Kirit S. Parikh Member, Planning Commission, Government of India "Beyond a Hunger Free World"
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Dr. Kirit S. Parikh is a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India, in charge of Energy, Water and Perspective Planning. With a Doctor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master's Degree in Economics from MIT, USA and an M Tech from IIT (Kharagpur), he has been a Professor of Economics since 1967. 

He is a Member of the Energy Coordination Committee and the Committee on Infrastructure Chaired by the Prime Minister. 

He was a Member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) of five Prime Ministers of India. 

He is the Chairman of the Indian National Committee, NMO Committee, for IIASA. From 1980 to 1986 he led IIASA’s Food and Agricultural Program (FAP) involving more than 100 researchers which explored policies to end hunger in the world.

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and honorary life member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He had been president of The Indian Econometric Society and Gujarat Economic Association. He is on the governing board of many development research Institutes and Chairman of some of them.  He is also Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi.

From 1986 to 2000 he was Founder Director (Vice Chancellor) of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai – an advanced research Institute. In 1997-98, on sabbatical leave, he was Special Economic Adviser to the Administrator UNDP, New York. From 1967-80, he was Professor of Economics (and sometimes Head) of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi.

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