Contributor: Surender Kumar

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Dr. Surender Kumar is presently working as Associate Professor of Economics at Department of Policy Studies, TERI University, New Delhi. His previous stint involved the position of Fellow at NIPFP, New Delhi, after being involved in teaching economics at undergraduate and post-graduate levels for about eight years at Kurukshetra University. He had been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the Environmental Economics Overseas Fellowship Program, Environmental Management Capacity building Project in India sponsored by the World Bank.

A Ph D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr. Kumar has worked with a concentrated focus on environmental and resource economics. He also extends his ambit of research to productivity and efficiency measurement.

The book, Environmental and Economic Accounting for Industry, (Oxford University Press, New Delhi), which Dr. Kumar co-authored with Prof. M.N. Murty, has emerged as a unique combination of rigorous theory and applied empiricism. The volume presents a roadmap on how Indian industry should account for environmental pollution and its abatement activities. Dr. Kumar has published more than a dozen papers during the last five years in journals such as Ecological Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, Water Policy, Journal of Energy and Development, etc.

Dr. Kumar’s work has a social face with policy implications. His work in the area of environmental economics has not been confined only to showing that the use of economic instrument is cost effective policy for environmental compliance, but extends to providing a theoretical rationale for a practicable tax-standard framework. Dr. Kumar was the lead author of the commissioned study of Ministry of Finance ‘Central Government Subsidies in India’ which formed the basis of the Discussion Paper that was presented by the Ministry of Finance in the Parliament on December 23, 2004.