SANDEE

Highlights from the SANDEE network

Congratulations to the following SANDEEites for their recent academic achievements and career successes in various fields!

 

 

Awards and recognitions

Former Dasgupta Postdoctoral Fellow at SANDEE and Chair Professor at IIT Bombay, has been selected for the Qimpro Platinum Standard 2022 award (instituted in 1989) under the environment category. The awards recognise excellence in environmental practice.

Former grantee and SANDEE Fellow and inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand – was awarded the 2021 Breakthrough Paradigm Award.

Summer school alumni, received the RBI Scholarship Scheme for faculty members from academic institutions to study adaptation and mitigation in the Institutional Framework Governing Banking in India in Response to Disruptions in Nature.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, awarded the International Sustainability Academy Scholarship (ISA) 2022–2023, Hamburg, Germany (November 2022 to June 2023).

Former grantee, Director of Research, and Professor (Ag. Econ) (Rtd), Kerala Agricultural University – was awarded the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Emeritus Professorship.

SANDEE technical committee member and Professor of Economics at Goa Business School, Goa University– received the State Teacher Awards for Excellence in Higher Education for 2020—2021 from the Government of Goa.

One of the founders of SANDEE, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and author of the global review of The Economics of Biodiversity – was awarded the Kew International Medal, 2021.

Promotions and new appointments

Grantee, was appointed Director of the Evaluation Authority in the Planning Division of Programme Monitoring and Statistics Department, Government of Karnataka, India.

Former SANDEE grantee and summer school alumni, has been appointed as the Executive Director of Center for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA) at Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Former grantee and a SANDEE Technical Committee member, was appointed Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair Professor in Health and Poverty, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh.

Former grantee and summer school alumni,was promoted to the post of Professor of Economics, Tribhuvan University, and appointed the Head, Department of Economics, Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, promoted to the post of Professor of Economics, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, promoted to Professor of Soil Science and Environmental Management in the Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka, and appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Sabaragamuwa University, Sri Lanka

Former grantee, was appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University, Sri Lanka.

A SANDEE advisor and Korstian Distinguished Professor in Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences – was appointed Chair of the Environmental Science and Policy Division, Duke University, USA.

Summer school alumni, appointed as the Executive Director of the Center for Economic Development and Administration (CEDA), Tribhuvan University

Alumni of the research and writing and environmental and energy economics workshops, was appointed Pro-Rector, Yangon University of Economics, Myanmar.

Grantee and summer school alumni, was appointed Assistant Professor of Economics, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, was recently promoted to the post of Professor at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

One of the collaborators for the Cities and Climate Change research project led by SANDEE – was appointed as Professor, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, Promoted to Associate Professor at Tribhuvan University

Former grantee and summer school alumni who also was at SANDEE Secretariat first as Postdoc Fellow and Environmental Economist (2013–2019) – was appointed Professor and Director, School of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Summer school alumni, was appointed Associate Professor of Economics, Tribhuvan University.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, promoted to Associate Professor at Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal

Former grantee, appointed as the Country Representative of the International Union of the World Conservation (IUCN)

Grantee, was appointed Associate Professor, Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Former grantee, was appointed the Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Wayamba University, before moving to the Ministry.

Former grantee and summer school alumni, appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Ocean University, Sri Lanka

PhD completion

Former grantee and summer school alumni, completed PhD from the University of Queensland and now pursuing postdoctoral studies

SANDEE grantee and summer school alumni, completed his PhD in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University, Japan, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Economics at Waseda University. Before moving to Waseda University, he taught economics at the Royal University of Bhutan.

Summer school alumni, completed his PhD from West Virginia University, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Economics, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.

New projects and engagements

SANDEE Advisor and his team at East West University, Bangladesh, received a research grant from the World Bank for developing a methodology for ecosystem services valuation in Bangladesh.

SANDEE Fellow, former grantee, and former Executive Director of SANDEE; currently a Fellow (2022-2023) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University, USA

Current grantee, received postdoctoral fellowship (2022–23) at Duke University, USA

Summer school alumni and former grantee, received ETH-CEDECON PhD fellowship to work on behavioural anomalies and energy efficiency for 2021–2024, jointly granted by the Center for Energy Policy and Economics, Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (CEPE-ETH), and Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University (CEDECON-TU)

Summer school alumni and former grantee, received funding for a project entitled ‘Formation and promotion of farmer producer organizations in J&K’ funded by the Government of India through the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD); also received another project funding to examine ‘Farmers’ willingness to grow organic produce in North-Western Himalayas’ from Indian Council of Social Science Research

Former grantee, SANDEE Fellow and Technical Committee Member, appointed as the Vice Dean, Research at Goa University, India

Current grantee, received postdoctoral fellowship (2022–23) at Boston University, USA

Summer school alumni and former grantee, secured the Visiting Fellowship in Sustainable Energy Transition and travel funds to present research work at Duke University, USA, in 2018