A Damodaran is distinguished professor, Icrier-Prosus Centre for Internet and Digital Economics (IPCIDE). He was earlier senior faculty at IIM Bangalore. He holds a doctorate in economics, and was awarded the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2004. He was Environmental Fellow with the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley under the US-Asia Environment Programme in 1994.