Dr Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay is Professor and Chairperson, Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management (PGPSM) and Centre for Business Sustainability at IIM Lucknow. He brings with himself more than two decades of academic, policy research and administrative experiences. Prior to joining IIM Lucknow, he was engaged with International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) as a Principal Policy Adviser. In this capacity he has also been leading the work on UNEP India Mission on Measurement of SDG 12. c.1. Besides that, he was associated with India Consensus Project administered jointly by Tata Trust and Copenhagen Consensus Centre, USA.

He is currently a Member of the Advisory Committee on Green Entrepreneurship Council, CII Godrej Green Business Centre; Member of FICCI National Task Force on ESG; Member of the Steering Committee of Asia Pacific Resource Centre (APRC) of the UN Global Compact Network of India (UNGCNI); Member of the Board of Directors of Enterprise Incubation Centre at IIML and a Member of the Independent ESG Rating Review Committee, ICRA ESG Limited. In the recent past, he was engaged in a research project under the aegis of Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future Project, administered jointly by Yale University, Fletchers School at Tufts University and Sridath Ramphal Centre at the University of West Indies and involves studying the implication of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on Steel Sector in India. His notable engagement in the past includes serving as a member of the sub-group on transport sector formed by Government of India for providing inputs to the India Chapter of the Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) 2010 of International Energy Agency (IEA); columnist on energy sector with Financial Express; visiting faculty with United Nations University (UNU-IIST); visiting scholar with Asian Growth Institute (AGI), Japan under the aegis of the Kakenhi Grant of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS); transport specialist for a ADB commissioned project on Low Carbon Transport in India and China; invitee consultant with IEA/OECD; Economic officer with Finance Commission, Government of India and Research Officer to erstwhile UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Development.

He is the recipient of Springer Nature Best Author Award in 2025 and Wipro Earthian Faculty Mentor Award in 2018-19 and his research has been published in some of the leading scholarly journals with very high impact factors. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has also been involved in some of the high-level capacity building programmes for the senior and C-suite level executives of public and private sector.