Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is an advanced research and educational institution in Mumbai, India. The institute's mission is to carry out research on developmental issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view. This ...
(IGIDR),
Mumbai
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,
India
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. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to
United Nations Development Programme
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from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of the
Economic Advisory Council
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(EAC) for multiple
Prime Ministers of India
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:
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to beco ...
,
V.P.Singh,
Chandra Shekhar
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,
P.V. Narasimha Rao and
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...
.
Parikh is a
Gujarati
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* something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India
* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
* Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...
.
He completed his B.E. in Civil Engineering from
Gujarat University
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, India in 1956. In 1957 he did his M.Tech. (Structures) from
Indian Institute of Technology
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Kharagpur
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. He has a D.Sc. in civil engineering and a master's degree in economics from
MIT
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, USA.
He is also a Fellow of the
National Academy of Sciences
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, India. He has been the editor of "India Development Reports" which provide a non-governmental assessment of India's development and policy options. Apart from these, he has been a member of numerous other boards of directors.
[ He has also authored and co-authored more than 15 books in the areas of planning, water resource management, appropriate technology for housing, optimum requirement for fertilizers, energy systems, national and international food policies, trade policies, general equilibrium modeling and natural resources accounting. He has also published numerous articles.][ The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the ]Padma Bhushan
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, in 2009, for his contributions to public affairs.
References
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Living people
Indian civil engineers
20th-century Indian economists
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Gujarat University alumni
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in public affairs
Indian structural engineers
20th-century Indian engineers
Gujarati people
Year of birth missing (living people)