Kasturi Das

Professor Kasturi Das is an inter-disciplinary researcher, an educator and an institution builder with more than two decades of professional experience conducting research, advisory, consultancy, advocacy, teaching and academic administration. She is 2024-2025 Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellow for Academic & Professional Excellence (Research) and Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP), Yale School of the Environment, Yale University. 

Having joined IMT Ghaziabad (IMTG) as Associate Professor in July 2013, Professor Das has been serving as Full Professor of IMTG since November 2017 till date. As the founding head of the I’M The Change Initiative on Sustainability & Social Responsibility (SSR) at IMTG since 2016, she conceptualized and developed from scratch an innovative, required, credit course on service-learning for MBA students and got it executed for seven years already, touching thousands of peoples belonging to the under-served communities. Under her leadership, I’M The Change won the Innovations that Inspire Challenge 2018 of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International. In 2023, she was awarded the Wipro-Earthian Research Grant for developing a first-of-its-kind research compendium on service-learning courses in Indian management schools. 

Professor Das has been holding multiple advisory positions in India and globally in the field of trade and the environment including in the Government of India’s High-level Advisory Committee on Trade and the Environment, World Economic Forum’s Expert Group on Trade and Climate Change; International Advisory Network of the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), among others. As Member of the Climate Strategies, UK, she co-led multiple research projects on trade-climate interface. 

A PhD in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), JNU, New Delhi, Professor Das has published extensively in leading scholarly journals including Nature, American Journal of International Law, Annual Review of Environment of Resources, Global Environmental Change, Journal of World Intellectual Property, etc. She has delivered numerous invited talks and lectures globally and consulted with multiple institutions across geographies.

In 2019, Professor Das visited the University of Oxford as a Chevening CRISP Fellow of the UK FCDO. In 2011, she was hosted by the University of East Anglia as the Governance of Clean Development Visiting Fellow of the ESRC. In 2007, she visited the University of Cambridge as a Ford Foundation Fellow.