Dr Bandyopadhyay is an economist and policy specialist with more than two decades of academic, policy research and administrative experiences. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow(IIML), he was engaged with International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) as a Principal Policy Adviser. In this capacity he has also been leading the work on UNEP India Mission on Measurement of SDG 12. c.1. Besides that, he was associated with India Consensus Project administered jointly by Tata Trust and Copenhagen Consensus Centre, USA. Till recently, he was serving as Associate Professor and Programme Director at the Department of Business and Sustainability at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) School of Advanced Studies and was also the founding Head of the Department. He was also an Adjunct Senior Fellow with TERI.
He is currently a Member of FICCI Task Force on ESG, Member of the Steering Committee of Asia Pacific Resource Centre (APRC) of the UN Global Compact Network of India(UNGCNI) and a member of the Board of Directors of Enterprise Incubation Centre at IIML. He is also currently engaged in research under the aegis of Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future Project, administered jointly by Yale University, Fletchers School at Tufts University and Sridath Ramphal Centre at the University of West Indies and involves studying the implication of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on Steel Sector in India. His notable engagement in the past includes serving as a member of the sub-group on transport sector formed by Government of India for providing inputs to the India Chapter of the Energy Technology Perspectives 2010 of International Energy Agency (IEA); columnist on energy sector with Financial Express; visiting faculty with United Nations University (UNU-IIST) and Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi; visiting scholar with Asian Growth Institute (AGI), Japan under Japanese Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS); transport specialist for a ADB commissioned project on Low Carbon Transport in India and China; invitee consultant with IEA/OECD; Economic officer
with Finance Commission, Government of India and Research Officer to erstwhile UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Development.
Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s is the recipient of Wipro Earthian Faculty Mentor Award in 2018-19 and his research has been published in some of the leading scholarly journals with very high impact factors that include Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Economic and Political Weekly, among others He has supervised 2 PhD thesis and co-supervised one FPM thesis at IIML all of whom have been awarded final degree.
His current areas of teaching and research interests include- ESG, Impact Investing, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Decarbonisation Strategies in Steel Sector, Design of Carbon Markets, Business Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Transport and Climate Change, Sustainability in Management Education, and Circular Economy.
He is an alumnus of Centre of Economic Studies and Planning, JNU from where he has completed his PhD in Economics. He is also an alumnus of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, Cambridge University and Babson College, USA from where he has completed programmes on business sustainability and entrepreneurship respectively.
