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Jyoti Parikh is executive director at Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi. She has also been a member of the Prime Minister of India's Advisory Panel on Climate Council. She was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize given to authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007. Besides serving as senior professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, she has also worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, and served as senior energy consultant at the Planning Commission, New Delhi. She has also been an energy consultant to the World Bank, the US Department of Energy, European Economic Community, Brussels and UN agencies such as the UNIDO, FAO, UNU, and UNESCO, UNDP, and the World Bank.
Jyoti Parikh is executive director at Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi. She has also been a member of the Prime Minister of India's Advisory Panel on Climate Council. She was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize given to authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007. Besides serving as senior professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, she has also worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, and served as senior energy consultant at the Planning Commission, New Delhi. She has also been an energy consultant to the World Bank, the US Department of Energy, European Economic Community, Brussels and UN agencies such as the UNIDO, FAO, UNU, and UNESCO, UNDP, and the World Bank.
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