Dilip Ahuja

Professor
School of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Room No.: S 11
Tel: 080-2218 5135
Fax: 080-2218 5028
Email: drahuja@gmail.com

PhD (Virginia, USA)

Joined NIAS on 13th December 1999
Dean, Academic Affairs; 13 September 2010-17 February 2013

Most significant research contribution: Proposed with his collaborators, most recently, advancing Indian Standard Time by half an hour. A recent publication estimates the energy savings and other benefits to be obtained from such a shift.

Dr Dilip Ahuja is the ISRO Professor of Science and Technology Policy. In 2007 he was on a sabbatical at the UN Foundation in Washington, DC as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Global Leadership for Climate Action. He has been a Special Advisor to the Inter Academy Council's recently concluded study titled 'Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future'. He has contributed to several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Prior to joining NIAS, he was a Senior Environmental Specialist at the Global Environment Facility Secretariat. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Recent Lectures

• “Will a new climate regime emerge from the ashes in Copenhagen?” Invited Plenary Lecture at the Indo-French Conference on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Bangalore, 29 January 2010.
• Framework for a New Global Agreement on Climate Change, at the Symposium on Climate Change: Science and Solutions, National Commission on Science and the Environment, Washington DC, January 18, 2008.
•  “The IAC Study on Sustainable Energy Systems—Relevance to Asia and the Pacific” presented at the ICSU Symposium on Priority Issues in the field of Energy in Asia and the Pacific, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 21 November 2007. 
• Optimism and Pessimism about the prospects for making Energy Systems more Sustainable, keynote address at the Seminar on “Science, Technology and Development” Bangalore, 28 Oct. 2005.
• Indian Policy on Climate Change Negotiations, Panel Discussion on Weather and Climate, Indian Science Congress, 5 January 2003. 
• Estimating Incremental Cost of Achieving Global Environmental Benefits: A tiny bridge between Environment and Economics, keynote address at the INSEE Conference on Methodological Issues in Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment, Bangalore, July 23, 2001. 
• Assessment of the Role of Carbon Neutral Technologies in India’s Power Sector: Proposed Research Program, the US Research Forum, WRI, Washington, DC, May 14-15, 2001. 
• Renewable Energy and Subsidies, invited paper presented at the International Symposium on Development Policies for the New Millennium, Mumbai, July 12-14, 2000. 
• Developing an Operational Program for Sustainable Transport the FFEM-GEF Workshop in Paris, May 4-5, 2000. 
• Estimating Global Benefits of Bioresources Projects, invited paper at the Bioresources '94
  International Conference, Bangalore, India, October 1994. 

Recent Publications

• Sen Gupta, D. P. and Dilip R. Ahuja: “Options for Adjusting Indian Standard Time for Saving Energy”, NIAS Report R3-2010, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, October 2010.
  
• D. Ahuja and J. Srinivasan: “Why controlling climate change is tougher than stopping stratospheric ozone depletion”, Current Science, Vol. 97, No. 11, 10 December 2009, pp. 1531-34.
  
• D. Ahuja: “Multiple Pressures on India on Climate Change”, Current Science, Vol. 97, No. 10, 25 November 2009, pp. 1414-1415.
  
• D. Ahuja and M. Tatsutani: “Sustainable Energy for Developing Countries”,  SAPIENS : Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society, 2.1/2009: VOL.2/N*1.
• Mohamed El-Ashry and Dilip Ahuja: “A Global Response to Climate Change”, Environmental Policy and Law 38(1-2): 20-25, 2008.
• Halsnaes K., Shukla, P., Ahuja, D. R. et al., “Framing Issues”, Chapter 2 in Climate Change 2007: Mitigation Working Group III Report to the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC [B. Metz et. al. (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 117-167. 
• “A Draft Indian National GEF Strategy”, in Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume VII, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 7-16. 
• "Mendacity in our midst”, in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 38, No. 18, May 3-9, 2003, pp.1795-1799. 
• D. A. Lashof and D. R. Ahuja: "Relative Contributions of Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Global Warming", Nature 344(6266): 529-531, 1990. 
• D. Ahuja, V. Joshi, K. Smith and C. Venkataraman: "Thermal Performance and Emission Characteristics of Unvented Biomass Burning Cookstoves: A Proposed Standard Method for Evaluation" Biomass 12(4): 247-270, 1987. 

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