th International, Interdisciplinary Sustainability Forum, March 8-9, 2011, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA.

- Presentation on "Tea Industry - Managing Future Challenges" at the National Convention on South India Teas 2011, February 26-27, 2011, Coimbatore.

- Presentation on "India and global environmental governance", Workshop on China, India and Global Environmental Governance: The Case of Climate Change, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, 21 February 2011, Leuven, Belgium.

- Presentation on book titled, "Encircling the Seamless", German Development Institute, Bonn, February 18^th 2011.

- Presentation on Implementation of environmental fiscal reforms, Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, Special Event on "Environmental Fiscal Reforms", TERI, February 2, 2011, Delhi.

- Panelist at Policy panel on Climate Change and Common Property Resources Forum, Governing and Managing Common Property Resources in the face of Climate Change, Dr. M. Chinna Reddy Institute, January 12, 2011, Hyderabad.

- Presentation on WTO & Export/Import regulations and foreign trade management, Exploiting Intellectual Property Assets, Valuation of IP Assets and IP-based Financing , Role of TQM, ISO Standards & IP Management, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, December 6 - 10, 2010, Hyderabad.

- Panelist - 'Investment Climate for Climate Investment : Governance', Investment Climate for Climate Investment - fostering business dynamics for inclusive low carbon growth, Lead up event to the International Business Forum Series 2010-12, Inwent- Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, Dec 1-2 , 2010, New Delhi.

- Presentation on "Policies for Environment and Climate Change - Lessons in India's climate change policy formulation", Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, October 11, 2010.

- Presentation on "IPR's in Relation to CCS", Organised by CSLF, October 5-7, 2010, Warsaw, Poland.

- Presentation on "Emission Intensity Reduction, Carbon Markets and Climate Finance - Scenario Analysis for India" at Symposium on "Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development: Forging a Global Innovation Regime for Developing and Sharing Clean Technologies", United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, June 24-25, 2010, Yokohama, Japan.

- Presentation on "CCS Demonstration in Developing Asia - Current Status and Issues", 5th Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), ADB, June 21 - 23, 2010, Manila, Philippines.

- Presentation on "Key Issues in Green Energy for Sustainable Public Transport", Interactive Workshop on "Green Energy- the Way for Sustainable Public Road Transport in India" World Environment Day, June 16, 2010 - The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore

- Presentation on "Sustainability ideas in Indian Culture: Little Traditions and Post modern Adaptations", 7th Workshop of the Forum on Sustainable Technological Development in a Globalising World, Sustainability 2010: The Cultural Dimension, June 09-12, 2010, Berlin, Germany.

- Panelist at session on Future of Carbon Markets - Post Kyoto at Carbon Bazaar - organized by MoEF- GTZ, May 10 -11, 2010, New Delhi.

- Presentation on 'Financing Low Carbon Technologies (LCTs)' at the International Workshop on Corporate Environment Management: From policy to practice- organized jointly by IIMB- ADBI, May 3-6, 2010, Bangalore.

- Presentation on "IP system and its relevance to Business and Industry" and " Getting noticed: The Role of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications", WIPO National seminar on Intellectual Property Management in SME, organized by WIPO - Karnataka State Financial Corporation, March 4-5, 2010, Bangalore.

- Presentation on "Environmental Financing for Ecosystem Services Management - Is transferable development rights a way out" , International Workshop on Ecosystem Services, by Global Land Project, Sapporo Chapter, Hokkaido, held at UNU_IAS, February 25-26, 2010, Yokohama, Japan.

- Presentation of technical report on "Carbon di oxide Capture and Storage : Intellectual Property Rights, Business models and Multilateral Financing Mechanisms for transfer of technology; An exploratory analysis', CCS regional TA meeting of ADB (East Asian Region), January18-20, 2010, Beijing, PRC.

- Presentation on "Nation States, International Relations and Global Public Goods: Conserving for Good?" Homi Bhabha Fellows Conclave, TIFR, November 21, 2009, Mumbai.

- Presentation on "Environmental Financial Architecture: Assessment of Financing Proposals for Climate Change Adaptations", GOI-UNDP Workshop on Climate Change Financing organized by Ministry of Finance, GOI and the UNDP, November 18, 2009, New Delhi.

- Presentation on Climate Financing Approaches and Systems: An Emerging Country Perspective, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University, October 7, 2009, St Petersburg, Russia.

- Presentation on Commodity markets and derivatives, ETA ASCON, September 28-29, 2009, Dubai.

- Presentation at the Expert Group Meeting on SME's, WIPO, September 16-19, 2009, Geneva.

- Presentation on "Maxims of Global Environmental Financial Architecture at International Roundtable of Enabling Financial Architecture for Global Public Goods, IIMB-DFID-GTZ-Royal Norwegian Embassy, August 31- September 1, 2009, New Delhi.

- Presentation of paper on "Economics of Carbon Capture and Storage", Conference on India and International Energy, University of Paris, June 18-20, 2009. (Invited could not make it).

- Presentation on "WTO and TRIPS' and 'Trade and Environment', Refresher/Training program on Contemporary issues in International Trade, Centre for Development Studies, 21 May - 10 June, 2009, Trivandrum.

- Intervention at AIXG seminar, OECD/IEA Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Key Issues for the Post- 2012 Climate Change Framework, 4-5 March 2009 (OECD), Paris.

Significant Publications:

Books:

Encircling the Seamless - India, Climate Change and the Global Commons", Oxford University Press, 2010
Towards an Agro ecosystem Policy for India - Lessons from Two Case Studies, Centre for Environment Education, published by Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2001

Select Papers and Publications: 

- Climate Finance and Global Commons in the light of the G 20 process, Technical Report - 2/EFGPG/2010,IIMB, 2010.

- Carbon di Oxide Capture and Storage: Intellectual Property Rights , Business Models and Multilaterlal  Financing Mechanisms for Transfer of Technology- An Exploratory Analysis, Technical Report -1/ EFGPG/2010, IIMB

- Risk Management Instruments for Debt driven Conservation Efforts: The Case of India's Project Tiger, Ecological Economics, Elsevier, January (2009) 

- Climate Financing Approaches and Systems: An Emerging Country Perspective (2009), Working Paper # 8(E)-2009, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University, Russia

- Valuing Ecosystem Services of Coastal Zones: Challenges for India: Environment Matters (2008), The World Bank, Washington D.C. (First Author: MS Swaminathan)

- 'The Project Tiger Crisis in India: Moving away from the Policy and Economics of Selectivity', Environmental Values, The White Horse Press, 16(2007): 61-77 

- 'Tribals Forests and Resource Conflicts in Kerala, India: The Status Quo of Policy Change', Oxford Development Studies, Routledge, Vol. 34 (3), (2006)

- 'Coastal Resource Complexes of South India: Options for Sustainable Management', Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, 79, 64-73, (2006)

- 'Re-Engineering Biosafety Regulations in India: Towards a Critique of Policy, Law and Prescriptions', (2005), 1/1 Law, Environment and Development Journal.pdf available at http://www.lead-journal.org/content/05001.pdf , School of Oriental and African Studies, London and International Environmental Law Research Centre, Geneva

- "Governmentalization of R&D: Tailoring Coffee Biotechnology in India", Journal of Tailoring Biotechnologies, (2005), The Network University, The Netherlands, Vol. 1 (1), pp 103 - 118.

- 'Conflict of Trade Facilitating Environmental Regulations with Biodiversity Concerns: Case of Coffee Farming Units in India' (2002), World Development, Pergamon, Vol. 30, No. 7. pp. 1123 - 1135,

- 'Environmental Legislation in relation to Landscape Architecture and Industrial Siting', SPACE, Vol.9 (1 & 2), School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, 1994

- 'The Endogenous Management of Semi-Arid Watersheds in Karnataka'(1993 ), Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, Vol.38, (3), pp 171-189.

- 'Implications of International Conventions and Opportunities for Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies to Developing countries', (2000), Proceedings of Ad-hoc Expert Group Meeting on Promotion of New Forms of Financing for Transfer, Development and Application Environmentally Sound Technologies, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific/UNAPCTT, New Delhi, 15-17 November

- Towards an Alternative Agrarian Reform- Tea Plantations in South India',(2004), Economic and Political Weekly, September 4,p 3992-3997 (First Author - Yujiro Hayami)

- 'Economics and Policy Implications India's National Biodiversity Legislation' (2003), Economic and Political Weekly, December 

- Emerging Issues in Global Governance: Multilateral Environment Agreements and the WTO: Are Synergies Desirable? (2007), Policy Monograph No 2, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (co-Author M S Suneetha) 

- 'Economic Implications of Global Conventions and India's Regulatory Environment on Plant Biotechnology Industry', (2004), Research Monograph No. 393, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, November

- 'Joint Forest Management in India: Assessment of Performance and Evaluation of Impacts', (2003) Discussion Paper No 77, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn (Co-author Stefanie Engel) 

- Integrating Global Environment and Development Concerns into Sub- National Forest Policies: The Case of Himachal Pradesh Forest Sector (India) (2010), Technical Report 2 / EFGPG / 2010, IIM Bangalore

- 'Preserving Micro-identities in a World of Directed Change: The Experience of Waynad District; In Narayanan , N.C. (Ed) (2008) State  Natural Resources Conflicts and Chalenges to Governanace, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, pp 165-186

- Investment in Clean Technologies - Economic Analysis of Regimes and Incentives" (1995) - In Hay, John et al (eds) 'Resources Volume for Tertiary Level Education and Training in Environmental Economics, NETTLAP Publication No.14, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific, Bangkok, pp 127 - 142

- 'Tragedy of Commons and Comedy of Common Property Resources', (1991), Economic and Political Weekly, September

- 'Morphology of Grazing an its Crisis in Sedentary Communities' (1988), Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Agriculture, March

- Structural Dimensions of Fodder Crisis-A Village Study in Karnataka state' (1987), Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Agriculture, March

- 'WTO Agriculture Agreement, Common Property Resources and Income Diversification Strategy' (2001) - Economic and Political Weekly, September

Papers under Preparation:

- Structuring Climate Finance for Adaptation Measures in Vulnerable Ecosystems; Lessons from India 

- The Design of a Global Environmental Financial Architecture: Carbon Markets, Environmental Finance and Governance Systems