Tirthankar nag
Tirthankar Nag (born 1973) holds a doctorate from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Owing to his vast experience in the corporate and academic field, he has had many international and national research projects to his credit.He has been serving as a Professor and Dean (Research and International Relations) at International Management Institute Kolkata since March, 2010. Apart from his academic career, he has AbOUT more than 20 years of experience in Management Consulting, Research, Utilities and Investment Banking. He has authored a number of papers in collaboration with Stanford University, has been a part of peer reviewing committees for many international journals, has published a book and worked on several book chapters as well.
Early Education
Tirthankar Nag pursued his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University (1996), Kolkata. Further, he completed his Fellow Programme in 2005 from IIM Ahmedabad by submitting his Doctoral Thesis on 'Implications of Electricity Reforms on Technology and environment'. Since then, he has been actively conducting several research projects in the Power, Energy, Electricity and Infrastructure sectors.
Career
As a professor at IMI Kolkata, Nag specialises in teaching strategic management, research methods, managing consulting engagements and developing infrastructure businesses. He has been the Dean of Research and International Relations at International Management Institute since 2010. He has a vast professional history as an academician as well as a manager and advisor in the corporate sector. He has worked with KPMG, SBI Capital Markets Ltd., PWC and CESC. He has also worked on a joint project with Stanford University as a fellow of IIM Ahmedabad. Tirthankar Nag has been instrumental in guiding and examining doctoral candidates. He has also played the role of a mentor in guiding entrepreneurs at CIIE (Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship), IIM Ahmedabad.
Books
- Electricity Reforms in India: Firm Choices and Emerging Generation Markets, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2004.( with P.R. Shukla, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor, Debashish Biswas and Amee Yajnik)
- Transition: Policy and Environmental Shifts â Implications for Technology Strategies and Green Orientation
International Research Papers
- Energy Balance of an Indian Semi-Arid Rural Ecosystem using Field, Ancillary and Geospatial Data,Journal of AgriSearch,March 2015, 2(1): 28-32 (with Abha Chhabra, V. Madhava Rao, R.R Hermon, Amit Garg,N. Bhaskara Rao, A. Sharma, J.S Parihar.
- Electricity Reforms and Firm Level Responses: Changing Ownership, Fuel Choices, and Technology Decisions, International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2005, Vol. 23, No.2/3 pp. 260 â 279, online access at www.inderscience.com (DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGEI.2005.006883
- Baselines for carbon emissions in the Indian and Chinese power sectors: Implications for International Emissions Trading, Energy Policy, Vol. 34, 2006, online access at www.sciencedirect.com
- Impact of Power Sector Reforms on Technology, Efficiency, and Emissions: Case Study of Andhra Pradesh, India, Working Paper No. 20, Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University
- Deprivation in Slums and Child Poverty: Study on Kolkata, International Journal of Social Economics, Manuscript ID IJSE-11-2014-0226.R2, Accepted on 15 April 2015 (DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-11-2014-0226).
- Dangers of Decentralisation in Urban Slums: A Comparative Study of Water Supply and Drainage Service Delivery in Kolkata, India, Development Policy Review 34 (2), 253-276, 2016 (DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12149).
- Local self-governance, ethnic division in slums and preference for Water Supply Institutions in Kolkata, India, Water Policy, wp2015127, Accepted Paper, 2016(DOI: 10.2166/wp.2015.127).