SANDEE Fellows
A. K. Enamul Haque is a Professor of Economics at the United International University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been teaching environmental and resource economics since 1992. Dr Haque completed his PhD degree from the University of Guelph Canada in 1991 in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics. Besides teaching, Dr Haque has contributed to several high level committees in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Bangladesh. His research fields include soil erosion, impact of agricultural land degradation and health costs and institutions related to drinking water contamination from arsenic. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, Dhaka, GTZ, Dhaka, IUCN Bangladesh and is a member of the SANDEE management and advisory committee. He is now advising the Government of Bangladesh as a member of its Technical Committee on mitigation due to climate change. He is a life member of Bangladesh Economic Association.
Bhim Adhikari is a Senior Program Specialist at Canada's International Development Research Center (IDRC) and works specifically on the environmental economics program. His main research interest is in environment and development, particularly poverty-environment nexus, climate change adaptation, ecosystem services and institutions and environmental resource management. Over the past twenty years, Bhim has worked with a number of organizations and academic institutions, including the Institute for Water, Environment and Health- the United Nations University's think tank on water. At the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Pakistan, he tackled issues around environmental fiscal reforms and mainstreaming environment into poverty reduction strategies. He worked with a rural energy project at the United Nation's Development Program in Nepal, focusing on energy-environment issues. Bhim has worked at the University of Michigan, USA as a Research Fellow and was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York, UK. He also worked as consultant and visiting researcher for the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan; UNDP, New York; and TERI University in India. Bhim holds a PhD in Environmental Economics and Management from the University of York and has produced several publications on economic aspects of environment and natural resource management. 
E. Somanathan received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1995 and taught at Emory University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor before joining the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, where he is Professor. His main research interest is in development economics, particularly environmental problems and political economy. In 2002 he received a Sandee grant to study awareness and the demand for environmental quality in connection with drinking water. He became a Sandee resource person in 2004. He is writing a book on environmental problems in India.For more information please visit
Jeffrey Vincent is the Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Vincent's research focuses on the economics of natural resource management and policy in developing countries. Currently, his two main projects are a 5-year project with the Forest Research Institute Malaysia on biodiversity conservation in tropical landscapes affected by commercial logging, and an ongoing project on the joint impacts of brown clouds and greenhouse gases on climate change, water, and agriculture in South Asia. He has also worked extensively on the adjustment of national income and wealth accounts for resource depletion.Vincent's books include the Handbook of Environmental Economics (North-Holland, three volumes, 2003, 2005) and Managing Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia (RFF Press, 2005). His articles have appeared in environmental economics journals, including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics; economic development journals, including the World Bank Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and World Development; forestry journals, including Forest Science and the Journal of Forestry; and general science journals, such as Science. He received the Cozzarelli Prize for the best article in applied biological, agricultural, and environmental sciences published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and the McKinsey Award for the most significant article published in the Harvard Business Review in 2003.
Vincent serves on the board of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, and the international advisory committees of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE) and the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA). He is on the editorial boards of Environment and Development Economics and the Journal of Tropical Forest Science. He consults regularly for the World Bank and other international organizations. He has directed or worked on projects in Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Prior to joining Duke in July 2007, he held positions in the Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego (2001-7); the Institute for International Development at Harvard University (1990-2001); and the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University (1987-90). He has degrees from Yale University (Ph.D., 1988), Michigan State University (M.S., 1984), and Harvard University (A.B., 1981).
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.
