Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan is an engineer-turned development researcher with M. Tech. from IIT, Delhi, and Ph.D. from IGIDR, Mumbai. Currently, he works as a Professor at IRMA. Prior to joining IRMA, he was with National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He had industry experience with Infosys Limited, Bangalore and Geometric Global, Mumbai. Dr. Hippu was the Subir Chowdhury Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2017. He has won the Elsevier-National Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Award 2017 in Social Sciences. He is also a winner in Global Development Network Awards and Medals Competition in the category of Outstanding Research on Development. He is a recipient of Young Scientist Award conferred at Odisha Environment Congress-2012. In the doctoral years, his research papers have received best paper awards in four colloquiums: Doctoral Colloquim-2010 (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), COSMAR-2007 and 2008 (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), and SCODER-2007 (IGIDR, Mumbai). His areas of interest include economic measurement, energy, sustainability, human development, and socio-political reform. His most significant research contributions are conceptualizing frameworks for structuring and selection of sustainable development indicators, and developing alternative approaches to compute human development index and to measure energy poverty.
Dr. Hippu’s research works has been published in peer-reviewed journals: Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Energy Research and Social Science, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Contemporary Social Science, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of International Development, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Economic Political Weekly, International Journal of Water Resources Development, Journal of Economic Issues, among others. His co-authored book entitled Negotiating Development at the Margins: Natural Resources, Conflicts, and People’s Movements in Odisha was published by Routledge last month. He also has co-edited a book titled COVID-19 Pandemic, Public Policy and Institutions in India: Issues of Labour, Income, and Human Development published by Routledge in 2022. He has contributed chapters to several books and reports including Springer’s Sustainability in Indian Cities: A Developing Country Perspective, Oxford University Press’s India Development Report-2011, Spinger Nature’s Varying Dimensions of India’s National Security Emerging Perspectives, and Asian Development Bank’s ‘Cyclone Fani: Damage, Loss, and Needs Assessment’, and was national expert and contributed the India Chapter in ‘Quality of Employment: Selected Country Cases in Asia’ published by Asian Productivity Organization in 2023. He has also published academic writings in popular press such as The Indian Express, The Pioneer, The Caravan, The Deccan Herald, Geopolitics, Money Control, Peace Magazine, Mainstream, Janata, Science Reporter, The Hans India, and The Indian Economist.
Dr. Hippu has undertaken research studies supported by Ministry of Earth Science, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Dept. of Science Technology, Govt. of India, National Thermal Power Corporation, International Water Management Institute, Department of Tourism Govt. of Gujarat, Department of Tourism Govt. of Karnataka, Bank of Baroda, West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project (WBADMIP), Govt. of West Bengal, Indian Council of Social Science Research, among others. He is the associate editor of International Journal of Rural Management, and has also guest edited a special issue on Sufficiency of Journal of Indian Business Research. He is the South Asia regional network and Horizontal inequality thematic group coordinator of Human Development and Capability Association.
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