Visiting Fellowships

The primary way of engaging with the GCD project has been through two visiting fellowships offered to scholars or practitioners working in the Global South. Both fellows have visited UEA to develop their thinking on governance issues that pertain to their particular research interests and to develop collaborative work with the GCD team.  

 

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Kasturi Das, GCD Visiting Fellow 2011

Kasturi Das worked with the GCD team in June 2011 to develop collaborative work linking her own analysis of technology transfer under the CDM in India with GCD analysis of CDM governance in the country.

Kasturi is an economist, presently associated with the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, India. Her current areas of research include climate change; technology transfer; WTO-related issues; and trade-climate interface. Kasturi is also a visiting faculty in The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University; the Foreign Service Institute (Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India); and the Indian Society of International Law – all based in New Delhi. Earlier she has advised the Department of Commerce, Govt. of India on climate change and WTO issues. Kasturi has published in a number of refereed journals and edited volumes. She also serves as a referee with the World Development, Journal of World Intellectual Property, and Australian Journal of Asian Law.

Kasturi was the M.Sc. (Economics) topper in the University of Calcutta, India. Her doctoral dissertation in Economics (climate change) – submitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in 2011 - takes up critical areas of direct policy relevance in India and other developing countries, such as technology transfer under the Clean Development Mechanism and beyond; economic implications of border carbon adjustments for developing countries; and the WTO-legality of such unilateral trade measures. Kasturi speaks Bengali, Hindi and English.

Kasturi's working paper on the record of technology transfer under the CDM is available on our Working Paper Series page

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 Dr Pallav Purohit, GCD Visiting Fellow 2010

Dr. Pallav Purohit, the first Visiting Fellow of the Project, joined the Governance of Clean Development team at UEA during April 2010 bringing in-depth experience of the CDM and energy sector politics in India to GCD studies on the political economy of clean development in India.

Pallav is a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. He is currently working on the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies project of IIASA. Before joining IIASA, he worked as an e8 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Programme on International Climate Policy, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), Germany with a focus on a detailed technical evaluation of renewable energy options towards a more policy-oriented analysis of the chances and risks of such technologies under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. He was also a visiting faculty member to the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich.

He is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Global Energy Issues and Editorial Board Member of Sustainability and The Open Renewable Energy Journal. Pallav received an MSc in physics from the H.N.B. Garhwal University in 1998 and a PhD in energy policy and planning from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2005, both in India. He speaks Garhwali, English, Hindi and basic German.

Initial findings of the collaborative work between Pallav and the GCD team are outlined in a paper for IDS Bulletin, The Political Economy of Clean Development in India: CDM and Beyond, and in a GCD working Paper, Governing Clean Energy in India.  

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Other opportunities for collaboration

If you are interested in finding out more about opportunities for collaboration with the Governance of Clean Development Project please contact us:

Jon Phillips  |  jon.phillips@uea.ac.uk The Governance of Clean Development Project International Development UEA  | University of East Anglia | Norwich NR4 7TJ