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Biography
 
Parkash Chander, Professor of Economics and Executive Director of Center for Environmental Economics and Climate Change at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Associate Editor of Journal of Public Economic Theory, a member of the Advisory Board of Journal of Economic Surveys, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Singapore Economic Review. He has previously held professorial positions at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and National University of Singapore (in reverse order). Also, he served as Head of Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and as Head of Department of Economics, National University of Singapore.

After completing his PhD from Indian Statistical Institute, Chander was a post doc to Professor Leo Hurwicz. He has researched primarily in the areas of public economics, environmental economics, and game theory and applications. His publications include articles in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory and other leading journals in economics. Professor Chander has held visiting appointments at Johns Hopkins University, California Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, CORE (Louvain-la-Neuve), the Autonomous University of Barcelona, International Monetary Fund, among other institutions. He has organized and participated in many international conferences. He was a member of program committees of the World Congress of the Econometric Society and International Economic Association.