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SUBODH MANGESH WAGLE

Residence: A 20, B. K. Avenue, Survey No. 87/10-A, Azad Nagar, New D. P. Road,Opposite Paranjape School, Kothrud, Pune, 411 038, India

Phone: +91 (20) 6561 5594, 9422009406 [Office] 98222 86682 [Personal Mobile]

Office: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, V. N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai, 400088

Phone: +91 (22) 2556 3289/3290 (Ext. 324)e-mail: subodhwagle@gmail. com

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware, USAArea of Concentration: Energy and Environmental Policy

December1996

B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India,Branch: Mechanical Engineering

May 1982

RECENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND AFFILIATIONSProfessor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai October 2007 to Present

Trustee and President, Prayas, Pune, India July 1995 to Present

Core Team Member, Energy Group, Prayas July 1999 to October 2006

Group Coordinator, Resources and Livelihoods Group, Prayas November 2000 to Present

Adjunct Faculty, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy,University of Delaware, USA

May 2003 to Present

Adjunct Faculty, Centre for Technology Alternatives for RuralAreas, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

August 2006 to September2007

Member, Board of Studies, School for Rural Development,Tata Institute of Social Sciences

August 2006 to Present

Member, Steering Committee, Rural Campus, Tata Instituteof Social Sciences

April 2006 to Present

About Prayas and Work at Prayas

Prayas is a registered non-profit organization working for protecting and promoting the broader publicinterests in the sectors of energy, health, resources and livelihoods (or environment anddevelopment), and learning and parenthood. The focus of the organization is on providing servicesand support to disadvantaged sections of society as well as to organizations working for thesesections, in the areas of generation, dissemination, and application of strategically relevantknowledge. The activity portfolio of the organization includes: research, analysis, conceptualization,articulation of conceptual and policy formulations, documentation, publication, public education,advocacy, capability building and training, and knowledge support and facilitation. The organization istrying to enhance its own efficacy by developing new models in the conceptual, organizational, and

strategic spheres.Four independent groups within the organization work in the four sectors mentioned above. The mainfocus of the activities of the Energy Group of Prayas (or PEG) has been on four themes: (i) techno-economic, financial analysis and regulatory intervention, (ii) electricity sector policy analysis andadvocacy for public interest, (iii) capacity building and training of civil society and other actors, (iv)building perspective and knowledge-bases required. PEG has been a pioneering civil society groupactive in the electricity sector. It has many unique attributes, including its comprehensive andconsistent work on key strategic issues, emphasis on broader public interest, its perspective ofpeople-centered governance, and the range of strategies it uses. PEG also has many significant


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achievements to its credit, such as its impact on the Enron controversy, considerable success inregulatory interventions, impact on policy development in the sector, and development andarticulation of a new conceptual perspective. The group consists of four core team members andsome research and support staff. Dr. Wagle is one of the members of the Core Team, who nurturedand developed the group and made significant contribution to its successes. Though most Prayasoutputs carry joint credits, some of the outputs (publications, documents, workshops, andpresentations) in which Dr. Wagle played primary or significant role are listed later.

The Resources and Livelihoods (or ReLi) Group of Prayas has been working in the areas ofdevelopment, environment, and governance and at the perspective, policy, and practice levels. Themain focus is on generating and processing knowledge to create strategically useful knowledge-bases and knowledge-products that are useful, especially, for civil society activists at the state andgrassroots levels. This is often done in collaborative or participatory manner. The knowledge-basesand derived products are then used for conducting down-stream activities aimed at public and mediaeducation, lobbying and advocacy, and at building perspective and capabilities of different stake-holders. Though comparatively young (started in November 2000), the group has been able to createits mark in different areas, such as, (a) perspective and discourse building on alternativedevelopment, (b) advocacy on disaster management and employment guarantee scheme, and (c)sustainable cultivation practices for poor. Dr. Wagle has single-handedly conceived and developedthe ReLi Group of Prayas, which now has fourteen professionals from different disciplines. In the last

six years, Dr. Wagle has led thirteen major research, analysis, and advocacy projects funded byUNDP, the Planning Commission, and some major foundations in diverse areas such as: sustainableagriculture for poor, discourse building on alternative development, analysis of governmentdevelopment schemes, development of planning and governance tools, employment guaranteescheme, disaster management, and land productivity and rights. This work has created about fortymajor knowledge-products, including research reports and papers, analytical reports, policydocuments, and public-education documents.

The main responsibilities handled by Dr. Wagle over the years in Prayas include: (i) research andanalysis, especially at perspective and policy levels, (ii) articulation of various elements of the twoperspectives that evolved from research and actual experience, (iii) conceiving, designing, andguiding research and analysis projects, (iv) strategizing, developing, and providing support forconducting down-stream activities, (v) designing, developing, and conducting capability buildingactivities, (vi) nurturing and mentoring a group of young researchers in the ReLi group.

The particular role Prayas has taken upon itself requires that it uses diverse approaches for outreachand impact. The focus, on most occasions, is on simplifying the knowledge and presenting it often inthe local language, in order to make it amenable to a wide range of sections of society. Sometimes,the focus is on reaching out to and influencing a limited or select group of decision and opinionmakers. Accordingly, instead of academic journals, other types of outreach media are used morefrequently.

About Work at IIT, Bombay

Since August 2006, Dr. Wagle has been working as an Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for TechnologyAlternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT, Bombay on the part-time basis (two or three days a week).His primary responsibility has been to provide assistance and support to the Head, CTARA indeveloping the masters program in technology and development. Dr. Wagle contributed significantly

to conceiving and preparing conceptual documentation for the proposed program as well as topreparation of the broader design and the two-year course calendar for the program. He alsocontributed significantly to the allied activities such as:

(a) organizing and making presentations in the meeting of the associated faculty from the institute,

(b) conceptualization and implementation of the process of obtaining feedback on the programdesign from a range of outside experts and authorities

Apart from this, Dr. Wagle worked on organization of various institute-level activities in order toprovide necessary visibility and acceptance to the proposed program, including:


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(a) Substantive and logistical inputs for planning the Energy Seminar in the Think PolicyConference organized on the occasion of the Pan-IIT Event.

(b) Institute Colloquium on Climate Change by Prof. John Byrne, Director of Center for Energy andEnvironmental Policy, University of Delaware, USA

(c) Organizing an informal group of institute faculty interested in policy issues

An innovative idea of a multi-stakeholder partnership in disaster management in Maharashtra wasconceived and operationalized by Dr. Wagle with involvement of two interdisciplinary centers at IIT,Bombay, JTCDM of TISS, Maharashtra Economic Development Council, Oxfam, and Prayas.

In addition to providing support for research and field activities by other faculty members, Dr. Waglemade significant contribution to writing the Vision Document for CTARA, in preparation to the GoldenJubilee Celebrations of IIT Bombay.

PAST ASSIGNMENTS AND WORK EXPERIENCEAssociate Professor December 1996 to June 1999

Officiating Director

Indian School of Political Economy, Pune, India

May 1998 to June 1999

Major themes for research: Power and Energy Sector Policies in India; Proposals for AlternativeDevelopment in Energy and Water Sectors; and Environmental Struggles in Rural India

Conceiving and organization of workshops, seminars, and training programs

Coordination of Schools public education activities

Research Associate,

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP),University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

September 1992 to May 1994September 1995 to November 1996

Assisted Director, CEEP in advising Working Group III of the United Nations sponsoredIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Analyzed issues of environmental sustainability and

international equity that accompany climate change policy options.

Participated in designing and conducting the training program Certificate in SustainableDevelopment for Managers for mid-career officials from Indian Administrative Service as well asfrom Indian corporate sector and academia.

Assisted Director, CEEP in developing two graduate level courses: Political Economy ofEnvironment as well as Sustainable Development: History, Debate, and Its Future.

Participated in two conferences of National Association of Science, Technology, and Society (USA)

As a doctoral student, undergone four lecture courses related to themes in the area of technology,society, environment, and development.

Doctoral Fellow,

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University ofDelaware, Newark, DE, USA

September 1994 to May 1995

Conducted a field-study for dissertation research in India. Extensively interviewed grassroots-levelactivists working on environment and development issues in the western part of the state ofMaharashtra in India. Studied two development controversies in the area: Saradar Sarovar Project(Narmada Dam) and Enrons Dabhol Power Project.


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Worked in India with a non-profit organization, Prayas, carrying out public interest policy research.Participated in techno-economic analysis of the power purchase agreement and analysis of otherpolicy issues that were raised in the controversy over Enrons power project in Maharashtra, India.

Independent Consultant,

Pune, Maharashtra, India

June 1989 to July 1992

Consultancy and research in the fields of energy, environment, and development. Worked onresearch projects in the areas of rural energy and renewable energy including a project to evaluate awood-gasifier dissemination program in the state of Maharashtra.

Project Coordinator,

Managaon Plantations, Maharashtra, India(A non-governmental, multi-program rural development project)

April 1985 to May 1989

Conceived, designed, and implemented various schemes and projects in the areas of agro-forestry,horticulture, sericulture, animal husbandry, low-cost construction, and low-cost irrigation. Adaptedvarious new techniques and methods developed in laboratories and research centers to actual fieldconditions in order to provide employment to local farmers and tribal youths from surrounding areas

as well as to involve them in dissemination of these new techniques.

Senior Research Assistant,

Center for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas, IndianInstitute of Technology, Bombay, India

April 1984 to March 1985

Assisted in evolving the action plan for the newly established Center.

Worked on establishing formal and informal linkages between the Center and government and non-government field agencies in the coastal area of Maharashtra.

Assisted in research projects including analysis of rural energy consumption survey, evaluation ofIntegrated Rural Energy Program of the Planning Commission, and dissemination of solar dryersthrough voluntary agencies.

Rural Technology Volunteer,

Consortium on Rural Technology, Gandhi PeaceFoundation, New Delhi, India

December 1982 to March 1984

Worked with voluntary agencies on short-term assignments in the fields of social forestry, liftirrigation cooperatives, and industrial water pollution in rural areas in order to obtain direct exposureand first-hand experience of handling problems in technological interventions for development ofrural areas.

Senior Research Assistant,

Center for Rural Development & Appropriate Technology, IndianInstitute of Technology, New Delhi, India

July 1982 to November 1982

Worked with a village community on field-testing and dissemination (demonstration and training) ofefficient LORENA model cook-stoves using firewood.

MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS

The first Alumni Achievement Award from Center for Energy and Environmental Policy,University of Delaware, USA, April 2005


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George Herbert Ryden Prize for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Social Sciencesawarded by the University of Delaware, USA. August 1997

Mark A. Haskell Award awarded by the College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University ofDelaware, for consistently superior performance in the area of political economy, April 1995

Graduate (Doctoral) Fellowship of University of Delaware (1994-1995)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTS

Electricity Sector Policies, Reform, and Regulation

Assessing Infrastructure Reform for the Social Development Content (to be published).

Power Politics at the Mercy of Vested Interests in the book Beyond the Market: The Future of PublicServices, edited by Daniel Chavez Transnational Institute, Amsterdam and Public ServicesInternational Research Unit, London, February 2006

Electricity Sector Reforms in Asia: Experiences and Strategies, edited this compilation of selectedpapers prepared for the Asia Power Sector Reforms Workshop organized jointly by Prayas,Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Focus on Global South (Bangkok), April 2004

A Note on the Discussion Paper on Rural Electrification by Ministry of Power, Government of India,

unpublished note widely circulated in policy and civil society circles, January 2004

The Base Document on the Public Participation Model for Power Sector Reforms in Maharashtra anunpublished document written for internal use for public education and advocacy activities, December2003

Privatization or Democratization: The Key to the Crises in the Electricity Sector: Case of Maharashtraa document published by Prayas, June 2003

Protecting Public Interest through New Regulatory Instruments in the Electricity Sector: A Case Studyof Prayas' Efforts in the State of Maharashtra, India, an unpublished document written for limitedcirculation November 2002

The Reform Process and Regulatory Commissions in the Electricity Sector: Developments inDifferent States of India, edited this compilation of selected papers and presentations made during

the Event on the Power Sector Reforms organized by Prayas and Focus on the Global South,Mumbai, India, October 2001

The Real Challenge in Power Sector Restructuring: Instilling Public Control through TAP Energy forSustainable Development, vol. V, No. 3, pps. 95-102, September 2000

Regaining Rationality through Democratization: A Critical Review of MDBs Power Sector Activities inIndia, the document written as the Country Report for the multi-country MDB Energy Project, June1999

Promoting Public Interest: Civil Society Institutions and the Independent Regulatory Agencies in theElectricity Sector a note submitted to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, 1999

Accountability: The Real Crisis in the Power Sector Left Unaddressed, an unpublished article, May1998

Regulation in the WB-Orissa Model: Cure Worse Than Disease in Economic And Political Weekly,Vol. XXXIII, No. 17, dated April 25, 1998

SEB Privatization: Transcending the Issue of Ownership in the Economic and Political Weekly(October 4, 1997).

Reviewed Papers as a Referee

Rural electrification in India: Is there a case for separate rural tariffs? written for the journal UtilitiesPolicyedited by Dr. Don C. Smith and published from Denver, Colorado, USA, April 2006


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A Decade of Energy Sector Reform in India: A Study of Socio-Economic and EnvironmentalSustainability written for the special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Productionon the Sustainabilityof Energy Sector Reforms in Developing Countries, published by Elsevier and edited by Prof. JamesHaselip of Imperial Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), London, September 2005

Enron Controversy

Restarting Dabhol: Who Will Bear the Costs? And Why? in Economic and Political Weekly, June 18,2005 pp. 2594-2599

The Enron Disaster in India Infrastructure Report 2002published by IDFC and 3i Network, 2003

Battling Enron in India: A Case Study of the Second Phase of the Controversy over Enrons DabholPower Project in India (December 2000 to January 2001) , an unpublished document written forlimited circulation, June 2002

TNCs as Aid Agencies? Enron and the Dabhol Power Plant in The Ecologistvol. 26, No. 4: 179-184July/August 1996

The Enron Story: Controversial Issues and Peoples Struggle, a monograph published by Prayas,Pune, June 1996

Enron Renegotiations: Bungling By the Government in Economic and Political Weekly, vol. xxx no.

49: 3127-28, 9th December 1995Dabhol Project PPA: Structure and Techno-economic Implications in Economic and PoliticalWeekly, vol. XXX, no. 24: 1449-55, 17th June 1995

The Enron Controversy: Techno-Economic Analysis and Policy Implications, a collection of fivepapers published by Prayas, Pune, India, June 1995

Sustainability and Livelihoods Issues

The Long March for Livelihoods: Struggle against the Narmada Dam in India in book series Energyand Environmental Policy, Volume 8edited by John Byrne, Lee Glover, Cecilia Martinez published byTransaction Publications, London, 2002

Energy, Development and Women in the book Nurturing Nature: Women at the Centre of Naturaland Social Regeneration, ed. Chhaya Datar, Earth Care Books, Bombay, 2000

Alternative Development: Models and Issues, a document prepared for the meeting of the NationalAlliance of Peoples Movements, 1999

Environmental Movements in India: A Critique and a Note in Journal of Indian School of PoliticalEconomy, (January - March 1999)

Development Alternative in Institutional and Knowledge Spheres a review article in Journal of IndianSchool of Political Economy, (October-December 1998)

The Political Dynamics of Grassroots Environment-Development Struggles: The Case-Study of theStruggle against the Enron Power Project in the Journal of Indian School of Political Economy,(January - March 1998)

The Political Dynamics of Grassroots Environment-Development Struggles: The Case -Study of theStruggle against the Narmada Dam in the Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, (July -September 1997)

Autonomous Development: A Radical Political Critique of the Conventional Development Paradigma review article in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, (April - June 1997)

Whither Indian Environmentalism? a review article in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy,(January - March 1997)

Distributing Costs of Global Climate Change in IEEE Technology and Society, Spring 1994, pp. 17-24


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Sustainable Development: Some Interpretation, Implications, and Uses, Bulletin of Science,Technology, and Society(vol. 13, no. 6): 314-323. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conferenceof National Association of Science, Technology, and Society at Washington DC in January 1993.

Governance and Citizenship

Direct Public Involvement in Governance: Making Disaster Management Effective, Efficient, andSensitive, unpublished, jointly written paper for the First India Disaster Management Congress, NewDelhi, January 2007.

Disaster Management: New Role for Civil Society Organizations in the Changing Macro-Reality,unpublished, jointly written paper for the First India Disaster Management Congress, New Delhi,January 2007.

Assessing Electricity Sector Reform for the Social Development Content: Using Guidelines fromWorld Bank Literature, unpublished document, August 2006.

Revisiting Good Governance: Asserting Citizens Participation and Politics in Public Services inBeyond the Market: The Future of Public Services, edited by Daniel Chavez, Transnational Institute,Amsterdam and Public Services International Research Unit, London, February 2006.

Ensuring Public Confidence and Ownership of Hydro-Policy: Transparency, Accountability, andParticipation in Policy Making a note prepared for Ministry of Power, Government of India, June 2005

Beyond the State and the Market in special issue of journal Seminar on New Priorities: ASymposium on Social Agenda for India, September 2004

Public Control through Regulation: Role of Civil Society, unpublished paper written for TransnationalInstitute, Amsterdam, December 2002

MAJOR CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS

Conceived and conducted (solely or jointly)

National Workshop on Electricity Act organized jointly by Center for Public Policy of IIM Bangaloreand Prayas at Pune, July 2005

A state-level workshop on the Issues in the Electricity Act organized by Prayas at Pune, June 2005

A workshop for the staff of the World Bank at the Washington D.C. headquarters titled Participationand Transparency: Improving Infrastructure Regulation, April 2005

An international Think-Share Workshop titled Neglected Dimensions of Electricity SectorRestructuring: Equity, Sustainability, Governance, and Institutions organized jointly by Center forPublic Policy of IIM Bangalore and Prayas at Pune, January 2005

A strategy workshop for country representatives of the Climate and Energy Program (Asia andPacific) of WWF at Bangkok, July 2004

A Skill-Share Workshop on Power Sector Reforms for Indonesian NGOs organized jointly byPrayas and WWF (Climate and Energy Program) at Jakarta in September 2003

An Asia-level workshop titled Electricity Sector Reforms in Asia: Experiences and Strategies at

Bangkok organized jointly by Prayas, Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Focus on Global South(Bangkok) in October 2002

A national workshop titled Event on Power Sector Reform in Mumbai organized jointly by Prayasand Focus on Global South (India Chapter) in December 2000

Presentations and Participation in Conferences and Seminars

Making NREGS Work in Maharashtra: Challenges and Future Work presentation made at thenational workshop titled Implementation of NREGA: Experiences and Ways Forward, organized bySociety for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi, 1

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Lesson for NREGS from Maharashtra, the presentation made at the workshop titled FacilitatingNREGA: Responses from Civil Society Groups organized by Oxfam Family organizations, New Delhi,April 2006

Participated in deliberations of the workshop titled Developing Institutions for Public Accountability inUrban Services organized by Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank, New Delhi,February 2005

Presentation titled Democratic Governance: Key to Sector Reforms made in the cluster titled GoodGovernance and Sector Management in the Ministerial Conference on Energy for Development atThe Hague (Netherlands) hosted by the Government of Netherlands, 14th to 16th December 2004(Prayas was one of the three official invitees from civil society)

Participated in deliberations of the International NGO Conference on Energy for Development, atAmsterdam hosted by HIVOS and NSM of the Netherlands, 9th to 11th December 2004

The Prayas Initiative and Accountability Framework presentation made at the workshop titledEnhancing Citizens Voice and Client Power organized by Water and Sanitation Program of theWorld Bank at New Delhi, March 2004.

Comprehensive Strategy for Social Movements for Resources: Combining Rights, Productivity, andCapabilities and Comments on the Thesis Document of the Energy Platform presentations made at

the conference of the Energy Platform created by Latin American NGOs, held at Cartagena,Colombia, September 2003

Presentation commenting on the draft World Bank study report in the workshop entitled ConcludingWorkshop on Study of Power Sector Restructuring and Poor organized by the World Bank, NewDelhi, December 2002

Delivered C. B. Joshi Memorial Lecture of Bombay Geographic Association on Maharashtra PowerSector: Crisis and the Privatization Panacea, October 2002

Development and Democracy: Core Social and Political Concerns presentation made at theconference titled Power Sector Reform and Privatization organized by the World Bank Institute, May2002

Reforms in the Indian Electricity Sector: Resisting the World Bank Model presentation made at the

workshop organized by Both Ends, Amsterdam, August 2000SEB Reforms and Power Sector Regulation: A Civil Society Perspective presentation at theworkshop organized by the Independent Power Producers Association of India, Mumbai, November1999

Destruction of Rural Livelihoods and Marginalization of Rural Women: Role of Energy in theProblems and Prescriptions, the paper presented at the VIII

thNational Conference on Women

Studies (30th May 1998 to 2nd June 1998)

Conducted sessions for the UGC Faculty Refresher Courses organized by Tata Institute of SocialSciences, Mumbai, Departments of Economics and Department of Geography of University ofMumbai, Department of Sociology and Womens Studies Center of University of Pune

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