Prof. Joyashree Roy has joined the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate, School of Environment,
Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology. Prof. Roy is the inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at AIT. Prior to joining AIT, she was with Department of Economics, Jadavpur University where she initiated and was coordinator of the Global Change Programme and Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Project.
She was Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) national fellow. and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA.
Prof. Roy was among the network of scientists IPCC-2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning panel, has been a chapter author of Global Energy Assessment. She is in the winning team of Prince Sultan Bin Aziz award for water. She has published more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles, authored and edited books.
Her research interests: Economics of Pollution and Climate Change, Modeling energy demand, Economy-wide modeling exercises for deriving policy implications, Water quality demand modeling, Water pricing, Sustainable development, Natural resource accounting, Valuing environmental services, Developmental and environmental issues relevant for informal sectors, Coastal Ecosystem service evaluation.
A Bangabandhu Chair on Sustainable Energy at the Asian Institute of Technology was formally inaugurated on 15 March 2018 following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Asian Institute of Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh.
