[Assam] Dr R K Pachuari -- TERI

[Krishnendu Chakraborty]

As a matter of fact,  if RKP's reasoning is all bad,
the US education system must also be Dysfunctional. 
He got his Masters and PhD from US


Or is it the same old Ant and Grasshopper story :)


--- Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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