Professional Services

• Associate Editor, World Development (2024-26)
• Associate Editor, Agricultural Economics (2023-26)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Water Economics (2024-27)
• Chair—International Committee for Women in Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economics (September 2020-24)
• Contributing Author to IPCC AR 6 Working Group II Chapter 4: Water

Academic Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo
• Adjunct Professor, Texas A & M University
• Global Fellow, Daugherty Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska

Doctoral Students

As co-advisor

• Archisman Mitra (Vrije Universiteit >> The World Bank)

As committee member

• Kodjo Barnor (Texas A & M University)
• Subhransu Pattanaik  (University of Goettingen)
• Elisha Ochieng (University of Waterloo)
• Ishani Palandurkar (Pennsylvania State University)

Masters’ Students (with thesis)

As co-advisor

• Richard Hardy (University of Queensland>>Balmoral Group)

As committee member

• Ishani Lal (University of Nebraska >>Sentinel)
• Tinusha Ghimre (McGill University>>Government of Alberta)
• Joseph Price (Oxford University>>UNEP)
• Loung Vuong (Leeds University)

Bachelors’ Students (with project)

• Abraar Ahmed (George Washington University>>Global Center on Adaptation)
• Yashmika Balakrishnan (Ruhuna University>>Government of Sri Lanka)
• Isuru Tharanga  (Ruhuna University>>Texpert Environmental Engineering)

Teaching

• Tutorial-classes for graduate-level environmental economics (Duke University; 2008-10)
• Tutorials for graduate-level methods in non-market valuation (Duke University, 2007-11)

Lectures

• ‘Solar irrigation for sustainable development’, International Centre for Applied Systems Science for Sustainable Development Third Research School, Toronto, May 2025.
• ‘Water-energy-food-poverty in South Asia: paradoxes, pitfalls, knowledge gaps’, Mcgill University, Quebec, February 2025. 
• ‘Solar irrigation: from hubris to humility’, Mcgill University, Quebec, May 2024
• ‘Solar irrigation: from hubris to humility’, Duke University, North Carolina, April 2024
• ‘Solar irrigation: from hubris to humility’, CambridgeUniversity, England, October 2023
• ‘Environment & Development Economics: Research for Policy’, Kristu Jayanti University Distinguished Lecture Series, Bangalore, March 2023. 
• ‘Environment & Development Economics: Research for Policy’, Hansraj College Distinguished Lecture Series, New Delhi, February 2023. 
• ‘Sanitation services for rural Bangladesh: costs and willingness to pay’, Duke University, North Carolina, January 2018.
• ‘Establishing the costs and willingness to pay for emptying and transporting sludge in rural districts with high rates of access to latrines’, Duke University, Durham, November 2016.

Referee Services

• Disciplinary journals: Agricultural Economics; American Journal of Agriculture Economics; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Ecological Economics; Environment and Development Economics; Agricultural and Resource Economics Review; Journal of Agrarian Change; Water Resources and Economics; Water Economics and Policy
• Multidisciplinary journals: Food Policy, World Development, World Development Perspectives, PLOS One; Environmental Research Letters; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development; Climate and Development; International Journal of Water Resource Development; Hydrogeology Journal
• Organizations: International Water Management Institute; International Center for Integrated Mountain Development; Food and Agriculture Organization; South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics;  NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development Program; UKRI Economics and Social Research Council.