Indian Research Scholars Association
Organizing
Distinguished Lecture on
Gender in the Political Economy of Energy
10 March, 2025
Invited Guest and Speaker: Prof. Govind Kelkar, Executive Director GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation Gurgaon, India & Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Brief About the Speaker: Dr. Govind Kelkar, PhD in Political Economy of China, is a Professor and Executive Director at GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation LLP, India, as well as a Visiting Professor at Council for Social Development, India, and the Institute for Human Development, India. She was a Senior Adviser at Landesa/Rural Development Institute, Seattle, USA (May 2013-March 2020) and a Regional Council Member of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Chiang Mai, Thailand. In her concurrent assignments, Professor. Kelkar was the International Research Coordinator of ENERGIA International, The Netherlands, and research lead on Gender and Energy at M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India. She is a Distinguished Adjunct Faculty of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. Professor Kelkar has the position of an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Yunnan, China, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Earlier, from April 2004 to March 2012, she worked as a senior Advisor in Programme and Research, Economic Empowerment Unit, UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India, and coordinated Gender Mainstreaming in Asia, a region-wide program of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for 6 years. She has previously taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. At AIT, Professor Kelkar founded the graduate program in Gender Development Studies and the Gender, Technology, and Development Journal, published by SAGE and now by Routledge India. Govind Kelkar resides in Gurgaon, India. She has extensively worked on gender relations in rural energy and women’s land rights in Asia. She has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and written 16 books focusing on gender relations in Asia. She has been in close touch with the women’s movements in the region. She has recently completed two projects on gender and energy. 1. The Gender Factor in Political Economy of Energy Sector Dynamics (DFID-ENERGIA International supported) 2. Identifying Drivers and Barriers to Sustained Adoption of LPG as Clean Cooking Energy: Applying Lessons from India’s LPG Programme to Nepal and Myanmar (MECS and DFID supported). Her recent book is ‘Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation (co-authored), Cambridge University Press, 2020.’
Organising Committee Members
Vikash Kumar, President of the Indian Research Scholars Association
Dr. Hemant Kumar, Post Doctoral Fellow, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ganeshi Lal, Research Scholar, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
Rimlee Kalita, Research Scholar, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
Mrs. Asha Rajpurohit, Assistant Professor Government College, Sailana
Manorama Kuntal Department of Political Science Jamia Millia Islamia
Sakshi Singh, Research Scholar, Faculty of Education, Banaras Hindu University, Kashi, BHU
Shubhangi Amble, Research Scholar Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Maharashtra
Aaysha Zameer, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi
Anurag Yadav, Research Scholar, School of Law, Pondicherry University, Puducherry
Papi Halder, Ph.D. Scholar, Lucknow University
Sunita V Yadav, Research Scholar at D.T.S.S COLLEGE Mumbai Maharashtra
Arpanpreet Kaur, Research Scholar, Central University of Punjab
Sunita V Yadav, Research Scholar at D.T.S.S COLLEGE Mumbai Maharashtra
Naina Prasad, Research Scholar, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha
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