Kirit Parikh
He is currently a member of the Planning Commission of India and Chair of IIASA’s Indian NMO.
As the Leader of IIASA’s Food and Agricultural Program from 1980 to 1986, Kirit Parikh pioneered the Basic Linked System (BLS), a modeling tool still used today to determine the effectiveness of policies to eliminate hunger. He left IIASA to become founding director of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, from which he retired in 2000.