Professor Shaleen Singhal is Director of the Emerson Centre of Excellence for Sustainability Studies at the TERI School of Advanced Studies. Dr Singhal had served the Dean positions at TERI SAS from 2020-24. He had been a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Yale University in 2018, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and had been the Lecturer in Sustainability Design at University of Ulster, UK. He has over 27 years of research, consulting, teaching, and academic administration experience in India and the UK. He is a board member of ProSPER.Net alliance in Asia-Pacific region; member of the Technical Advisory Committee, Department of Science & Technology, Government of Gujarat; and member of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project Council, US. He led establishment of the Emerson Centre at TERI SAS and had also worked with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Tata Trusts towards establishing a think tank focusing on applied sustainability solutions. He had secured grants for multi-disciplinary research assignments on thematics such as public policy and planning, sustainable smart cities, energy and climate change, sustainable consumption and production, eco-system based solutions, and Science-Policy-Practice interface. Some of his recent research and consulting assignments have been funded by The World Bank, TNC US, MoHUA, TNC India, UNEP and UNESCAP.

His PhD from Ulster of University, UK received the Global Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award 2009; and the Best Thesis in Built Environment, University of Ulster, Faculty Award 2009. Inter-disciplinary research by Professor Singhal and his PhD scholars, examines the challenges and develops policy recommendations and solutions for sustainability. Prof. Singhal contributes as an external Ph.D. examiner, doctoral committee member, advisory panel and guest faculty at leading universities focused on infrastructure and built environment, and as reviewer of leading international journals. He provides intellectual leadership and advances frontiers of research through partnerships with leading institutions globally.

Publications:

• Singhal, S., & Jain, S. 2020. Smart sustainable cities. In N. Ciecierska-Holmes, K. Jörgensen, L. L. Ollier, & D. Raghunandan (Eds.), Environmental policy in India. New York: Routledge.
• Singhal, S. and Kumar, M. 2020. Ecological environment, competitiveness in emerging economies: a case of urban India. In Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City, edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, ISBN: 9781839107474, 264 pp.
• Jain, S. Singhal, S. Jain, N. K. and Bhaskar, K. 2020. Construction and demolition waste recycling: Investigating the role of theory of planned behavior, institutional pressures and environmental consciousness. Journal of Cleaner Production, 121405.
• Kumar, P. Arora, A. and Singhal, S. 2017. Public Transit User Captivity in Delhi: A Case Study of Metro Rail and Bus Users in Nehru Place Business District. Transportation in Development Economies, 3:22, Springer International Publishing.
• Dhakal, S. Shrestha, A. Singhal, S. Moloney, S. Vaughter, P. Darnsawasdi, R. Kim, S. M. Pharino, C. and Haryono, E. 2017. Policy Brief on Transformation towards Climate Compatible Cities. UNU-IAS Policy Brief.
• Singhal, S. Mcgreal, S. and Berry, J. 2013. An evaluative model for city competitiveness: application to UK cities. Land Use Policy 30, pp. 214-222.
• Singhal, S. Mcgreal, S. and Berry, J. 2012. Application of a hierarchical model for city competitiveness in cities of India. Cities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2012.05.012.
• Singhal, S. Newell, G. and Nguyen, K. 2011. The significance and performance of infrastructure in India. Journal of Property Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, 15 – 34.
• Singhal, S. Berry, J. and Mcgreal, S. 2009. A framework for assessing regeneration, business strategies and urban competitiveness. Local Economy, Vol. 24 (2).
• Pachauri, R.K. Singhal, S. Kandra, H.S. 2004. Environment. In India 2025: Social, Economic and Political stability. Ed. R. K. Sinha, CPR, New Delhi.
• Singhal, S. and Kapur, A. 2002. Industrial Estate Planning and Management in India - an Integrated Approach Towards Industrial Ecology. Journal of Environmental Management, Elsevier, 2002.