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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, ESG Strategy for Business Sustainability, and Energy-Economy-Environment 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 has been featuring regularly in the national media.

    She has been associated with International Centre for Research on Environment and Development (CIRED, France, 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 the member of the Technical Advisory Group of PPAC, MoPNG, Government of India. She has been presenting her research on energy-economy modelling at the Annual IMACLIM International Network Workshop since 2017.

    She has recently authored the original book Framing India’s Low Carbon Development Pathways published by Cambridge University Press. She has been leading multiple International and National externally funded projects regularly. She recently completed a 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, ESG Strategy for Business Sustainability, and Energy-Economy-Environment 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. 2025. Framing India’s Low Carbon Development Pathways. Cambridge University Press. Book.
    • Pathak, M., Creutzig, F., & Gupta, D. (2025). What Has Been Done to Reduce Luxury Consumption? A Global Review. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 50.
    • Gupta, D. & Prusty, S. K. (2025). Developing an Accountability Framework for Public-Private Partnership: Insights from an Indian Case Study. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 1-19.
    • Gupta, D., Mahapatra, D. & Prusty, S. K. (2025). Barriers and enablers in solar rooftop policy implementation: Views from an actor intermediary perspective. Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 32(1), 207-246.
    • Gupta, D., & Pathak, M. (2025). Economic and environmental implications of India's industry transition to net zero. Applied Energy, 379, 124922.
    • Harry-Villain, L., Briand, Y., Waisman, H., …. Gupta D., ... & Cui, R. (2025). Analyzing sectoral policies for deep decarbonization: the case of national freight transportation. Climate Policy, 1-14.
    • Briand, Y., Gupta, D., D’Agosto, M. D. A., Goes, G. V., Gonçalves, D. N. S., Garg, A., ... & Koning, M. (2024). A pathway design framework for national freight transport decarbonization strategies. Climate Policy, 1-17.
    • Chaturvedi, V., Ghosh, A., Garg, A., Avashia, V., Vishwanathan, S. S., Gupta, D., ... & Prasad, S. (2024). India’s pathway to net zero by 2070: status, challenges, and way forward. Environmental Research Letters, 19(11), 112501
    • Briand, Yann, Steve Pye, Marcio de Almeida D’Agosto, George Vasconcelos Goes, Daniel Neves Schmitz-Gonçalves, Amit Garg, Dipti Gupta et al. (2023) "Passenger transport decarbonization in emerging economies: policy lessons from modelling long-term deep decarbonization pathways." Climate Policy: 1-21.
    • Gupta, D., & Dash. (2023). Challenges of implementing extended producer responsibility for plastic-waste management: lessons from India. Social Responsibility Journal.https://doi.org/10.1108/SRJ-08-2022-0326/FULL/PDF
    • 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 athttps://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
    • Public Policy
    • Energy & Environment Policy (Doctoral)

    Education:

    • B.E. (Hons) (Electronics and Electrical Communication), Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (6th rank in the batch of 60 students)
    • Fellow Program in Management, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (‘A’ grade in coursework)
    Invited speaker for module on Environment and Climate Change for 18th Round of Mid-Career Training Programme of IAS Officers Phase III at LBSNAA, Mussoorie.2023
    Invited speaker for workshop on “India - EU Knowledge and Technical Exchange on Low Carbon Modelling Tools” organized by GIZ, India2021
    Invited speaker for IMACLIM Annual Network meeting 2026 (Tunisia), 2019 (Cape Town), 2018 (Rio de Janeiro) and 2017 (Paris)2017-2026
    Keynote speaker for seminar on “Modal Shift: Implication of Transport Transitions in India Towards Sustainable Development Goals & Paris Climate Change Agreement” organized by IRISET, Hyderabad2020
    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 India2020
    Full scholarship for presenting the work titled “Macroeconomic assessment of India’s development and mitigation pathways” in Scenarios Forum, Colorado, US by University of Denver2019
    Scholarship for participating in International Summer School in Economic Modelling of Environment, Energy and Climate held at CIRED, Paris2017
    Secured 2nd Position in IEEE Paper Presentation, PEC, Chandigarh2006
    Secured 6th position (among 60 students) in B.E., PEC, Chandigarh2003-07
    All India Rank 608 (among 3 lakh students) in All India Engineering Entrance Exam2003
    All India Rank 445 (among 1.8 lakh students) in IITJEE prelims2003
    Awarded Distinction Certificate for standing amongst top 0.1 percent students across India in Social Science by CBSE2001
    Awarded 1st position (across all schools in Chandigarh, UT) in State Institute Mathematics Exam organized by Chandigarh Administration2001