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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Chandra Bhushan is the Associate Director of the New Delhi-based Centre for
Science and Environment (CSE), one of India’s premier public interest research
institutions working in the field of environment and development. Mr. Bhushan
works in the areas of natural resource management, environmental geopolitics,
and industrial ecology. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a
Master’s degree in environmental planning and technology.
Brahma Chellaney is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Centre for Policy
Research in New Delhi. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory
Group headed by the Foreign Minister of India. Mr. Chellaney was an adviser to
India’s National Security Council until January 2000, serving as convener of the
External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board. He has held
appointments at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Johns
Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and the
Australian National University. Mr. Chellaney is a specialist on international
security and arms control issues and is also a newspaper columnist and television
commentator.
Navroz K. Dubash is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New
Delhi. His research encompasses the political economy of energy in India and
Asia, climate change policy, the role of civil society in global environmental
governance, international financial institutions, and local institutions for water
management. In addition to publishing in various journals, he is also active in
Indian policy fora, has a long history of engagement with civil society in India
and globally, and is on the editorial board of several international journals. Dr.
Dubash holds a Bachelor’s degree in public policy from Princeton University and
a Master’s degree and Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Prem Shankar Jha is currently a columnist for several Indian publications,
including Outlook, the Hindustan Times, the Deccan Herald, and Tehelka. He
has been Editor of the Economic Times, the Financial Express, and The
Hindustan Times. He was a consultant to the UN Center for Human Settlements
in 1983-4 and again in 1986. In 1983, he was member and rapporteur of the
Maharashtra Government’s Study Team on the Gasification of Municipal Solid
Waste. Between 1983 and 1987, he was a member of the Energy Panel of the
World Commission on Environment and Development (The Bruntland
Commission.) In 1990, he was the Information Adviser to the Prime Minister of
India, V. P. Singh. Mr. Jha has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of
Management (Calcutta), Oxford University, Harvard University, and the