Important Positions/Responsibilities Held in the Past

 

v  Advisor to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Delhi and Served the Personality Test Board for Engineering Services Examination 2017, 21-25th August 2017.

 

v  Independent Evaluator for Outcome Evaluation of CPAP (2012-17), UNDP India (2016)

 

v  Independent International Evaluator for Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its Likely Trans-boundary Effects for South Asia, UNEP – RRC.AP (2012- 2013)

 

v  Independent Evaluator for Mid Term Review of CPAP (2012-17), UNDP India (2015)

 

v  Review and Wetting of some components of National Communication to UNFCCC by Government of India, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (2018)

 

v  Independent GEF Consultant to UNDP India (2018-19)

 

v  Independent Terminal Evaluator for Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) of UNDP (2016-17)

 

v  Principal Investigator, UK-India Joint Network on Sustainable Cities and Urbanization in India (2016)

 

v  SDG Consultant for Industrialization & Infrastructure Provision towards SDGs, UNDP, India 2014

 

v  SDG Consultant for Indian Transport, UNDP, India Office, 2013 – 2014

 

v  Coordinator, IGIDR Silver Jubilee Conference on Cities and Sustainability (CCS), Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India 29-30th October 2013

 

v  Climate Change Advisor, Knowledge Partnership Program, IPE and Department of International Development (DFID), United Kingdom (2013)

 

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

 

v  Expert for the review of the Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2013)

 

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

 

v  Sustainability Expert for Bloomberg, global financial data&media Corporate Giant, New York, USA (2011)

 

v  International Consultant on Sustainable Cities for UN-ESCAP, Bangkok for the development of framework for the Sustainability Awards for Cities in Asia and Pacific (2007-08)

 

v  GEF Consultant for the Preparation of full GEF proposal on Sustainable Mobility in Indian Cities, UNDP and Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India (2006-07)

 

v  Senator at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India (September 2008 till February 2010, responsible for academic and developmental planning of the Institute

 

v  Professor In-Charge for the Module of Environment under the project “Roles of Agriculture” a multi-national research initiative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN-FAO), Italy during 2001-2003, responsible for coordination and planning research module. 

 

v  Journal Editor (Guest Editor for Special Issues relating to Urban Environmental Management) for International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland since 2002

 

v  International Consultant to UNEP; UNDP; UNU; the World Bank; IGES; UN-ESCAP; GEF; UN-FAO; MoUD-Government of India