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E. Somanathan is Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, awarded in 1995. His research focuses on the economics of environment and development. He has held previous faculty positions at Emory University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Princeton University. Somanathan heads the Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE), which he founded at the Indian Statistical Institute. He has served as Executive Director of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) and as a Coordinating Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is a Co-Editor of the journal Environment and Development Economics and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.