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

Rajiv K. Sinha is the Lonnie Ostrom Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. His research has focused on econometric modeling of the temporal diffusion of innovations, public policy issues related to tobacco addiction, pricing of digital products and their impact on piracy as well as on environmental economics. His research has been published in leading marketing, management, engineering and environmental economics journals such as Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Strategic Management Journal, Production and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management Review, IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, Ecological Economics and others.

He teaches graduate (MBA and doctoral) courses and Executive Education programs in New Product Development, Marketing Principles and Internet Marketing. He has taught at Northwestern University (Kellogg Graduate School of Management) and has also been a Visiting Professor at University of Warwick (U.K.), University of Canterbury (New Zealand), Ecole Superieure De Commerce- Toulouse (France), Grenoble Ecole de Management (France), Motorola University, Beijing (China), Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon (Portugal) and ESAN, Lima (Peru). 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 is the recipient of the James W. Creasman Award for Excellence (2009), a quadrennial award given for outstanding contributions to Arizona State University and the community. In addition, he has received the Faculty Research Development Award for Outstanding Research, the Penley Teaching Award, the Outstanding Teacher in the MBA Services Marketing track (four times), and the Governor’s Award for Excellence. In 2007, he received the inaugural W. P. Carey Outstanding MBA Teacher Award. The Business Week rankings of the major business schools rated him as the “Most Popular Professor” in the MBA program at Arizona State University. In addition, the Business Week rankings listed his E-Commerce and the New Product Development courses as the “Best Electives” in the MBA program.

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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