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'''Kirit S. Parikh''' is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of [[Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research]] (IGIDR), [[Mumbai]], [[India]]. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to [[United Nations Development Programme]] from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of the [[Economic Advisory Council]] (EAC) for multiple [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Ministers of India]]: [[Rajiv Gandhi]], [[Vishwanath Pratap Singh|V.P.Singh]], [[Chandra Shekhar]], [[P.V. Narasimha Rao]] and [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]].<br />
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Parik is a [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/Padma-Bhushan-for-4-Gujaratis/amp_articleshow/4031580.cms|title=Padma Bhushan for 4 Gujaratis|first=Ankur|last=Jain|date=26 Jan 2009|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|location=[[Ahmedabad]]}}</ref> He completed his B.E. in Civil Engineering from [[Gujarat University]], India in 1956. In 1957 he did his M.Tech. (Structures) from [[Indian Institute of Technology]] [[IIT Kharagpur|Kharagpur]]. He has a D.Sc. in civil engineering and a master's degree in economics from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], USA.<ref name=alumni>{{cite web |url=http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/top-awardees/daa1.php?Sl=25 |title=Distinguish Alumnus Awardee |work=iitkgp.ac.in |access-date=21 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217001353/http://iitkgp.ac.in/top-awardees/daa1.php?Sl=25 |archive-date=17 December 2010 }}</ref> He is also a Fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India|National Academy of Sciences]], India. He has been the editor of "India Development Reports" which provide a non-governmental assessment of India's development and policy options. Apart from these, he has been a member of numerous other boards of directors.<ref name=alumni/> He has also authored and co-authored more than 15 books in the areas of planning, water resource management, appropriate technology for housing, optimum requirement for fertilizers, energy systems, national and international food policies, trade policies, general equilibrium modeling and natural resources accounting. He has also published numerous articles.<ref name=alumni/> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 2009, for his contributions to public affairs.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref><br />
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