Professor Nawn is an economist by disciplinary training with a doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He teaches courses in the interface of Environment, Development, and Economics. His present research interests are in Ecological Economics, Environment and Development and Economics of Ecological Restoration. Before joining TERI SAS in May 2014 as an Associate Professor, he taught at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata since 2001. He became Professor under TERI SAS CAS 2020 w.e.f. 04.04.2018. His works have been published in Journal of Agrarian Change, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, and Biological Conservation, among others. He has co-edited volumes published by Springer and Sage. He was the Head, Department of Policy Studies, TERI SAS (2017-18), Secretary, Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) (2016-18), Managing Editor, Ecology, Economy and Society – the INSEE Journal (2018-21) and co-editor of (Annual) Review of Environment and Development, Economic and Political Weekly (2016-2021). He has been a recipient of doctoral fellowships from University Grants Commission and Salary Protected Indian Council of Social Science Research at Institute of Economic Growth, and Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrator Seminars scholarship, besides being an Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He is presently Coordinator of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), TERI SAS and Leader, Bioeconomy programme, Preparatory stage proposal to 'National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-Being' approved by Prime Minister’s Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC), funded by Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. He maintains a blog at https://nawnsense.medium.com/ and a LinkedIn profile.

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Publications

• (2021) (with K Bawa et al.) Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national Mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India Biological Conservation 253: 108867. ISSN: 0006-3207
• (2020) (with S Vasan and K Bawa) 'Biodiversity-focused Development Ways to Sustain Human Well-being. Review of Environment and Development, Economic and Political Weekly LV (49): 27-28. ISSN: 0012-9976.
• (2020) (with K Bawa et al.) Envisioning a biodiversity science for sustaining human well-being.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America 117 (42): 25951–25955. ISSN: 1091-6490.
• (2019) (with S Vasan) Labouring Nature, Labour in Nature: Intertwinings and Intersectionalities’ Review of Environment and Development, Economic and Political Weekly LIV (37): 33-34. ISSN: 0012-9976.
• (2018) (with V Dayal and A Duraiappah) eds., Ecology, Economy and Society: Essays in Honour of Kanchan ChopraSpringer. ISBN 978-981-10-5675-8
• (2018) (with S Vasan and A Kothari) Situating Agroecology in the Environment–Development Matrix, Review of Environment and Development, Economic and Political Weekly LIII (41): 50-51. ISSN: 0012-9976
• (2017) (with S Vasan and A Kothari) Introductionto Review of Environment and Development, Economic and Political Weekly LII (31): 41-43. ISSN: 0012-9976
• (2017) (with P Mukhopadhyay and K Das) eds., Global Change, Ecosystems, Sustainability: Theory, Methods, Practice,Sage for Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE). ISBN: 978-938-64-4646-6,.
• (2016) Sustaining the Farming Household for Sustaining the Farming, Journal of Agrarian Change 16 (1): 94–122. ISSN: 1471-0358.
• (2016) (with M Das and S Kar) eds., Economic Challenges for the Contemporary World: Essays in Honour of Prabhat Patnaik, Sage. ISBN: 978-93-515-0878-6.
• (2015) For Sustainable SDGs: Righting Through Responsibilities, Journal of Human development and Capabilities 16 (4): 625-630. ISSN: 1945-2829.
• (2015) Energetics of Irrigation under Surplus Rainfall conditions, in A Shah, M Panda, N Ghosh, and P Mukhopadhyay, eds., Nature, Economy, and Society: Understanding the Linkages, Indian Society for Ecological Economics and Springer. ISBN 978-81-322-2403-7
• (2013) Using Cost of Cultivation Survey data: Changing challenges for researchers, Economic and Political Weekly 58 (26 & 27): 139–147. ISSN. 0012–9976.