Joyashree Roy is the inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology Thailand. She is Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University (now on lien). She is the founding advisor of the Global Change Programme and Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Project at Jadavpur University. She was the national fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. She was Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at LBNL Berkeley US. She was part of the IPCC-2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning panel. She is Coordinating Lead Author in the fifth and sixth assessment cycles of the IPCC. She led a chapter of Global Energy Assessment. She was part of the winning team of the Prince Sultan Bin Aziz Award for water. She has published more than 130 peer reviewed articles and has authored and edited books. Her research interests are economics of pollution climate change modeling energy demand water quality demand water pricing sustainable development natural resource accounting and valuing environmental services.
