Ashish Aggarwal

Prof. Aggarwal has been working on issues related to sustainable management and public policy for more than fifteen years. During this period, he has worked with academic and policy research organisations like University of Manchester; IIED, London and The Energy and Resources Institute. He has successfully completed several research projects sponsored by World Bank, UNFF, JICA, DFID, GIZ, Government of India, various state governments and multinational and public sector companies.

He has advised central and state governments and corporates on sustainable development, climate change and corporate social responsibility issues in India. He is a reviewer of sixth assessment report and contributing author to fifth assessment report of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Prof Aggarwal has a PhD from University of Manchester and an MPhil from University of Cambridge, UK

Research

Prof. Aggarwal has research interests in the areas of Sustainable Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability Reporting, Corporate Response to Climate Change and Social Innovations

He is an Associate Editor of peer reviewed journal ‘Conservation and Society’ (impact factor 1.9).

He has published papers in peer reviewed journals like Land Use Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, Forest Policy and Economics, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change and Economic and Political Weekly.

He is also affiliated to the Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) at University of Sheffield, UK

PhD Students (ongoing at IIML)

• Ms Lekshmi R Kumar: Corporate Response to climate change in India
• Mr Vikrant Kulkarni: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Goals: Synergies and Challenges in India

Teaching

• Principles of Sustainable Management
• Business Sustainability
• Creativity and Innovations
• Sustainability Measuring, Certification and Reporting
• Stakeholder Analysis and Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Research Methods

Education

• PhD University of Manchester
• MPhil Cambridge University

Awards & Honours

• Member advisory committee of the Government of India on National Mission for a Green India under National Action Plan on Climate Change
• Advised state governments of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Mizoram in India on Natural resource management issues
• Contributing author to IPCC fifth assessment report
• Research Scholar award for PhD, University of Manchester
• Cambridge scholarship for MPhil, University of Cambridge
• Government of India fellowship for PGDFM course
• Merit awards for undergraduate, secondary and high school