Susmita Dasgupta

Dr. Susmita Dasgupta is a Lead Environmental Economist at The World Bank.
She is specializing in environmental management in developing countries.
She has conducted extensive analysis on the health hazards of pollution, the poverty-environment nexus, priority setting in pollution control, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the impacts of climate change on coastal zones and climate extremes, climate change adaptation, cost-effective regulations, and monitoring and enforcement of regulations.
Her research activities have focused on Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Madagascar, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Vietnam, and the Republic of Yemen.
She holds a B.
Sc from Presidency College, India; an M.
Sc.
from University of Calcutta, India; an M.
Sc.
and a Ph.
D.
in economics from the State University of New York at Albany.