Acting Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Leena Srivastava is the Acting Director General, TERI. She was the Vice Chancellor of the TERI University in addition to being the Hony. Executive Director at TERI, New Delhi from January 2012 to March 1, 2015.
Dr Srivastava is a member of various committees and Boards both at the international and national levels, she serves on the Executive Committee of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative of the UN Secretary General and the. At a think tank/science level Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP), UNEP; International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme Technology, Innovation and Society (TIS) and the Helmholtz Alliance Future Infrastructures for Meeting Energy Demands – Towards Sustainability and Social Compatibility Initiative (ENERGY-TRANS); High-Level Advisory Panel for the IEA’s forthcoming World Energy Outlook special report on energy and climate change; Research Advisory Committee, WWF-India.
She is a member on the boards of various private companies and research institutes.
Dr Srivastava is on the Editorial Boards of various international journals dealing with energy and environment issues and has a number of publications to her credit. She has a Masters in Economics from the University of Hyderabad and a Ph.D in Energy Economics from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.