Professor (Dr.) Jyoti K Parikh is Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi. She was a member of the Prime Ministers Advisory Panel on Climate Council (2008-2014). She was a recipient of Nobel prize given to the IPCC authors in 2007. She was also co recipient of Zayed prize given to Millennium Assessment authors. She served as senior professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. She also worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria and served as senior energy consultant at the Planning Commission, New Delhi (1978-80). She was a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of UNU, Tokyo 1995-96. She was the Acting Director of IGIDR for 1997-98. She has experience for nearly forty years on energy and environment problems of the developing countries. Publications include nearly 200 project research papers and 25 books and monographs in the area of energy economics, Climate Change and modeling, energy technology assessment, rural energy, power sector, environment economics, natural resource Management and Climate Change.She has served as energy consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, European Economic Community, Brussels and UN agencies such as UNIDO, FAO, UNU, and UNESCO, Environment Consultant to UNDP, World Bank and so on. She has guided sixteen PhD/Masters theses in the environment, energy and climate area, the topics ranged from vulnerability and adaptation of agriculture, forestry, power sector, construction sector, and carbon emission baselines for power, transport, cement and steel sector.