Honours and Academic Recognition

 

 

   Appointed as Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (2015)

  Invited as an Expert at the UNDP’s Country Program Management Board (CPMB) meeting, 19th January 2017, UNDP India Office, New Delhi

  Invited as Discussant for an Interactive talk by Ms. Kristalina Georgieva on “Multilateralism in a Protectionist World and Challenges for Green Infrastructure/Climate Finance”, CEO of the World Bank, organized by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), 28th February 2017, RBI Convention Hall, Mumbai

  Invited as an Expert at the High Profile Interactive session on “Doing Business with Ecuador – The Gateway to Latin America” with the Ambassador of Ecuador, organized by World Trade Center, Mumbai, 19th December 2016

  Invited as an Expert at the Energy-Environment Group Outcome Evaluation Board meeting of UNDP, UNDP India Office, 25th November 2016

  Core Member of the organization Team for the Workshop on Mumbai Urban Observatory, Organized by Mumbai Chamber of Commerce and Industries and RCUK-NIUA, 5-6 December 2016, Mumbai

  Member of the Advisory Board, AIMS College of Engineering, Mummidivaram, Andhra Pradesh, 2017

  Selected for the Secondment of faculty members by Government of India (MHRD) to teach “Introduction to Natural Resources Economics” at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand during January-May 2018 semester.

  Winner of a Fellowship by UN-WIDER and invited to make an invited lecture at the UNU-WIDER International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Helsinki, Finland 28-29th September 2012

  Appointed as Visiting Professor by Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand for a period of January – May 2018 in the Department of Development and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Development.

  Appointed as Executive Committee Member of International Conference on Water Environment and Technology (WET 2019), Japan (2019)

  Member, National Advisory Committee, National Conference in Geo-informatics in Water Management, Organized by SIES Indian Institute of Environmental Management, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, 1st December 2018.

  Member, Executive Committee, Water and Environmental WET Conference organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE), Ehime University, Japan, July 14-15, 2018

  Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India nominated Member of the Court of Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India (Member, Board of Governors)

  Nominated and Deputed by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand to teach and guide graduate students of AIT during August-December 2012 Semester

  Invited Expert and Key Note Speaker, First Asia and Pacific Mayor’s Forum on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Development, Ulsan City, South Korea, 21-23 April 2008, UN-ESCAP and the City of Ulsan.

  Rapporteur for the session on “Action Plan for Future Activities”, Kitakyushu Network Meeting  of UN-ESCAP, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2-4 August, 2004  - a preparatory meeting for the United Nations Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development (UN-MCED) held in South Korea during March 2005

  Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of Korean Society of Environmental Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulan, South Korea, May 2008.

  Presidential Address (on the special invitation of the Present of the University) at GITAM University on Environmental Protection – Changing Trends and the Present Day Needs at GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India, on 15th July 2009.

  LEAD Fellow, Leadership in Environment and Development, COHORT-7, India

  Panel Expert and Advisor, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Government of India

  Sustainability Expert for Bloomberg, global financial data and media Corporate, New York, USA, 2011

  Expert for the review of Corporate Social Responsibility Report-2011 of the Global Networking Equipment Corporate Giant – CISCO Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, USA, 2012

  Re-elected as International Member on the Executive Committee of Water and Environment (WET) Conference, 14-15 July 2018 organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE) 2018

  Re-elected as International Member on the Executive Committee of Water and Environment (WET) Conference organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE) 2017

  Elected as International Member on the Executive Committee of Water and Environment (WET) Conference organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE) 2016

  Book review panel member for Routledge India

  Book review panel member for Springer India

  Reviewer for Pedagogical Course on Solid Waste Management developed by NIT Warangal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Ministry of HRD, Government of India (2016)

  Book review panel member, Sage Publishers, New Delhi

  Book review panel member, Oxford University Press, New Delhi

  Book review panel member, Springer, New Delhi

  Editorial Board Member, “Current World Environment”, an international journal published by CWE Journals published by Enviro Research Publishers

  Member, Scientific Board of Civil & Environmental Engineers, International Institute of Engineers (IIEng)

  Panel of Subject Experts for Selections, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, Mumbai, India (2014)

  Member, World’s WHO IS WHO published by Morquis, USA

  Expert for the review of the Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – 2012-13

  Editorial Board Member, “The Open Transportation Journal” published by Bentham Open Since 2009

  Winner of Fellowship for Best Paper from Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank for the participation in the “International Workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development”, Alexandria, Egypt, 10-13 May 2008, organized by the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank

  Series of Invited Lectures/Talks at various Universities and Institutions of South Korea (2007-2008) under their prestigious Brain Pool & Brain Korea Initiatives of Govt of S. Korea

  International Peer Reviewer for the Netherlands Foundation for WOTRO Science for Science for Global Development, Netherlands

  Paper titled “Multi-criteria Approach for the Selection of Alternative Options for Delhi Transport System”, Transport Research, Part A – Policy and Practice, Vol. 37 (8), pp: 717 – 729 (2003) 4th most downloaded article from Elsevier’s TOP 25

  Paper titled “Environmentally Sustainable Urban Transportation – Comparative Analysis of Local Emission Mitigation Strategies vis-à-vis GHG Mitigation Strategies”, Transport Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp: 245-254 (2005) 9th most downloaded article from Elsevier’s TOP 25  

  Fast track Young Scientist Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2001)