Kanchan Chopra, a leading expert in the field of environment and development, received her doctoral degree from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Till May 2009, she was the Director and Professor of the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi where she had been a member of the faculty for close to three decades. She was also a visiting professor at the Energy Research Institute, Delhi till mid-2015. She is a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm and the South Asian Network on Development and Environmental Economics and has also been elected as a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2011. She has published extensively in national and international journals and has authored several books with leading international publishers. She has also co-edited two volumes of ‘Handbook of Environmental Economics in India’ published by Oxford University Press in 2009 and ‘Environmental Governance: Approaches, Imperatives and Methods’ published by Bloomsbury in 2012. From 2001 to 2005, she was a Member of the Assessment Panel and Co-chair of the Responses Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an assessment supported by the United Nations to examine the relationship between human well-being and ecosystems. She is the Founder President of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics.
Dr. Chopra has recently been awarded the 2016 Kenneth Boulding Award presented by the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE).
