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.