RAMESH KUMAR BHATIA

President           

Resources and Environment Group (REG)

SU-125 Vishakha Enclave Delhi 110034

INDIA

EMAIL: rameshbhatia77@yahoo.com

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AND

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President, Resources and Environment Group (REG), New Delhi

Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Senior Economist, deLucia and Associates, 5 Hastings Square, Cambridge, MA

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS

1996-1999 Member, Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), Global Water Partnership, World Bank-UNDP-SIDA, Stockholm (Currently Senior TAC Advisor) -

1993-1997 Member, Scientific Committee on Water Research (SCOWAR), International Council of Scientific Unions,

1997-present Member, Panel of Eminent Persons on Power, Ministry of Power, Government of India, New Delhi

1998-present Member, Steering Committee, India Water Partnership, New Delhi

1997-present Member, Editorial Board, Water Policy , Elsevier Science , Oxford, UK

1993 to 1996 Global Program Leader, International Irrigation Management Institute, Colombo

1992 to 1993 Energy Economist, Alternative Energy Unit, Asia Technical Dept.,

The World Bank, Washington D.C.

1990 to 1992 Water Resources Specialist, Infrastructure Department, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

1978 to 1990 Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India

1979 to 1981 Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Research Experience in Water Resources Management

•Integrated Water Resources Management

Industrial Water Use :Regulation and Policy Instruments

Urban Water Demand Management and Pricing in Indonesia and India

Willingness/Ability-To-Pay for Water in Rural Areas: Surveys and Analyses

Willingness-to-Pay Methodology for Water in Rural Areas in India, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

Water Use Efficiency and Productivity in Irrigated Agriculture

Performance Indicators for large irrigation schemes

Irrigation Water Pricing and Cost Recovery in India

Select Publications

BOOKS

Water as a Social and Economic Good: How to Operationalize the Principle? TAC Paper # 2, published by the Technical Advisory Committee of Global Water Partnership, August 1998 (with Peter Rogers and A.Huber);

Water Conservation and Reallocation: Best Practice Cases in Improving

Economic Efficiency and Environmental Quality. World Bank: Washington,

D.C. 1995 (with Rita Cestti and J. Winpenny).

Planning for the Petroleum and Fertilizer Industries, A Programming Model, Oxford University Press, 1983

Socioeconomic Aspects of Renewable Energy Technologies. Praeger: New York. 1988. (edited with A. Pereira);

Economic Appraisal of Irrigation Projects in India: A Case Study in Social Benefit Cost Analysis. Agricole Publishing Academy: New Delhi. 1982. (with Basawan Sinha)

Financing Irrigation Services: A Literature- Review and Selected Case Studies from Asia. International Irrigation Management Institute, Sri Lanka, 1989 (with Leslie Small and others)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Productivity and Profitability of Paddy Production in the Muda Scheme, Malaysia, Water Resources Development, vol. 11, No. 1 , 1995 pp 39-59 (with U.Amarsinghe and K.Imbulana)

Contingent Valuation and Actual Behavior: Predicting Connections to New Water Systems in the State of Kerala, India The World Bank Economic Review, Vol.9, No.3, 1995 (with Charles Griffin, John Briscoe, B. Singh, Radhika Ramasubban).

Rural Water Supply in Kerala, India: How to Emerge from a Low-Level Equilibrium Trap, Water Resources Research. July 1993 (with B. Singh, R. Ramasubban, J. Briscoe, C. Griffin, C. Kim).

Planning for the Subernarekha river system in Eastern India, Sadhana, Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India, vol. 8, Part 3, May 1985, pp 291-309 (with Basawan Sinha and S.Lahiri)

"Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Biogas Engines in India", World Development, Vol. 18, No. 4. 1990.

Energy and Agriculture in Developing Countries. Energy Policy, Vol.13, No. 4. 1985.

"Least‑Cost Strategies for Reducing CO₂ Emissions in India", Energy Policy, 1991.

"Energy Demand Analysis in Developing Countries: A Review". The Energy Journal, 1987.

“Household Demand for Energy :Analysis of Pricing”; The Energy Journal, Special Issue, 1988

"Economics of Wind Electricity Generation: Analytical Framework and Illustrative Results", Pacific and Asia Journal of Energy (PAJE), 1990.