Dr Bandyopadhyay brings with himself more than two decades of academic, policy research
and administrative experiences. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow, 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 is currently a Member of FICCI Task Force on ESG, Member of the Advisory Committee
on Green Entrepreneurship Council, CII Godrej Green Business Centre; 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. In the recent past, he was 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 (ETP)
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 the aegis of the Kakenhi Grant of the 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 factor that include Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Annual Review of Environment
and Resources, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Economic and Political
Weekly, among others
His current areas of teaching and research interests include- Carbon Border Adjustment
Mechanism (CBAM), Decarbonisation Strategies in Steel Sector, Carbon Markets, ESG and
various aspects of Business Sustainability.
He is an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) from where he has completed his
PhD. 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.
