- Kirit Parikh
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR),Mumbai ,India . He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor toUnited Nations Development Programme from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of theEconomic Advisory Council (EAC) of thePrime Minister of India ,Atal Bihari Vajpayee , and had been a member of EAC of Prime MinistersRajiv Gandhi , V.P.Singh,Chandra Shekhar andP.V. Narasimha Rao .He completed his B.E. in Civil Engineering from
Gujarat University , India in 1956. In 1957 he did his M.Tech. (Structures) fromIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has a D.Sc. in Civil Engineering and a Master's Degree in Economics from MIT, USA. [http://www.igidr.ac.in/~kirit/qual.htm Qualifications] ] He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has been the editor of "India Development Reports" which provide a non-governmental assessment of India's development and policy options. Apart from these, he has been a member of numerous other boards. [http://www.igidr.ac.in/~kirit/member.htm Memberships and Appointments] ] He has also authored and co-authored more than 15 books in the areas of planning, water resource management, appropriate technology for housing, optimum requirement for fertilizers, energy systems, national and international food policies, trade policies, general equilibrium modeling and natural resources accounting. He has also published numerous articles. [http://www.igidr.ac.in/~kirit/publ.htm Publications] ]References
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* [http://www.igidr.ac.in/facu/kirit.htm His biography on the IGIDR Page]
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