Hippu Nathan

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan is an engineer-turned development researcher with an M.Tech. in Thermal Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Ph.D. in Development Studies from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Prior to joining IRMA, he was with National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore in the Energy Environment Programme since February 2012. He had industry experience as a software professional at Infosys Limited, Bangalore (during 1998-99) and Geometric Global, Mumbai (during 2001-04). As a part of civil society interventions through Peoples Foundation for Scientific Socio Economic Development (PeFSSED; www.pefssed.org), he has been involved in education, health, and livelihood issues in urban slums and remote villages of Maharashtra, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh.

Dr. Nathan has won the Elsevier-National Academy of Sciences, India Young Scientist Award 2017 in Social Sciences. He was the Subir Chowdhury Post-doctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics for the academic year 2016-17. Montreal during 2019. Dr. Nathan is also one of the winners in the GDN Awards and Medals Competition 2013 in the category of Outstanding Research on Development. He is a recipient of Young Scientist Award conferred at Odisha Environment Congress-2012. In the doctoral years, his research papers have received best paper awards in four colloquiums: Doctoral Colloquim-2010 (IIM, Ahmedabad), COSMAR-2007 and 2008 (IISc, Bangalore), and SCODER-2007 (IGIDR, Mumbai). Dr. Nathans most significant research contributions areConceptualized and developed frameworks for both, structuring and selection of sustainable development indicators`; in a co-authored works he proposed an alternative approach to measure human development index and conceived a novel method to assess energy poverty.

Current Areas of Interest:

• Economic measurement, sustainable use of resources, energy, water, human development, disarmament, world peace, and socio-political reforms.

Journal (Article)

• Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan (2020), "Towards a new approach in measuring energy poverty: Household level analysis of urban India", Energy Policy, 140(2020)

• Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan and Srijit Mishra (2019), "Human Impact Assessment", Chapter 16, Cyclone Fani: Damage, Loss, and Need Assessment, pp: 159-173. Government of Odisha in collaboration with Asian Development Bank jointly with United Nations India and The World Bank. Jointly with Srijit Mishra. Report available on International Labour Organization

Policy Briefs

• Srijit Mishra, Sarthak Gaurav, and Hippu Salk Krislte Nathan "Gross and Per Capita District Domestic Product for Odisha, 2018-19: A Baseline prior to FANI", Policy Brief #8, Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies, Jun 02, 2019.

Book Review published in print digital media other than journals

• Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan (2019) Book Review on Gulshan Dietl, India and the Global Game of Gas Pipelines. London and New York, NY: Routledge, India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 75(1), pp. 114-117.

Workshop

International

• Prof. Hippu Salk Kristle presented paper entitled "Towards a new approach in Measuring Energy Poverty: Household-level analysis of Urban India" during one-day workshop on Dynamic Economic models for Policy Analysis at the Business School, University of Hull (UK); September 12, 2019.

National

• Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan Presented paper on Resource Sufficiency: An Indispensable Strategy for Sustainable Development at PAGE (Partnership for Action on Green Economy) Workshop organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN bodies including ILO, UNDP, UNIDO, UNITAR, and The Energy and Resources Institure (TERI) during Consultation for Western and Southern States of India: Towards Inclusive Green Economies at The International Centre, Goa; August 12, 2019.

Conference

International

• Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan Presented paper on Ethical Reflection of Choice in Development Project at conference on Development Ethics Practice at the Institute of Education, University College London (UK) for the Annual HDCA (Human Development and Capability Association); September 8, 2019.

• Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan Presented paper on Urban Institutional Rooftop PV Electricity: is this the answer to the solar question? under a session on Energy Geographies` at RGS-IBG (Royal Geographic Society in association with Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2019, organized at the RGS premises and the Imperial College of London (UK); August 28-30, 2019

National

• Hippu Salk., presented a paper in national conferfence "Sustainability of Solar Microgrid and Home-lighting Systems" at the IEEE Power and Energy Society Student Congress 2018 held at BEC, Bagalkot, Karnataka, Nov 2, 2018.

Working Papers

• WP#289 Towards a New Approach in Measuring Energy Poverty: Household Level Analysis of Urban India
  Author(s): Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, Lakshmikanth Hari
  Mar-2019