Prof. Amitava Mitra is currently a senior professor in the Department of Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University (Central), Itanagar. He has done his post graduation from the Centre of Economics Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and was awarded a Ph.D from Dibrugarh University, Assam. He has been associated with teaching and research, and has been a top level administrator at Rajiv Gandhi University for last thirty six years. He was also a Fulbright Fellow in Academic Administration in 2014. He has authored several books and a large number of research papers in reputed national and international journals in areas of environmental economics, policy, and development economics.