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Kirit
Shantilal Parikh
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CV Kirit Shantilal Parikh Former
Member, Planning Commission, Government of India Chairman,
Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi
Former
(Founder) Director (Vice Chancellor), Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
(IGIDR), Mumbai – An Advanced Research Institute He
was honoured with Padma Bushan by the President of India in March 2009. He
is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Dr
Kirit S. Parikh has a Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering and
a Master's Degree in Economics from MIT, USA. He has been a Professor
of Economics since 1967. He
was the Chairman of the Integrated Energy Policy Committee, Planning Commission.
He was a Member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) of the Prime Ministers
of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Chandra Shekhar, V.P.Singh
and Rajiv Gandhi. In the past he had also been a member of the National Committee
for Environmental Planning & Co-ordination, the National Committee on Science
and Technology and the Fuel Policy Committee. In
2003 he was made honorary life member of the International Association of Agricultural
Economists (on an average given to two persons a year in the world). He had been
president of The Indian Econometric Society and Gujarat Economic Association.
He is on the governing board of many development research Institutes in India.
He has also been Chairman of some of these. He is the Chairman of the Indian National
Committee (India NMO Committee) for the India-IIASA (International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis) Programme. Dr.
Parikh had been in the past on the Board of Directors of a number of major industrial
firms and financial institutions. Among these are Indian Petro-Chemicals Limited,
Life Insurance Corporation, Industrial Development Bank of India and State Bank
of India. In
1978 he was given the "Vikram Sarabhai Award" for Systems Analysis and
Management. In 1999 he was given the "Visveswaraya Award" by the Engineers' Foundation
in Kolhapur. He is also a recipient of "Nayudamma Award" for contribution
to the welfare of mankind through developments in the fields of Economics &
Energy in February 2005. He
was honoured as the most distinguished and illustrious alumni of the decade from
India by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA in September, 2007.
He was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Kharagpur in September, 2007. He was felicitated as one of the engineering
personalities by the Indian Engineering Congress, December 2006 In
1997-98, on sabbatical leave from the IGIDR where he was Founder Director from
1986 till 2000, he was Special Economic Adviser to the Administrator, United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), New York. From 1980-86, as Program Leader of the
Food and Agricultural Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA), Austria, he directed a research programme involving 300 person
years of efforts of more than 100 researchers from around the world. From 1960-80,
he was Professor of Economics (and sometimes Head) of the Indian Statistical Institute
(ISI), New Delhi. From 1969-71, as Director of Program Analysis Group (PAG), Department
of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, he set up PAG to provide economic,
operation research and management advice to different units of the DAE. From 1964-67
he was a Research Associate at the Center for International Studies, MIT. Dr.
Parikh had been the editor of "India Development Report" which provides
a non-governmental assessment of India's development and policy options. Dr
Parikh has authored, co-authored and edited 29 books in the areas of
- planning,
- engineering
- water
resource management,
- appropriate
technology for housing,
- optimum
requirement for fertilizers,
- energy
systems and policy,
- national
and international food policies,
- trade
policies,
- general
equilibrium modeling,
- environmental
governance and
- natural
resources accounting.
He
has also published numerous articles. |
