Dr. Prodipto Ghosh is involved in research and teaching at the interface of science, economics, philosophy, and public policy. Currently, he is Distinguished Fellow at TERI. He has earlier been member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Cabinet, Governing Council of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, National Security Advisory Board, PMs Council on Climate Change, G 20 Advisory Group of the Ministry of Finance, and the CAGs Audit Advisory Committee. He has also been Adjunct Faculty at the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, TERI University), and Visiting Fellow at the Smith College, Oxford. He has been an external examiner of Ph.D and M.Phil dissertations at JNU, TISS, IIFT, TERI-SAS, and Department of Philosophy, Delhi University.

 

He was a member of the IAS from 1969 to 2007, when he retired as Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests. He has also held the positions of Economic Advisor and Additional Secretary to the PM, Additional Secretary at the Department of Economic Affairs, and Senior Environment Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila. He was a member of India's negotiating team at the UNFCCC climate change negotiations from 2001 to 2012. He has c. 40 research publications, and several (edited) volumes on climate change and sustainability issues.

 

He has a Ph.D in Economics and Policy Analysis from the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.