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    Dipti Gupta

    Dipti Gupta

    Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
    Business Sustainability

    Dr. Dipti Gupta is currently Assistant Professor in Business Sustainability area with Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.

    Her primary research interests include Energy Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG Strategy for Business Sustainability, and Energy-Economy Modelling.

    Her research has been published in reputed international journals such as World Development, Transport Policy, Energy, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Climate Policy and Economic and Political Weekly. She has presented her research at various international forums of repute such as Sustainability and Development Conference organized by University of Michigan, Scenarios Forum held in University of Denver, and International Workshop on Sustainable Road Freight by University of Cambridge. Her research on financing renewable energy also featured in the national newspaper Times of India.

    She has been associated with International Centre for Research on Environment and Development (CIRED, Paris) as Visiting Research Scholar since 2016. She is a member of India Climate and Energy Modelling Forum, NITI Aayog. She contributes to the processes mandated by COP, CMP, CMA and subsidiary bodies under UNFCCC as a member, UNFCCC roster of experts. She has been presenting her research on energy-economy modelling at the Annual IMACLIM International Network Workshop since 2017.

    She was invited by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Indian Railways to present her research on decarbonisation of transport sector in India. She has been a part of multiple International and National externally funded projects. She is currently part of multi-country research project on freight transport decarbonisation to achieve net-zero emissions.

    She completed Doctoral Program in Management in Public Systems area from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 2019. She has corporate experience with Freescale Semiconductor India before joining Doctoral Program.

    Current Research Interests

    Her current research interests include Energy Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategy for Business Sustainability, and Energy-Economy Modelling.

    Referred Journals

    Her research has been published in reputed international journals such as World Development, Transport Policy, Energy, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Climate Policy and Economic and Political Weekly.

    • Gupta, D., & Dhar, S. (2022). Exploring the freight transportation transitions for mitigation and development pathways of India. Transport Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.10.013
    • Policy lessons on Deep Decarbonization in large emerging economies, India. Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) Initiative-IDDRI. Paris. 2021. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/deref/https%3A%2F%2Fddpinitiative.org%2Fwp-content%2Fpdf%2FDDP_BIICS_CountryReport_IND.pdf
    • DDP India Country Factsheet Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) Initiative-IDDRI. Paris. 2021. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355152894_DDP_BIICS_India_Factsheet_2021
    • Ghosh, N., & Gupta, D. (2022). Decarbonization strategy of businesses, stock return performance and investment styles: a systematic review. Benchmarking: An International Journal, (ahead-of-print).
    • Gupta, D., Garg, A. (2020). Sustainable development and carbon neutrality: Integrated assessment of transport transitions in India. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920920306611
    • Gupta, D., Ghersi, F., Vishwanathan, S. and Garg, A. (2019). Achieving Sustainable Development in India along the Low Carbon Pathways: Macroeconomic Assessment. World Development (123. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X19302694
    • Gupta D., Das, A. & Garg, A. (2019). Financial support vis-à-vis share of wind generation: Is there an inflection point? Energy (181), 1064-1074 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.05.221.
    • Gupta, D., Ghersi, F., Vishwanathan, S. and Garg, A. (2020) Macroeconomic Assessment of India’s development and mitigation pathways. Climate Policy Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1648235
    • Gupta, D., Pandey, A. K., & Garg, A. (2019). Innovations in Public Administration in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(29). Retrieved from https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/29/special-articles/innovations- public-administration-india.html
    • Gupta, D., Ghersi, F., Garg, A (2018b). The IMACLIM-India model version 1.0. CIRED working paper 2018- 71, CIRED, Paris. Website: http://www2.centre-cired.fr/IMG/pdf/cired_wp_2018_71_ghersi.pdf
    • Gupta, D., Ghersi, F. & Garg A. (2018a). Hybrid Input-Output tables for India at year 2012, Mendeley Data, v2. Website: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/d7ffryvtjk/2

    Teaching:

    • Systems Thinking
    • Life Cycle Management
    • Managing Energy Businesses
    • Carbon Finance
    • Energy & Environment Policy (Doctoral)
    • Public Policy

    Education:

    • B.E. (Hons) (Electronics and Electrical Communication), Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
    • Fellow Program in Management, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
    • Recognition and award for publication in Children’s First Journal by Mr. Anurag Kundu, Chairperson, Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (2022)
    • Invited speaker for workshop on “India - EU Knowledge and Technical Exchange on Low Carbon Modelling Tools” organized by GIZ, India (2021)
    • Keynote speaker for seminar on “Modal Shift :Implication of Transport Transitions In India Towards Sustainable Development Goals & Paris Climate Change Agreement” organized by IRISET, Hyderabad (2020)
    • Invited speaker for symposium on environmental and climate initiatives of Indian railways and impact on carbon emission reduction organized by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Ministry of Railways, Government of India (2020)
    • Invited speaker for national conference on mitigation landscape in a carbon constrained world organized by Ahmedabad University (2019)
    • Full scholarship for presenting the work titled “Macroeconomic assessment of India’s development and mitigation pathways” in Scenarios Forum, Colorado, US by University of Denver (2019)
    • Invited speaker for IMACLIM Annual Network meeting 2019 (Cape Town), 2018 (Rio de Janeiro) and 2017 (Paris) (2017-2019)
    • Scholarship for participating in International summer school in Economic modelling of Environment, Energy and Climate held at CIRED, Paris (2017)
    • Secured 2nd Position in IEEE Paper Presentation, PEC, Chandigarh (2006)
    • Secured 6th position (among 60 students) in B.E., PEC, Chandigarh (2003-07)
    • All India Rank 608 (among 3 lakh students) in All India Engineering Entrance Exam (2003)
    • All India Rank 445 (among 1.8 lakh students) in IITJEE prelims (2003)
    • Awarded Distinction Certificate for standing amongst top 0.1 percent students across India in Social Science by CBSE (2001)
    • Awarded 1 st position (across all schools in Chandigarh, UT) in State Institute Mathematics Exam organized by Chandigarh Administration (2001)