[Assam] Dr R K Pachuari -- TERI

[Ram Sarangapani]

Hi KC,

It does look like RK Pachauri has a few notches under his belt & thats quite
a good resume.

So, what makes him a non-expert? While it is possible that inspite of all
these accolades, that his reasoning may still be at fault, but I think there
are other reasons.

And those reasons are (at least for some people), that SINCE RKP represents
India, and since RKP is probably a successful product of the Indian
Educational system, by default, it must all be bad.

IMHO, the important thing is (how) does one make a determination who is an
expert and who isn't? It may be  an involved process, but the one thing that
does need to be eliminated from that decision-making is where that candidate
hails from.

--Ram da


On 7/3/07, Krishnendu Chakraborty <krish_gau at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Ram-da
>
>
> Here is a brief biography of RK Pachuari ----
> http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/bios/pachauri.htm
>
> and TERI means Tata Energy Research Institute.
>
> A few International achivements of Dr Pachuari are --
>
> Chairman of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
> Change), established by World Meteorological
> Organization
>
> University of Raleigh, NC ----  MS in Industrial
> Engineering in 1972, a PhD in Industrial Engineering
> and a PhD in Economics, and also served as Assistant
> Professor (August 1974 -- May 1975) and Visiting
> Faculty Member (Summer 1976 and 1977) in the
> Department of Economics and Business.
>
> Visiting Professor, Resource Economics at the College
> of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia
> University (August 1981 -- August 1982); Senior
> Visiting Fellow, Resource Systems Institute, East --
> West Center, USA (May -- June 1982); and Visiting
> Research Fellow, The World Bank, Washington, DC (June
> -- September 1990).
>
> Member, Board of the International Solar Energy
> Society (ISES), 1991 -- 1997; Member, World Resources
> Institute (WRI) Council, 1992; Chairman, Work Group A
> -- World Energy Council (WEC) Committee on Developing
> Countries, 1993 -- 1995; President (1988), Chairman
> (1989 -- 90), International Association for Energy
> Economics (IAEE), Washington, D C .; President, Asian
> Energy Institute, 1992 onwards.
>
>
>
> ************************************
>
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>
> Mukul da,
> **
> *>But he is typical of Indian Non-Expertize.*
>
> Don't know anything about RK Pachauri. But what is a
> typical "Indian
> Non-Expertize"?
>
> Does that include us NRAs/NRIs - after all, most of us
> did come from a
> Gauhati/Dibrugarh Medical College, IIT, IIM,
> Cotton/GU, or schools named
> after saints.
>
> And what about all those in India itself - that
> produce, desgn aircrafts,
> trains, other machinery etc. T
>
> And does that EXCLUDE select people from Assam?
>
> Frankly, the way you sound, it looks like India is
> full of idiots! :)
>
> --Ram
>
>
>
>
>
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