Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR),

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. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to

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from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of the

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(EAC) for multiple Prime Ministers of India:

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, V.P.Singh,

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, P.V. Narasimha Rao and

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. Parikh is a Gujarati. He completed his B.E. in Civil Engineering from

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, India in 1956. In 1957 he did his M.Tech. (Structures) from

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. He has a D.Sc. in civil engineering and a master's degree in economics from MIT, USA. He is also a Fellow of the

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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

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, in 2009, for his contributions to public affairs.

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