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Dr. Shahin Khan is an accomplished academician working in the area of environmental and resource economics. She holds doctorate in economics from Manipal University Jaipur, where she was the recipient of prestigious Dr. Ramdas Pai Research Scholarship Award.

She graduated from Sophia Girls College and Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU, Baroda) with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics, respectively. She has presented her research throughout her master’s and doctoral studies at several leading institutions of higher learning, including IIT Roorkee, IIFT Delhi, CURAJ, IIFM Bhopal, and IIM Kashipur. She has written a book on empirical evidence of the environmental Kuznets curve in India. In addition, she has research papers published in journals indexed by SCI and Scopus.

She worked as an assistant professor of economics at many esteemed universities before joining to VSEP, including Parishkar International College (affiliated to Rajasthan University), G. D. Goenka University (Delhi NCR), K.R. Mangalam University (Delhi NCR) and Manipal University Jaipur. While working at GD Goenka University, she earned a Seed Grant Research Award to further her investigation of the perception, attitudes and behavior of households about the recycling of PET plastic bottles.

Her teaching expertise includes mathematical economics, quantitative approaches, game theory, econometrics, and environmental economics, while her research interests include environmental valuation and degrowth.