Prof. Ajay A. Deshpande is currently the Adjunct Professor at the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He served as the Expert Member, National Green Tribunal (www.greentribunal.gov.in ) during March 2013 to July 2017. He was a part-time member of the Compliance Review Panel (www.compliance.adb.org ) of Asian Development Bank, Manila (July 2027-July 2022). He has also worked in several senior positions in Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation. He has also worked as Environmental Specialist at Water and Power Consultancy Services (I) Ltd (WAPCOS) at New Delhi from 1992-1997. He was Chairman of the committee which was constituted under orders of NGT for Monitoring the compliance of HW regulations in the country. He has worked for several international organisations including AIIB and UN-ESCAP.
Dr. Deshpande is an Environmental professional with more than 30 years hand-on experience in Environmental Pollution Control and Governance, Environmental Safeguards, Environmental Policy and Planning, environmental remedy and remediation, Urban and Industrial Environment Management, circular economy, and Sustainable Development. He has 360-degree experience of working in various capacities in the field of environment including consulting organisation, environment regulator, development organisation and environmental review/justice, and teaching.
Dr. Deshpande presently runs tow courses, namely, PS-625: Environment Governance and Development , and PS-628: Circular Economy.
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Research Area: Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
Description: These research topics are part of overall environmental governance approaches which are being deliberated. India is experiencing rapid changes in its environmental regimes and policy approaches which are many times advoc and also as a response to particular challenges or specific judicial orders. However, any such interventions need to be based on evidence based policy studies. It is proposed that the research work would be carried out both on theoretical framework and also using the field level studies including stakeholder engagement.
