Dr. Joyashree Roy is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Jadavpur University. She leads several major collaborative research programs in the university including The Global Change Programme and the Nippon Foundation endowed long term SYLFF Project with a research focus on “Tradition, Social Change and Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach”. Joyashree previously spent time at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California at the Environmental Technology and Energy Division as a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow on Environmental Economics. She was also involved in the preparation of the AR4 Report for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning Inter Governmental Panel for climate Change. Prof. Roy has authored one book “Demand for Energy in Indian Industries (A Quantitative Approach),” and jointly edited several books including ‘Environmental Economics in India- Concepts and Problems’. She has written over forty articles in peer reviewed professional journals and books. Her current research interests are modeling energy demand, climate change, environmental valuation, natural resource accounting, water quality and health and economy wide modeling. She takes interest in multidisciplinary approaches towards understanding developmental issues.