Dr. Panigrahi is a leading global sustainability thought leader and the Distinguished Research Fellow and Director General, Indian Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD), and Carbon Minus India (CMI). He is a well-known Indian policymaker and Technocrat who has worked with the Government of India, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the World Bank. He is a member of the National Strategic Knowledge Mission and a few other missions on Climate Change, to implement the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). He was a Member Secretary of a Prestigious Working Group at Planning Commission (Now NITI Aayog) to prepare the National Action Plan for Operationalizing CDM in India, based on which CDM rolled in India, and the Report of the Committee on Biofuels, He is in few Government Of India & United Nation’s Steering Committees & Task Forces on Technology Transfer, Climate / ESG Risk Finance, Transition Finance and UN-SDGs Implementation. He has represented India in many COPs and International Climate Change Negotiations in UNFCCC and is known as the Chief Architect of Indian Carbon Market. He was awarded the National Science
Popularization Award by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, for his Extraordinary Contribution and Commitments to Popularize Science and is recognized by UNEP for his valuable contribution and leadership in catalyzing environmental actions, on World Environment Day, 2007. MIT Sloan School of Management has recognized him as an En-Road Climate Ambassador in the Policy Makers Category.
