Gurudas Nulkar

Dr. Gurudas Nulkar is the Director of Centre for Sustainable Development, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. Dr Gurudas has a Ph.D in industrial sustainability and environmental management. He has been the ‘Endeavour Fellow’ of the Government of Australia, where he studied sustainability initiatives within small and medium industries, and city councils. He was also the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. Gurudas is the recipient of the 22nd Dewang Mehta Award for Best professor of management. He is the author of five books, of which two are in English and three in Marathi. His Marathi book ‘अनर्थशस्त्र’ received the Government of Maharashtra “C.D.Deshmukh Award in Economic Literature”. Gurudas has been an expert on several committees and panels, including UN-ESCAP program, government of Maharashtra, and Pune Divisional Commissioner’s office. He contributed to the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority Draft Plan as an ecological expert. He is a member of Pune International Centre, Energy, Environment and Climate Change; member of Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Gurudas has completed several projects funded by organisations such as World Resources Institute, Global Forest Watch, Centre for Environmental Education, UNICEF, and others. His detailed profile can be accessed here: https://gipe.ac.in/faculty/gurudas-nulkar/