Joyashree Roy
Position/Department/Division/Institution/Organization
Founder Director, South and South East Asia Multidisciplinary Research Network onTransforming Societies of Global South, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Professor of Economics and Founder Advisor, Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University,
India

Country
Thailand and India
Career history
Joyashree Roy is the Founder Director of the Centre on South and South East Asia
Multidisciplinary Applied Research Network on Transforming Societies of Global South andformerly the Bangabandhu Chair Professor at SERD, Asian Institute of Technology,Thailand. She is a Professor of Economics and Founder advisor to multi year projects :Global Change Programme and SYLFF-JUprogramme in Jadavpur University, India. Sheis a national fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR). She was Ford
Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at LBNL, Berkeley, USA. She is the recipient of 2021
Paradigm award of The Breakthrough Institute,USA. She was in IPCC-2007 Nobel Peace
Prize winning panel and continuned as Coordinating Lead Author in Fifth and Sixth
assessment cycles of WGIII of IPCC. She has been a chapter author of Global Energy
Assessment, has been associated with the Stern Review Report and many other global andNational, Subnational Reports. She is in the winning team of 2012 Prince Sultan Bin Aziz
creativity award for water. She has published more than 160 peer reviewed journal articles,authored and edited books. She is in the Steering/advisory committee of several nationaland International science-policy interactive platforms and in editorial boards of many
international journals. Her research interests are: Resource and Environmental Economics,
Economics of Pollution and Climate Change, Modeling industrial and other sectoral energy
demand, Economy-wide modeling exercises for deriving policy implications, Water quality
demand modeling, Water, Energy, Carbon pricing, Sustainable development, Natural
resource accounting, Valuing environmental services, Developmental and environmental
issues relevant for informal sectors, Coastal Ecosystem service evaluation. She features inthe documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains the World which explains among otherthings how developing countries are trying to bring people out of the dark and to the lights
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Awards/Publications
Awards•2021 Paradigm Award recipient•2012: Creativity Prize :A member of the ‘Team led byProf. Ashok Gadgil’- winner of

the5th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
•2008: Felicitated and awarded a certificate by Prime Minister of India for valuable contribution
to the IPCC process (AR4).

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2007: Nobel Peace Prize: Among the network of scientists who shared in 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize awarded to IPCC. Served as Coordinating Lead author of industry chapterof WGIII of AR4 and AR5.

•IPCC shares the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007.

1997: Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship Award in Environmental Economics.
Spent the year at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy
Technology Division., USA.

Most recent relevant publications:•“Biorights:The neo-economic conservation for Global South”, Springer, Studies in

Ecological Economics

Vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91503-2 . ISBN 978-3-030-91502-5 ISBN 978-3-030-91503-2 (eBook), Switzerland .
(co edited: Dipayan De and Joyashree Roy)

•Some S, Roy J, Chatterjee JS, Butt MH, (2022) Low demand mitigation options for achieving Sustainable
Development Goals: Role of reduced food waste and sustainable dietary choice, Journal of Cleaner
Production , doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133432.

•P. Poontirakul, T.W. Tsusaka, I. Pal, S. Szabo, J. Roy, (2022), Does insurance work? Dynamic
assessment of insurance, poverty, and climatic hazard outcomes in Thailand, Climate Risk
Management, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100449 (2022).

•Dey, D and Roy J, (2022) Economics of Biorights, in ed . Dey and Roy “Biorights:The
neo-economic conservation for Global South”, Springer, Studies in Ecological Economics Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91503-2 . ISBN 978-3-030-91502-5 ISBN 978-3-030-91503-2(eBook), Switzerland .
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adaptation options and gender equality: a review of the global literature”. Humanities and Social
Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01266-6•

Creutzig, F., J. Roy, P. Devine-Wright, J. Díaz-José, F.W. Geels, A. Grubler, N. Maϊzi, E. Masanet,
Y. Mulugetta, C.D. Onyige, P.E. Perkins, A. Sanches-Pereira, E.U. Weber, 2022: Demand, services
and social aspects of mitigation. In IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of ClimateChange. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, R. Slade, A. Al Khourdajie, R.
van Diemen, D. McCollum, M. Pathak, S. Some, P. Vyas, R. Fradera, M. Belkacemi, A. Hasija, G.
Lisboa, S. Luz, J. Malley, (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY,
USA. doi: 10.1017/9781009157926.007•Jackson, Robert B., Ahlström, Anders, Hugelius, Gustaf, Wang, Chenghao, Porporato, Amilcare,Ramaswami, Anu, Roy, Joyashree, and Yin, Jun. (2022). “Human Well-Being and Per Capita
Energy Use.” Ecosphere 13( 4): e3978. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3978•Creutzig Felix, Leila Niamir, Xuemei Bai, Max Callaghan, Jonathan Cullen, Julio Díaz-José, Maria Figueroa, Arnulf
Grubler, William F. Lamb, Adrian Leip, Eric Masanet, Érika Mata, Linus Mattauch, Jan C. Minx, SebastianMirasgedis, Yacob Mulugetta, Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho, Minal Pathak, Patricia Perkins, Joyashree Roy, Stephanede la Rue du Can, Yamina Saheb, Shreya Some, Linda Steg, Julia Steinberger, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (2021),
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of wellbeing, Nature Climate change,
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01219-y

Areas of expertise
Economics (Micro Economics, Quantitative Techniques in Economics); Resource, Energy andEnvironmental Economics; Natural Resource Accounting; Economics of Climate Change;
Research and Analysis, Training, Capacity Building, Global South.

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