A Damodaran

Biography

Professor Damodaran did his doctoral studies in Economics and has held academic and professional assignments abroad, including visiting faculty positions. He was Environmental Fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley under the US-Asia Environment Programme in 1994. He has also held Visiting Faculty positions at the University of Bonn, Germany, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan, University of Wageningen, Netherlands, and the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University in Russia. More recently, he has been appointed Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan.

Research Interest

Professor Damodaran’s research areas cover Environmental Economics and Financing, Cultural Economics, IPR Economics with reference to Transfer of Technology and Internationalization of IPRs, Institutional Dimensions of Global Public Goods and Global Environmental Resources and Commodity Trade. He has several peer-reviewed publications in these domains and is the author of two single authored books. He has also been involved with research and teaching on Comparative Policy Systems of Emerging Economies with reference to India, Russia and China. Prof. Damodaran has worked on financial issues for a wide range of environmental subjects with a number of international and national organizations, including the Biodiversity Financing Strategy for India, a project funded by the National Biodiversity Authority of India (2011-2012) and is currently the Chairperson of the Technical Advisory Committee for UNDP assisted BIOFIN-GOI Project. Also, he is currently a member of the team of five experts set up by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of the United Nations to assess the financial requirements for the Global Environmental Facility’s seventh replenishment. He was a member of the CBD's High Level Panel for Global Assessment of Resources for the Convention on Biological Diversity (2012-14), and a member of the team of five experts to assess financial requirements for the GEF-6 replenishment period (2011-13). In addition he has served as a 'Economics of IP and International Technology Transfer', originally commissioned by the WIPO, has been listed as a WIPO document and consideredby WIPO's high levelCommittee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) at its Fourteenth Session in Geneva, November 2014. This work has been extended to the Defence Production industry in relation to Technology Transfer and Offset regimes.