Dr Kirit S. Parikh is the Chairman of Integrated Research and Action for Development. He was honoured with Padma Bushan (third-highest Civilian Award) by the President of India in March 2009 and shared the Nobel Prize in 2007 given to IPCC authors. He was a Member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) of five Prime Ministers of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Chandra Shekhar, V.P.Singh and Rajiv Gandhi. He was Member of Planning Commission (2004-09) in charge of Energy, Water and Perspective Planning. He was the principal architect of India’s official Integrated Energy Policy. H e is M.Tech. from IIT-Kharagpur, Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering from MIT, USA and also an S.M. in Economics from MIT. He has been Professor of Economics since 1967 and was founder Director of IGIDR. He has authored, co-authored and edited 30 books in the areas of planning,energy and Power systems, Energy, Energy modelling and planning, energy policy, energy economics, inclusive growth and strategies for low carbon development.