Speaker

Shanti GAMPER-RABINDRAN

Associate Professor - University of Pittsburgh

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and specializes in energy, environmental and economic development issues.

She edited and contributed to The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). This volume brings together energy and environmental experts on five continents to explain how countries reach their decisions to pursue or eschew shale. The Shale Dilemma recommends practical steps to help countries reach more transparent and more far-sighted decisions.

Shanti served as the Bley Stein Visiting Professor at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and as visiting associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She was recognized with a Faculty Fellowship in Sustainability, having helped launch the Masters-level program in Global Energy and the Environment.  She has conducted work for the World Bank, the Environmental Protection Agency and Human Rights Watch.

Her peer-reviewed publications examine the interaction of governments and markets in the wind energy transition, the effectiveness of corporation social responsibility programs, the nexus of trade and the environment, and the impact of public good provision on public health.

Shanti Gamper holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the MIT. She completed an M.Sc. in Environmental Management and a B.A. in Jurisprudence at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Selected Publications:

The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development. University of Pittsburgh Press (2018), 

Markets, states and the federal government in the transition to wind energy, Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law (2018), 

Website: www.shanti1.weebly.com