Honours and Academic Recognition

☼ Appointed as Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (2015)

☼ Invited as an Expert at the UNDP’s Country Program Management Board (CPMB) meeting, 19^th January 2017, UNDP India Office, New Delhi

☼ Invited as Discussant for an Interactive talk by Ms. Kristalina Georgieva on “Multilateralism in a Protectionist World and Challenges for Green Infrastructure/Climate Finance”, CEO of the World Bank, organized by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), 28^th February 2017, RBI Convention Hall, Mumbai

☼ Invited as an Expert at the High Profile Interactive session on “Doing Business with Ecuador – The Gateway to Latin America” with the Ambassador of Ecuador, organized by World Trade Center, Mumbai, 19^th December 2016

☼ Invited as an Expert at the Energy-Environment Group Outcome Evaluation Board meeting of UNDP, UNDP India Office, 25^th November 2016

☼ Core Member of the organization Team for the Workshop on Mumbai Urban Observatory, Organized by Mumbai Chamber of Commerce and Industries and RCUK-NIUA, 5-6 December 2016, Mumbai

☼ Member of the Advisory Board, AIMS College of Engineering, Mummidivaram, Andhra Pradesh, 2017

☼ Selected for the Secondment of faculty members by Government of India (MHRD) to teach “Introduction to Natural Resources Economics” at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand during January-May 2018 semester.

☼ Winner of a Fellowship by UN-WIDER and invited to make an invited lecture at the UNU-WIDER International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Helsinki, Finland 28-29^th September 2012

☼ Appointed as Visiting Professor by Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand for a period of January – May 2018 in the Department of Development and Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources and Development.

☼ Appointed as Executive Committee Member of International Conference on Water Environment and Technology (WET 2019), Japan (2019)

☼ Member, National Advisory Committee, National Conference in Geo-informatics in Water Management, Organized by SIES Indian Institute of Environmental Management, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, 1^st December 2018.

☼ Member, Executive Committee, Water and Environmental WET Conference organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE), Ehime University, Japan, July 14-15, 2018

☼ Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India nominated Member of the Court of Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India (Member, Board of Governors)

☼ Nominated and Deputed by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand to teach and guide graduate students of AIT during August-December 2012 Semester

☼ Invited Expert and Key Note Speaker, First Asia and Pacific Mayor’s Forum on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Development, Ulsan City, South Korea, 21-23 April 2008, UN-ESCAP and the City of Ulsan.

☼ Rapporteur for the session on “Action Plan for Future Activities”, Kitakyushu Network Meeting of UN-ESCAP, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2-4 August, 2004 - a preparatory meeting for the United Nations Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development (UN-MCED) held in South Korea during March 2005

☼ Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of Korean Society of Environmental Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulan, South Korea, May 2008.

☼ Presidential Address (on the special invitation of the Present of the University) at GITAM University on Environmental Protection – Changing Trends and the Present Day Needs at GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India, on 15^th July 2009.

☼ LEAD Fellow, Leadership in Environment and Development, COHORT-7, India

☼ Panel Expert and Advisor, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Government of India

☼ Sustainability Expert for Bloomberg, global financial data and media Corporate, New York, USA, 2011

☼ Expert for the review of Corporate Social Responsibility Report-2011 of the Global Networking Equipment Corporate Giant – CISCO Systems Inc., San Jose, CA, USA, 2012

☼ Re-elected as International Member on the Executive Committee of Water and Environment (WET) Conference, 14-15 July 2018 organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE) 2018

☼ Re-elected as International Member on the Executive Committee of Water and Environment (WET) Conference organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE) 2017

☼ Elected as International Member on the Executive Committee of Water and Environment (WET) Conference organized by Japan Society on Water Environment (JSWE) 2016

☼ Book review panel member for Routledge India

☼ Book review panel member for Springer India

☼ Reviewer for Pedagogical Course on Solid Waste Management developed by NIT Warangal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Ministry of HRD, Government of India (2016)

☼ Book review panel member, Sage Publishers, New Delhi

☼ Book review panel member, Oxford University Press, New Delhi

☼ Book review panel member, Springer, New Delhi

☼ Editorial Board Member, “Current World Environment”, an international journal published by CWE Journals published by Enviro Research Publishers

☼ Member, Scientific Board of Civil & Environmental Engineers, International Institute of Engineers (IIEng)

☼ Panel of Subject Experts for Selections, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, Mumbai, India (2014)

☼ Member, World’s WHO IS WHO published by Morquis, USA

☼ Expert for the review of the Working Group II contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – 2012-13

☼ Editorial Board Member, “The Open Transportation Journal” published by Bentham Open Since 2009

☼ Winner of Fellowship for Best Paper from Global Environment Facility (GEF) of the World Bank for the participation in the “International Workshop on Evaluating Climate Change and Development”, Alexandria, Egypt, 10-13 May 2008, organized by the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank

☼ Series of Invited Lectures/Talks at various Universities and Institutions of South Korea (2007-2008) under their prestigious Brain Pool & Brain Korea Initiatives of Govt of S. Korea

☼ International Peer Reviewer for the Netherlands Foundation for WOTRO Science for Science for Global Development, Netherlands

☼ Paper titled “Multi-criteria Approach for the Selection of Alternative Options for Delhi Transport System”, Transport Research, Part A – Policy and Practice, Vol. 37 (8), pp: 717 – 729 (2003) 4^th most downloaded article from Elsevier’s TOP 25

☼ Paper titled “Environmentally Sustainable Urban Transportation – Comparative Analysis of Local Emission Mitigation Strategies vis-à-vis GHG Mitigation Strategies”, Transport Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp: 245-254 (2005) 9^th most downloaded article from Elsevier’s TOP 25

☼ Fast track Young Scientist Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (2001)