Prof. Vinod Kumar Sharma- An Environmentalist from ASIA

Prof. Sharma is a Civil and Environmental Engineer with a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He started his professional career in 1982 and since then has worked on almost all positions of the academic ladder including Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Senior Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Head of Department and Dean. As the Dean of IGIDR he had an overall responsibility of Institute’s Academic (Master's and Ph.D.) programs and Student Affairs. He has contributed to policy making at the state, national and international levels.

Prof. Sharma has a wide range of experience in India and abroad. He has worked at the World Bank, Washington DC, USA and at the National Institute of the Environment Ministry of Japan, Tsukuba. He has completed several research projects and consultancy assignments for the UN and other international organizations including the UNEP, UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-ESCAP, CREED, IIED, the World Bank, ICEF, SICI, JBIC, APO, AIST, JETRO, ERIA, IDE, and Japan Environment Agency. His work for Indian organizations includes that for Indian Ministries, Government Departments, Planning Commission, Corporate Sector and NGOs. He has organized, presented papers and participated in several academic events in India and abroad.

Prof. Sharma’s has more than 125 publications to his credit, which include research articles in peer reviewed International and Indian journals, articles in newspapers and magazines, books and policy reports. He is on the editorial board and a peer reviewer of international journals published from Germany, The Netherlands, USA and Japan.

His major initiatives on sustainable development issues are: International Journal for Sustainable Innovations (IJSI) - A peer reviewed inter-disciplinary journal; Savitarka - A mass awareness magazine on development issues; and, International Symposium on a Sustainable Future (ISSF) - A regular event. Prof. Sharma is the Editor and Managing Editor of IJSI, Chief Editor of Savitarka and Chairman of the ISSF event series. He is also the founding President of the Indian Society for Life Cycle Assessment (ISLCA) and Member of UNEP’s International Life Cycle Board and an International Expert Work Group Member of the ERIA.

Prof. Sharma's work includes technological, socio-economic, and policy aspects of Environment and Sustainable Development; Energy Sustainability and various Energy Forms including
and Biomass Energy; Pollution of Air, Water, Solid Waste, Land and Noise; Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change; Natural and Environmental Resource Accounting; Trade and Environment Linkages; Life Cycle Assessment; Civil and Environmental Engineering Infrastructures; Issues in Rural Areas and Urbanization.
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Mailing Address
Dr. Vinod Kumar Sharma,
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR),
Gen. A.K.Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (E) Mumbai - 400 065 (INDIA)
E-mail
vks@igidr.ac.in

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