Jayanta Bandyopadhyay is a professor and researcher on environmental policy and author. In December 1992 he retired from his position as Professor and Head of the Center for Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. An internationally renowned professional on public interest research and environmental policy, Bandyopadhyay has authored fourteen critically acclaimed books and monographs, in addition to 130 papers and articles. He has delivered invited lectures in many parts of the world.