Jyoti Kirit Parikh is the current Executive Director of Integrated Research and Action for Development IRADe.
She was a [https://archivepmo.nic.in/drmanmohansingh/committeescouncils_details.php?nodeid=7 Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change –India and is a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize awarded To IPCC authors in 2007.
She was a Senior Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.
She also worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria and served as a senior energy consultant at the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) (1978–80).
She was a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of UNU, Tokyo (1995–96).
She was the Acting Director of IGIDR for 1997-98.
She has experience for nearly thirty years on energy and environment problems of the developing countries.