Honours and Awards
Special Mention: I have been nominated by Government of India to represent the country at the (a) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] special meeting [held in March 2009 at Oslo, Norway], and (b) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] special meeting [held in April 2009 at Cairo, Egypt].
Honorary Member Secretary, Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing [Knowledge Forum], http://fgks.insince November 2018.
Member, Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Regional Sciences, Springer.
External Member, Academic Council of National Institute of Industrial Engineering [NITIE], Mumbai 2015-18.
Co-Convener, Committee to prepare B.S., Economics programme at IIT Bombay.
Member, Project Advisory Committee, Solar Expert Group on Enabling R&D (SEER-EG), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India 2014-17.
Member, Advisory Board of IRCC, IIT Bombay, 2014-17.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Industrial Statistics, Central Statistical Organisation [CSO], Government of India, 2015 onwards.
Member, Board of Studies for Appointments for Examination Work, Management Studies, University of Mumbai, 2015-17.
Member, Sub-Committee to formulate strategy for technology intensive manufacturing exports from India, 12thFive Year Plan, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, 2011-12.
Coordinator for India in the Academic Network for Development of Asia [ANDA], Nagoya University, Japan with financial support from JSPS, Tokyo, 2010-13.
Convener of Conference and Honorary Treasurer, Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing http:://fgks.in, a web base society of Scientists, Technologists and Social Scientists, since 2010.
President, Academy of International Business AIB–India Chapter, since February 2006 to April 2012.
Member, Expert Group on Climate Change Impacts in India, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, 2009 to 2012.
Member, Project Evaluation Groupon State S & T Councils, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2009-2012.
Member, Advisory Board, Environmental Studies Centre, Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration [YASHDA], Pune, since March 2005.
Appointed as a Reviewer for the contributions to the Working Group II on the Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change”, to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] –international body dealing with global climate change concerns.
Invited to deliver a lecture as a UGC Visiting Professor, Madras University School of Economics, University of Madras, Chennai, India on March 5, 2008.
Invited to give a keynote lecture on “WTO and Engineering Profession”, College of Engineering, Jalgaon, Maharashtra on the Engineers Day Celebration held on 15thSeptember 2005.
Member, Executive Board of the Academy of International Business [AIB] –India Chapter, January 2004to February 2006.
Invited to participate in Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics [CAPORDE] held at the University of Cambridge during July 4 to 17, 2002.
Awarded Post-doctoral fellowship by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies [UNU/IAS], Tokyo, Japan to work on “Economic Reforms, Technological Development and Sustainable Industrial Growth: The Case of India”. This is a part of the larger project on India’s Sustainable Development Framework at UNU/IAS. The period of post-doctoral fellowship was for ten months [October 30, 2000 to August 31, 2001].
Affiliated with Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan as a visiting Research Fellow from December 1, 2000 to August 31, 2001. During this affiliation I worked on a paper “Liberalisation and Differential Conduct and Performance of Firms: The Case of Automobile Sector in India”.
Had been awarded Ph.D., Internship at the United Nations University/Institute of New Technologies [UNU/INTECH], Maastricht, The Netherlands. The Internship was for a period of three months beginning April 1, 1996 to work on ‘Technology Acquisition, De-regulation and Competitiveness: A study of Indian Automobile Industry’.
Associated with the Institute of Economic Growth on Indian Council of Social Science Research [ICSSR] Doctoral Fellowship from July 1985 till August 1989
