Carbon Border Adjustments and Pathways to International Cooperation: Insights from Steel Decarbonization in India

Kasturi Das

Visiting Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellow and an esteemed scholar from IMT Ghaziabad, India

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Professor Kasturi Das is 2024-2025 Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellow for Academic & Professional Excellence (Research) and Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP) at the Yale School of the Environment. Professor Das’ research project at Yale explores the role of the global trading system in supporting industrial decarbonization and just transition in hard-to-abate sectors in developing countries, with a particular focus on steel industry in India.

A Professor at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, Delhi-NCR (IMTG), India, Professor Das has been holding multiple advisory positions in India and globally in the field of trade and the environment including in the Government of India’s High-level Advisory Committee on Trade and the Environment, World Economic Forum's Expert Group on Trade and Climate Change; International Advisory Network of the Forum on Trade, Environment and the SDGs (TESS), among others. As Member of the Climate Strategies, UK, Professor Das has co-led multiple research projects on trade-climate interface.

A PhD in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, she has published extensively in the field of trade and climate change in leading scholarly journals including Nature, American Journal of International Law, Annual Review of Environment of Resources, Global Environmental Change. She has delivered numerous invited talks and lectures, and has consulted with multiple institutions across geographies.

In 2019, Professor Das visited the University of Oxford as a Chevening Research, Science, and Innovation Leadership (CRISP) Fellow of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). In 2011, she was hosted by the University of East Anglia as the Governance of Clean Development Visiting Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In 2007, she visited the University of Cambridge as a Ford Foundation Fellow.

As a management professor and founding head of the I’M The Change Initiative on Sustainability & Social Responsibility at IMTG since 2016, Professor Das conceptualized and developed from scratch an innovative, service-learning course for management students and got it executed for seven years already, touching lives of thousands of peoples belonging to under-served communities. Under her leadership, I’M The Change won the ‘Innovations the Inspire Challenge 2018’ of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International. In 2023, Professor Das was awarded the Wipro-Earthian Research Grant for developing a first-of-its-kind research compendium on service-learning courses in leading Indian management schools. 

Professor Das - an ardent advocate of Indian handloom and handicrafts - has been engaged in scholarly and practice-oriented research and capacity building on Geographical Indications for two and a half decades now.

Professor Das is an Indian who speaks Bengali (her mother tongue), Hindi and English. An avid nature-lover, she loves travelling, exploring new culture and culinary experiences, watching movies and listening to music.