Introduction | Archive | Apply | Contact Us
| This Week in Hall of Brain |

 

"The awards committee selected your research as being an outstanding contribution to international energy economics that represents an innovative application of solid economic analysis to an important policy issue. Your two papers provide a particularly valuable framework for evaluating market and non-market options for managing forest resources and should help stimulate other researchers to address related issues with the same care and clarity." This was the citation made by the President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) when he presented Mr. Ram Manohar Shrestha with the Energy Journal's Best Paper award.

Born in Baglung, Professor Shrestha completed his SLC from Vidhya Mandir High School in Baglung and then I.Sc from Amrit Science College. He did B.Eng. in 1973 from India and went on to complete M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Asian Institute of Technology. He is now a professor of Energy Economics and Planning at the School of Environment, Resources and Development, AIT, Bangkok. A veteran of more than 150 International Journal, Conference and Workshop Papers, Professor Ram Manohar has supervised 28 sponsored projects. This is indeed an immense amount of knowledge possessed by a Nepalese son, who can be counted equally intellectual in any intellectual gathering of the world.

Following is a snippet of his 30 pages long description of his remarkable academic and professional achievement:

SUPERVISION OF SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS:

1. “Global Environmental Outlook-4 (GEO-4) Project” (for a part of Asia-Pacific regional analysis component) funded by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi (Principal Investigator: Ram M. Shrestha)

2. “Strategic Database of Energy and Air Pollution in ASEAN and South Asian Countries”, funded by Mizhuo Research Institute Corporation, Japan (Principal Investigator: Ram M. Shrestha)

3. “Energy Access” funded by Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD), Denmark (Principal Investigators: Ram M. Shrestha and S. Kumar)

4. “Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs)” funded by Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD), Denmark , (Principal Investigators: Ram M. Shrestha and S. Kumar)

5. “Energy and Poverty: Knowledge and Analytical Support” funded by UNDP, New York (Principal Investigators: Ram M. Shrestha and S. Kumar)

6. “Energy and Environmental Innovation Strategies and Database”, funded by FRIC Japan (Principal Investigator: Ram M. Shrestha)

7. “Capacity building for Clean Development Mechanism”, funded byUNEP Risdoe Centre on Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development , Denmark (Principal Investigators: Ram M. Shrestha and S. Kumar)

[There are 21 more similar projects he supervised.]

Books:

1. Ram M. Shrestha, S. Sharma, S. Kumar and G. Timilsina, 2005, Baseline Methodologies for Clean Development Mechanism Project: A Guidebook, UNEP Ris Center on Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Deevlopment, Roskilde, Denmark (forthcoming ).

2. S.C. Bhattacharya and Ram M. Shrestha, 1991, Biocoal: Technology and Economics, Regional Energy Resources Information Center, Bangkok.

3. N.J.D. Lucas, Ram M. Shrestha et al., 1987, Energy Policies in Asia: A comparative Study, McGraw-Hill, Singapore.

Refereed International Journal Papers:

1. Ram M. Shrestha and Charles O.P. Marpaung, 2005, Integrated Resource Planning in the Power Sector and Economy-wide Changes in Environmental Emissions, Energy Policy, forthcoming.

2. Ram M. Shrestha, Gabrial Anandarajah, Sushil Adhikari, Kejun Jiang and Zhu Xongli, 2005, “Energy and Environmental Implications of NOx Emission Reduction from the Transport Sector of Beijing: A Least-cost Planning Analysis”, Transportation Research Part –D, Vol. 10, No.1, pp.1-11.

3. Ram M Shrestha, Nazrul Islam, N T Kim Oanh, Sushil Adhikari, Sudhakar Yedla, 2005, Strategies for Promotion of Cleaner and Energy Efficient Technologies in the Urban Transport System in Selected Asian Cities, International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Special Issue, (forthcoming).

4. Ram M. Shrestha, 2004, “Technological Implications of Clean Development Mechanism in the Power Sector in Three Asian Countries”, International Review for Environmental Strategies, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 273-288.

[There are 62 more such journal papers.]

Conference Papers:

1. Ram M. Shrestha and Sunil Malla, 2005, A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Carbon Tax in Developing Countries: The Case of Thailand, 28th IAEE International Conference, 3-6 June 2005, Taipei, Taiwan.

2. Ram M. Shrestha and A.M.A.K. Abeygunawardana, 2004, CO2 Emission Reductions due to Renewable Power Generation Projects under a Competitive Electricity Market, 24th Annual North American Conference of USAEE/IAEE, July 8 - 10, Washington, DC, USA.

[There are 46 more such conference papers.]

We should be all proud of this Nepalese son. We take this opportunity to include him as a member of 'Nepalese Hall of Brain'.