Anandajit Goswami

Anandajit Goswami has a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy from TERI School of Advanced Studies and Masters in International Trade and Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University where he was also a Ford Foundation Scholar. In the past he has also worked with TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) and TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI-SAS). At TERI SAS, he taught several courses like Art and Sustainability, Economics of Sustainability, Mathematics for Sustainability for eight years. At TERI, he led projects supported by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UKAID, Asian Development Bank in the areas of trade and sustainable development, macroeconomic implications of taxes and subsidies on fossil fuels, economic growth and its implications on energy demand and supply, economic modelling, energy policy and modelling and economics of sustainability. He was also based in United Nations Economic Cooperation for Africa, Addis Ababa as a part of South South Collaboration initiatives of TERI during 2007 – 2009 supported by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

He has extensively been involved with Atomic Energy Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Commerce and Trade, Indian Railways and has advised them in several important policy decisions through his research work and projects. He has led an India – Africa forum at WTO supported by International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva. He has also worked as a leading consultant to Niti Aayog, UNIDO, Copenhagen Consensus Centre, WWF India, WWF Uganda and has advised the Government of Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh in various state level energy policy making for future. He has an extensive work experience of working and advising different state and central government regimes in India and Africa.

He has published extensively for the most reputed journals like Energy Policy, Safety Science, International Journal for Energy Sector Management in the domain of energy policy making, energy risk and safety modelling and has 42 peer reviewed journal publications listed either in Web of Science or Scopus or UGC Care, and 32 international publications. He is a reviewer in journals like - Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Africa Review. He has written 10 books out of this six are fiction books including a novel Science Fiction and Sustainability series and four reference books. He has been supervising two PhD students and has supervised 14 master’s thesis in the past on areas of trade, macroeconomics, economic modelling, art and sustainability. His scholar citations are 252 and H index is 6 between 2016 and 2021. He has been recognised by World Sustainable Development Forum as a POP (Protect Our Planet) ambassador for his contribution to protect the planet for future through his music. He also incubated a voluntary social enterprise in 2017 called TOHRI OPC to work for the society. It is a charitable organization. He has been serving as an Honorary Advisor for the movement of differently abled and visually impaired through the organisation -"Campaign for Differently Abled" and has contributed to the gender rights movement in the country.

Publications

“Virtual Water” and Occam's Razor: An Explanation From the Perspective of Economics of Water
Nilanjan Ghosh, Anandajit Goswami. © 2018. 13 pages.
Virtual Water has been criticized as merely being a jargon camouflaging crop-water requirements. This chapter attempts to contest this argument. From the neoclassical production...
Valuation and Market-Based Pricing of Economic and Ecosystem Services of Water Resources
Nilanjan Ghosh, Anandajit Goswami. © 2018. 32 pages.
This chapter presents a comprehensive review of valuation of water. Though existing literature has a large number of papers on the significant attempts at valuing water, a number...
Water Scarcity and Conflicts: Can Water Futures Exchange in South Asia Provide the Answer?
Nilanjan Ghosh, Anandajit Goswami. © 2018. 24 pages.
This chapter presents the concept of the establishment of a futures market in water in the context of the risk of water availability that Indian agriculture has been facing in...
Economic Growth, Sustainable Development, and the Role of Markets
Nilanjan Ghosh, Anandajit Goswami. © 2018. 19 pages.
This chapter tracks the long path that Development Theory has traversed over the last century. Its origin traces back to the notions of economic growth and development and...
Economics, Environmental Policy, Trade and Sustainability
Nilanjan Ghosh, Anandajit Goswami. © 2018. 20 pages.
Sustainability has to be measured by different tools of valuation. Furthermore, the philosophy behind environmental policy making also decides the way sustainability is perceived...
Sustainability Science for Social, Economic, and Environmental Development
Nilanjan Ghosh, Anandajit Goswami. © 2014. 324 pages.
While the effects of climate change become ever more apparent and pressing, the discussion of sustainable practices and environmental protection is a common overture among the...