Pavan Sukhdev
- January 5, 2024
- Economist
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Pavan Sukhdev Biography
| Name | Pavan Sukhdev |
| Birthday | Mar 30 |
| Birth Year | 1960 |
| Place Of Birth | Delhi |
| Birth Country | India |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Pavan Sukhdev is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on March 30, 1960 in Delhi, India. A banker from the world, Pavan was deeply involved in the development of India’s interest rate, currency and derivatives markets during the mid-nineties. He was involved in working with the Indian regulators and market participants. He has been a part of various Reserve Bank of India (RBI) committees to promote the growth of India’s financial market, which includes the Sodhani Committee on Foreign Exchange Markets. In 1997, Pavan was a co-founder of FIMMDA (Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India) India’s professional association that deals with fixed-income markets, derivatives and money markets. He was a proponent of the introduction of the Overnight Indexed Swap (OIS) to India and it is now the world’s most liquid instruments for interest rates swaps.
UNEP has appointed Pavan as the head of its most important initiative to show that greening of the economy is not an obstacle to growth but instead a catalyst to grow and a source of jobs, and an approach to alleviate poverty. The report’s final version Towards a Green Economy of the Green Economy Initiative was presented at the UNEP’s general Council meeting in Nairobi on February 11, 2011. Pavan continues to be a strong supporter of this initiative as an UNEP Goodwill Ambassador.
He is the Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a specialist consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital. In recognition of his continuing work in helping governments and corporations transition towards a Green Economy, UNEP appointed Pavan as the UNEP Goodwill Ambassador in the year 2012. He was also selected as the “Personality of the Year” by, Environmental Finance in the year 2010. The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM) have awarded Pavan their 2011 Medal.
From 2017 he is president of the World Wide Fund for Nature and succeeded Yolanda Kakabadse in this position. His first term is about to end 2021.
Pavan was the chair of The Global Agenda Council on Biodiversity and Ecosystems for the World Economic Forum (2009-2011) to analyze the challenges of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degrading loss in the context global risk and global cooperation. He addresses the annual Forum meetings in Davos.
Pavan Sukhdev Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Economist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Pavan Sukhdev is one of the richest Economist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pavan Sukhdev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Pavan was chosen by the German Environment Minister Gabriel as well as EU Environmental Commissioner Dimas as Study Leader of their G8+5 study on the Ecosystems’ Economic Value as well as Biodiversity(TEEB). The TEEB’s Interim Report (2008), was widely praised because of its new economic perspective and for demonstrating the economic importance of the depletion of nature’s ecosystem services and for linking the ecological and economic aspects of biodiversity with equity, ethics, as well as the elimination of poverty. This Interim Report of TEEB was presented at the Ministerial Session of COP-9 of the Convention of Biological Diversity (Bonn,2008) and the final report (a series of five solutions-oriented studies) were unveiled during CBD Cop-10 (Nagoya, 2010). These reports have gained a lot of popularity with governments from both developed and developing countries as well as with business leaders as well as conservation NGOs. Later in 2011 in his work as McCluskey Fellow McCluskey Fellow 2011 Pavan developed and taught an entire 25-lecture, 3-credit post-graduate course in TEEB in Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
His writings comprise two opinions in Nature (2009 as well as 2012) as well as a variety of articles published by The Guardian, and an opinion piece for The Economist Debate. Since 2000, he’s regularly written for a variety of Indian magazines and newspapers (Economic Times, Indian Express, Sanctuary) to promote the idea in the form of “Green GDP” in India that measures the growth of the economy holistically instead of measuring production growth and “GDP growth” as a measure of progress.
Pavan was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University from 2011 to 2014, where he was awarded the McCluskey Fellowship. Whilst at Yale, he wrote the book “Corporation 2020” which envisions tomorrow’s corporation, and shows how corporations and society can and should work together to achieve common goals and build a green economy.
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Pavan Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Pavan Sukhdev celebrates birthday on March 30 of every year.