Balachandra Patil has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, is an energy, environment, and sustainability expert, and is ranked among top 10 management researchers in India. He is ranked the number one researcher in the “Strategic Management” domain in India. He has 33 years of experience as a faculty at the Indian Institute of Science, and as a visiting expert at Harvard University, UNDP-Bangkok, AIT-Bangkok, and IGIDR-Mumbai. His research and professional expertise areas include energy and environmental economics and policy, sustainability transition, sustainable energy access, energy-technology-empowerment-sustainability nexus, climate change, and techno-economic and financial feasibility analysis. He has investigated about 48 research and consultancy assignments for UNDP, the European Commission, the World Bank, SIDA, SANEI, RCUK, AIT, TERI, IGIDR, DST, and various ministries of government of India and private sector organizations. He has co-authored six books and published about 150 papers in International and National journals, conferences, and edited books with an H-Index of 25. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. scholars (13 awarded and 16 ongoing). He was conferred with the distinguished alumni award of Manipal University in 2011.