Joyashree Roy is currently the inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. She is Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University (now on lien). She is the Founding advisor of Global Change Programme and Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Project at Jadavpur University. She was the national fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. She was Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow at LBNL, Berkeley, USA. She was in the IPCC-2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning panel. She is the Coordinating Lead Author in Fifth and Sixth assessment cycle of IPCC. She led a chapter of Global Energy Assessment. She was in the winning team of Prince Sultan Bin Aziz award for water. She has published more than 130 peer reviewed articles, authored and edited books. Her research interests are: Economics of Pollution, Climate Change, Modeling energy demand, Water quality demand, Water pricing, Sustainable development, Natural resource accounting, Valuing environmental services, Bangladesh energy sector.