Mr Dipak Dasgupta is engaged with the Earth Science and Climate Change Division of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as its Distinguished Fellow. He is also serving as a Visiting Fellow at the Council for Social Development, and is an adviser to multilateral institutions and governments in India and other countries.
An economist, specializing in climate change and finance, macroeconomics, agriculture, and economic development, Mr Dasgupta is member of the core writing team, Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment IPCC, and a Lead Author of its Working Group III (mitigation) report.
He was a founding Board Member of the Green Climate Fund (2012-2015), the largest dedicated global climate fund, and chair-facilitator of its Investment Committee. Prior to his stint at TERI, Mr Dasgupta was a Principal Economic Adviser to the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (2010-2013), where he headed its Climate Finance unit and finance negotiations at the Conference of Parties. He has also worked in a senior capacity at the World Bank Group for three decades on economic policies and investment programs in several regions and countries, including India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, and other countries in East Asia and Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & North Africa regions.
He is also a recipient of the Adam Smith Prize in economics at Cambridge and the AMEX Bank review award for finance in Singapore.