Citizenship India Ex-spouse Vandana Shiva Fields Natural environment | Name Jayanta Bandyopadhyay Nationality India | |
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Residence Kolkata, West Bengal, India Education Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | ||
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: জয়ন্ত বন্দোপাধ্যায়; b. 31 December 1947, Kolkata, India), is an observer, analyst and author. He is now a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata. He is a Former Professor of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. An internationally renowned professional on public interest research and environmental policy, Bandyopadhyay has authored fourteen critically acclaimed books and monographs, in addition to 130 papers and articles. He has delivered invited lectures in many parts of the world.
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Early life and education
Bandyopadhyay was born in Kolkata, India in 1947. He received a Master of Technology degree in 1969 and PhD in 1976 from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. After obtaining his doctorate, he turned his academic interest to the interdisciplinary area of Science and the natural Environment. He soon got deeply interested in researching the reasons behind the forest rights movement in the Indian Himalaya, widely known as the Chipko Andolan. His professional life soon started to revolve around environment and environmental movements.In 1977 he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, as a visiting post-doctoral fellow in the area of science and economic policy.
Career
Bandyopadhyay is closely associated with environmental research in South Asia, especially on issues related to the rivers emerging from the Himalaya. He has been a member of the faculty at IIM Bangalore, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, the International Academy of Environment (IAE), Geneva. In 1997 he was invited by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) to establish the Centre for Development and Environment Policy. He retired from his position at IIMC and spent a year (2015) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Visiting Professor. He is adviser to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) New Delhi, Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, Medford, USA.