A Damodaran

Professor Damodaran did his doctoral studies in Economics and has held academic and professional assignments abroad, including visiting faculty positions. He was Environmental Fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley under the US-Asia Environment Programme in 1994. He has also held Visiting Faculty positions at the University of Bonn, Germany, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, and the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University in Russia. In  2012 he was   appointed Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan. As a Scholar in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA in 2015 he worked on the convergence on Environmental Economics and Cultural Economics.

Damodaran led the initiative on Biodiversity Financing for the United Nation’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)  in 2011 which has morphed into the UNDP driven BIOFIN Project. Since 2015 he has been  the Chairperson of the GOI Technical Advisory Committee of BIOFIN India.

He was part of India’s delegation to CBD to negotiate biodiversity Financing issues in COP 11.