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Prof. Sudhakar Yedla is a Professor of Environmental Policy at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and has been associated with the institutions since 1999. He graduated with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He was a Post Doc at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and received a diploma in International Environmental Law from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Switzerland. He has also completed a course in Environmental Economics and Development Policy at the World Bank Institute, Washington, D.C. USA. He has held visiting fellow positions in international institutions such as New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, USA), Korean Institute for International Economic Policy (Seoul, South Korea), AIT (Thailand), and National Institute for Environmental Studies (Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) to name some. He has more than 6 books to his credit including two published by Springer "Urban Transportation and the Environment: Issues, Alternatives and Policy Analysis" (authored) and "Cities and Sustainability - Issues and Strategic Pathways" (co-edited); about 40 papers in international journals, and many more in national journals and conference proceedings. He has worked with many international development organizations such as UNDP, UN-FAO, UNEP, ADB, and World Bank.







Dr. Choongjae Cho is Senior Director General of Research Planning & Coordination Department at Korea Institute for International Economic Policy(KIEP), Seoul, Korea. Before this he was Head of the South Asian Team at the same institution. He is also an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies(HUFS), Seoul, South Korea. He is a member of the board in the Korean Association of Indian Social Science Research and the Institute of Indian Studies Korea. He is an expert on Indian economy and