Rohit Jindal

Biography

Rohit Jindal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at MacEwan University School of Business. Dr. Jindal has a PhD from Michigan State University (USA) and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh (UK). He has previously worked at University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and in the Department of Resource Economics at University of Alberta. He is a recipient of the inaugural Banting Fellowship of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the highest level research award for postdoctoral work in Canada. Among his other grants include research awards and fellowships from the University of Alberta, Michigan State University, the World Agroforestry Centre, the University of Edinburgh, Australian National University, and the Shell Foundation. Dr. Jindal has published his research in top international journals such as World Development, Land Use Policy, and Ecological Economics. He works on the crosscutting themes of international environmental policy and sustainable resource management that affect businesses, development organizations, and local communities. Rohit has also consulted on projects funded by the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the German Bank for Reconstruction (Kfw).

Research Interest

Applied econometrics/statistics: Using advanced econometric and statistical tools to conduct feasibility assessment and impact evaluation of environmental management projects. Environmental policy & resource economics: A key research area especially the interaction between land use change and climate change mitigation. Main focus on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and on international carbon markets. Experimental and behavioural economics: Incentives – both monetary and non-monetary play an important role in shaping human behaviour. Within this rapidly expanding field, focus on field experiments in different contexts across North America, Africa and Asia.