Dr Srivastava is responsible for coordinating TERI's research agenda across the Institute and facilitating the implementation of the same. She is also Senior Vice President of TERI-NA (The Energy and Resources Institute, North America ), Washington DC , USA and Acting Vice Chancellor, TERI University. In her over 28 years of experience at TERI she has worked on a range of issues covering energy and environment policy/planning, energy economics and climate change. She has also held additional charge as Dean, Faculty of Policy and Planning, TERI University from June 2000 – June 2008. Dr Srivastava is a member of the Advisory Group on Energy and Climate of the UN Secretary General; Member, International Advisory Panel, Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute, Member, ESMAP Expert Panel on Sustainable Energy Supply, Poverty Reduction and Climate Change; an Independent Director on Reliance Infrastructure Ltd.; Member of the International Public Policy Advisory Board (IPPAB), The Coca Cola Company; Member, Board of Directors, Meridian Institute; Member of the Foresight Advisory Council of Suez Environment, Member, Council of Advisors for Fraunhofer India Member, Sustainable Development Advisory Board, Caterpillar Inc. USA and Member, Governing Board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She also serves on the research advisory boards of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan ; the Wuppertal Institute for Climate , Germany ; and the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Australia . She was the coordinating Lead Author for Working Group III of the Third Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and crosscutting theme Anchor on “Sustainable Development” for the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. Dr Srivastava was also a member of the Expert Committee to formulate India 's Energy Policy, Planning Commission, Government of India and Member, National Security Advisory Board, Government of India. In 2008, the Prime Minister of the French Republic awarded Dr Srivastava with the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms ( Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques ). She has also received a Certificate of Recognition from the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the IPCC for her contribution to the work of the IPCC . Dr Srivastava is on the Editorial Boards of various international journals dealing with energy and environment issues and has a number of publications to her credit. She has a Masters in Economics from the University of Hyderabad and a Ph.D in Energy Economics from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore , India.
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