Prodipto Ghosh is involved in research and teaching at the interface of science, economics, philosophy, and public policy. Currently, he is Distinguished Fellow at TERI. Earlier he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Cabinet, Governing Council of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, National Security Advisory Board, PMs Council on Climate Change, G 20 Advisory Group of the Ministry of Finance, and the CAGs Audit Advisory Committee. He was Adjunct Faculty at the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (where he lectured on Indian macroeconomic policy and public finance), TERI University (where he taught post-graduate courses on Normative Ethics and Microeconomics and regulation), and Visiting Fellow at the Smith College, Oxford (with whom he engaged in collaborative policy research).
He was a member of the IAS from 1969 to 2007, when he retired as Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. He has also held the positions of Economic Advisor and Additional Secretary to the PM, Additional Secretary at the Department of Economic Affairs, and Senior Environment Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila. He was a member of India's negotiating team at the UNFCCC climate change negotiations from 2001 to 2012. He is the author of a number of peer reviewed research papers, and several newspaper articles.
He has a Ph.D and M.Phil in Economics and Policy Analysis from the Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi, and has received Alumni Achievement Awards from both institutions. He is also the recipient of the BP Pal Centenary Memorial Award.
Email: prodipto@teri.res.in