A ten-year strategy for managing climate change in India - Montek Singh Ahluwalia

This is joint Grantham Research Institute and Global School of Sustainability event.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia will talk on “A Ten-Year Strategy for Managing Climate Change in India”.

Chair: Professor Elizabeth Robinson (Acting Dean, Global School of Sustainability).

Discussants: Adair Turner (Chair, Energy Transition Commission) and Nicholas Stern (Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; Chair, Global School of Sustainability.

If you would like to attend this event, please let Kerrie Quirk know by email k.quirk@lse.ac.uk.

Biography

Montek Singh Ahluwalia is an economist, civil servant and former Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Government of India. He has held several positions in the Indian Government and been a key figure in India’s economic reforms since the mid-1980s. He began his career at the World Bank and joined the Indian Ministry of Finance in 1979. He subsequently served as Special Secretary to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, as Commerce Secretary, Finance Secretary and as a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. In 2001, he was appointed the first Director of the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi. He has authored several articles and his memoirs “Backstage: The story of India’s High Growth years” was published by Rupa publications in 2020. Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia graduated from Delhi University and has an MA and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University.