Shyamasree did her graduation from Asutosh College, Kolkata and post graduation from Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests revolve around the area of sustainable development, environment, health and education.  

She has worked as a Junior Research Fellow in a project on ‘Revisiting Education for All’ supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) which was a field based quantitative study of the situation of schooling in rural North India. 

Shymasree completed her M.Phil from the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University. She was awarded the SYLFF Fellowship for her M.Phil research (2009-2010) which sought to understand the productivity growth and climate change mitigation potential of Indian manufacturing sector. Currently she is enrolled in the same department as a doctoral fellow and has won the SYLFF Fellowship for her doctoral project (2011-13).

Her research interests revolve around the area of sustainable development- a three pillar (economic, social and environmental) approach focusing on long-term changes across local and global scales, including innovations in technology, institutions and behaviour. The adoption of National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in India in 2008 is a move towards ensuring the country’s sustainability, secure and efficient energy use and designing comprehensive policies towards climate change mitigation. As the success of such an experimental policy like NAPCC would depend on several sustainability criteria, her research focuses on the researching NAPCC creating opportunities and barriers towards sustainability transition of the development pathway in India, the extent to which NAPCC could achieve environmental sustainability, especially with respect to energy use and its social viability. Her research is expected to generate a framework for evaluation and a literary database evaluating the role of climate change mitigation policies towards sustainable development in India.

Shyamasree spends her leisure hours reading books and watching movies.

Email: shyamasree.dasgupta@gmail.com