Our People
Dr Giles Atkinson
Dr. Giles Atkinson is an environmental economist with over 13 years of professional experience.
He is an expert in the fields of the economics of sustainable development and green national
accounting and has published widely on these topics as well as working on numerous research
projects and consultancies for research councils, governments, industry and international
organisations. Recent research topics include green accounting and deforestation, agricultural
sustainability and the relationship between international trade and sustainability. Another
component of Giles' research is the application of stated preference methods to estimate the
benefits of environmental policies, where he has extensive expertise in designing, testing and
administering surveys, including the use of focus groups, and in the statistical analysis of survey
data. This work has included the valuation of the switch of urban fringe land between
conservation and (housing) development, reduced water pollution arising from large
infrastructure investments in the water sector and measuring the social costs of crime. A
particularly novel element of this work has been the application of these methods to examine the
importance that the public attaches to different understandings of environmental equity. Giles
joined the London School of Economics and Political Science in January 1999 and is based in the
Department of Geography and Environment. He has more than 5 years of teaching and training
experience covering a range of topics related to environmental policy and environmental
economics including cost-benefit analysis and project appraisal. He is Honorary Senior Fellow at
the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and is
currently a member of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Environmental Economics Academic Panel.
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Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is one of Asia’s leading financial economists and environmentalists. He is the Managing Trustee of the Sustainable Planet Institute, a Senior Fellow of WWF as well as Adjunct Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He is also an Economic Advisor to Deutsche Bank Asia and to the United Nations Environment Program. He spent thirteen years working in Asian financial markets and, till November 2008, was based in Singapore as Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist and Investment Advisor for the region. Sanjeev has many other attachments including being a Steering Committee member of Urban Age at the London School of Economics, and Advisor to Aavishkaar Micro-Venture Capital Fund (which won the UN's World Business Award in 2006).
Sanjeev attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St. John's College, Oxford (UK) where he was Rhodes Scholar (1992-95). He was awarded the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 in recognition for his work on urban systems. He was also selected as a “Young Turk” by CNBC in 2008 for his contributions to financial markets. He has written numerous articles, editorials and academic papers in national and international publications. His book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" was published by Penguin in 2008 and has been in the best seller list.
Dr. Rajiv K. Sinha (Ph. D., Penn. State)
Dr. Rajiv K. Sinha (Ph. D., Penn. State) is a Professor in the Marketing Department, and the Center for Services Leadership Research Fellow at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, where he teaches graduate (MBA) courses and Executive Education programs in New Product Development, Marketing Principles and Internet Marketing.
He has consulted on new service and product development issues for a variety of companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Honeywell, American Express, Apple Computers, AT&T, MasterCard, Motorola and Raytheon. He has also taught at
Northwestern University (Kellogg Graduate School of Management) and has been a Visiting Professor at University of Warwick (U.K.), University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Ecole Superieure De Commerce- Toulouse (France), Motorola University, Beijing (China), Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon (Portugal), Plymouth University (U.K.) and ESAN, Lima (Peru).
His research has focused primarily on modeling the temporal diffusion of information technology products and services across organizations. His publications, in the leading marketing and management journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing and Strategic Management Journal, have addressed questions pertaining to the diffusion of new technologies and their impact on profitability. More recently, he has investigated the development of new
products and services on the Internet as well as marketing orientation dynamics.
He is the recipient of the Faculty Research Development Award for Outstanding Research, the Penley Teaching Award (2000), the Best Teacher Award (1999 and 1998) in the MBA Services Marketing track, and the 1998 Governor’s Award for Excellence. The 1998 Business Week rankings of the major business schools ranked him as the “Most Popular Professor” in the MBA program at Arizona State University. The 2000 Business Week rankings listed his E-Commerce and the New Product Development courses as the “Best Electives” in the MBA program. In January 2000 he was awarded the Fulbright -
FLAD Distinguished Chair in New Product Development.
You can get in touch with Rajiv at rajiv.sinha@asu.edu
Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev is a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank AG, based in London, having joined this division in India in 1994. His assignments have included building a leading financial markets business for the bank in India, managing the Bank’s money markets trading and liquidity across Asia-Pacific, being COO for the Bank’s Asian Global Markets business from Singapore, and being COO for the Bank’s global Emerging Markets business based in London. His current assignment is as Head of Business Process Re-engineering for the new Global Markets division, the Bank’s combined Debt and Equity division. Pavan is an experienced trader and structurer of currency, interest rate, and credit products. Before Deutsche Bank, he worked for 11 years at ANZ Grindlays, across India and in London.
Pavan was deeply involved in the evolution of India’s currency & interest rate markets from 1993 to 1998, especially derivatives. He was a member of several RBI committees for the development of markets - Foreign Exchange markets (Sodhani Committee), Debt Markets (YV Reddy) and commodities markets (RV Gupta). He was a co-founder of FIMMDA, India’s professionals association for fixed income markets, money markets and derivatives. He pioneered the introduction into India of an ‘Overnight Index Swap’ (OIS), now India’s most liquid interest rate derivatives instrument.
Pavan has been appointed “Study Leader” for the so called Potsdam Initiative (G8+5 Env Ministers) global study on the Economics of Ecosystem Degradation and Biodiversity Loss. This report intends to for Ecosystem and Biodiversity what the “Stern Review” did for Climate Change. The interim report was presented at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP-9) of the Convention for Biological Diversity at Bonn on 29th of May, 2008.
Pavan pursues his interest in environmental protection in India as a Board member of the Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), India, since 1998. He also set up a model rainforest restoration and eco-tourism project in Queensland, Australia.
You can get in touch with Pavan at pavan.sukhdev@db.com
P. Yesuthasen
Mr.P. Yesuthasen, Trustee, GIST, is a Consultant in Foreign Exchange and Exchange Control, and serves on the Boards of a Belgian software company and a bank. He is also on the International and India Boards of a Church related Micro Finance Company and is involved in an Australian Trust that runs a Children’s Home.
In the past, he was a Deputy Controller in the Reserve Bank of India where, in the early nineties, he initiated a number of developments in the regulation of the Forex market.
Mr. P. Yesuthasen holds an MBA in Finance from Cass Business School, London.
You can get in touch with Mr.P. Yesuthasen at pyes@vsnl.com
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